WRT your answer to my Ogham question on Sunday, I've been thinking about it, and I arrived at the conclusion that negative "Harvest" answer doesn't rule out election cheating/ tampering if this cheating and tampering has become such a systemic and normalized thing that it is essentially an integral part of the process now. I am inclined to think that in the 2016 election and the ones before that, cheating was certainly present and often-utilized, but it was less systemic and more a spotty "here and there" thing used by both parties whenever they felt they had something to lose.
2016, however, triggered a major "uh-oh" moment, and the elections since then have been characterized by a much more systemic form of cheating/ tampering. I now believe that even the 2018 "blue wave" would have merely been a "blue ripple" had the new election-tampering "magic" not been worked upon the actual results of that election. It's interesting to note that even with this systemic tampering changing the results, the substantial Democratic majority in the house achieved in 2018 has since been whittled down to a bare Republican majority for next year. But the fact that every Democratic incumbent senator and governor except for the Governor of Nevada and perhaps the senator in Georgia, with the Democrats retaining their just-barely white-knuckle grip on the senate (this effectively prevents Biden-Harris from any possibility of impeachment), should really be a red flag given the intensity of voter discontent and disdain that we all know is out there right now.
Poll-workers blatantly examining your ballot after you submit is something that would never happen in Wisconsin. In every election in which I have voted here, I was the only one who saw what was filled in on my ballot until the time came to count it.
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Date: 2022-11-19 11:16 am (UTC)2016, however, triggered a major "uh-oh" moment, and the elections since then have been characterized by a much more systemic form of cheating/ tampering. I now believe that even the 2018 "blue wave" would have merely been a "blue ripple" had the new election-tampering "magic" not been worked upon the actual results of that election. It's interesting to note that even with this systemic tampering changing the results, the substantial Democratic majority in the house achieved in 2018 has since been whittled down to a bare Republican majority for next year. But the fact that every Democratic incumbent senator and governor except for the Governor of Nevada and perhaps the senator in Georgia, with the Democrats retaining their just-barely white-knuckle grip on the senate (this effectively prevents Biden-Harris from any possibility of impeachment), should really be a red flag given the intensity of voter discontent and disdain that we all know is out there right now.
Poll-workers blatantly examining your ballot after you submit is something that would never happen in Wisconsin. In every election in which I have voted here, I was the only one who saw what was filled in on my ballot until the time came to count it.