JeffA:
Rigged elections? Oh behave.
Proven Rigged, court-testable beyond a shadow of reasonable doubt - IF you can get the court time to view the evidence!
If you can’t be sold to - who’s fault is that though?
To someone neutral, I would suggest that in no mathematical sense can more votes be cast to beat someone into second place who in themselves has got more votes than any incumbent seeking re-election in history…
BUT if you allow previously illegal immigrants to have a legal vote, and by decree at that?
You can conjur up as many votes as you need to win any election anywhere in the world that has a connection to the internet to update the data when needed, so the desired candidate to be beaten always JUST loses…
They are trying it in Turkey with Erdogan’s re-election campaign too, but I suspect he’s a better player than Trump so will pull a rabbit out of the hat, and order that all overseas votes be discounted, like Belarus did in their election, widely expected to be won by some woman challenger in exile ffs…
The Rig worked in Brazil though. Didn’t work in Hungary, because Orban’s majority was too high to overtake.
If the Western voting system were NOT “Riggable”, then how come we don’t have a completely different set of people in power right now, and how come no one has changed their name to “None of the Above” to win ballots in this country even?
Has anyone noticed that the “spoiled ballot papers” - don’t seem to leave the electoral returning officer’s presence on the night now?
As soon as the original paper ballot is destroyed, we are led to believe that the electronic impulses that make up the “tabulation” are the only evidence that an election took place… Tamper with that “data” - and you can make up any number you want, that gives the population a “belieable” abeit faked result, where the unpopular candidate somehow “hangs on” when Establishment-Backed, but the popular candidate always “just loses” when they are due for demolition by the powers…
There will come a time when the “None of the Above” have had a bellyfull of it, try to vote to make a difference, realize their votes were looted or deleted, and then can either go quietly into the night, or rise up and make a proper difference, likely because life and death is involved, rather than a decent pay rise, or cheaper bills…