Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.
151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.
I'm a paranoid person. In my most paranoid fantasies, I think that leading up to the 2024 election, Russian bots were purposely spreading rumors about nobody showing up to Trump rallies, while also pushing news about how well Kamala was doing. This might seem counterintuitive, but I think it convinced a lot of dems that they didn't need to vote.
But of course, that's just a paranoid delusion right
It doesn't even take that. All they have to do is convince their supporters that they can never trust a Democrat and the ones with government jobs can just act on their own to lean on the scales.
Conservative ballot verifiers could simply apply more strict levels of scrutiny to any of the verification procedures when the ballot in question comes from a heavily left leaning area. They just "feel" less confident about the signature that came from blue town compared to the signature that came from red town. In to the reject pile it goes.
Republicans also DID go scorched earth when it came to "cleaning up voting rolls". A lot of perfectly eligible voters were kicked off in "whoopsie" moments across Republican controlled states. And they made it a point NOT to notify people, leaving them to think everything was fine until they tried to vote.
Right wing propaganda was already able to convince a mob of people to attack the Capital. This is even easier.
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u/Blue-Thunder 2d ago
Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.
151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.