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On election night, as the results looked to be in Trump’s favor, the baseless conspiracy theories about fraud began tapering off.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 74 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Given their penchant for projection, has anyone considered that the fraud was coming from inside the house?

I believe we have one of the most secure elections in the world. I don't believe in conspiratorial bullshit. I'm just saying, anything the Republicans accuse others with is frankly evidence that they are doing it themselves.

They tell me immigrants are eating pets? Yeah I'm going to say there's definitely a non-zero chance that republicans are out there picking up roadkill cats and dogs. I mean Kennedy has probably done that 100 times himself.

So if the Republicans accuse Democrats of creating millions of fake votes I doubt it's possible to do, but let's double check anyway because now they've made me suspicious.

[–] D1G17AL@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They literally had their supporters burn drop-off ballot boxes and destroy ballots. They literally intimidated other voters. They harassed poll workers and volunteers whose entire purpose is to ensure everyone who is eligible to vote has everything they need in order to do so. Yet no one is batting a fucking eye. THESE FUCKERS STOLE THE ELECTION. 15 million less votes than what Biden got and Trump got about the same as he did when he ran before. This stinks of interference.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

I don't think that the physical interference would have been enough to turn this one. The interference in the media/social media however was definitely the root cause to this. Along with Democrats shifting more right than they have in decades

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can we also consider that intentionally making it harder to vote in Democrat leaning counties in otherwise Republican States is electoral fraud? Because it kinda is.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

If you remove the word kinda, your comment becomes true

[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I believe we have one of the most secure elections in the world.

That's unfortunate.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's very true. Voter fraud is statistically non-existent here.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know this to be true, and I am very angry at the mistakes the Dems made in this campaign. But 15 million less Democrat voters? That seems like a LOT of people deciding to stay home. If you told me Jill Stein got 15 million votes, I'd find that easier to believe than 15 million just stayed home compared to 2020.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

With record turnout out early voting. Don’t forget about that. The news were throwing that around a week before.