"American elections have been some of the freest and fairest in the world.
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"American elections have been some of the freest and fairest in the world. We have never seen widespread voter fraud in a modern election. Republicans are worried, and they should be. If they can’t win fairly, they seem ready to manipulate the system in Trump’s favor. Perhaps this blatant subversion of the most basic right of American citizens, the right to have your vote counted, will help undecided voters decide."
~ Dan Rather
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Godfrey642replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
This is worth boosting
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Human 3500replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @mastodonmigration I think gerrymandering and voter suppression would like to make a statement.
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Rachel Greenhamreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @cruiser Guys. I mean. Guys. Dan especially. The rest of the world is *laughing* at the way your elections are run. Well, we would be laughing if the outcomes aren't globally dangerous.
You put the people who “won” the last election in a given region (by some fucked up counting system) in charge of running the next one. I mean, what the actual....
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Margret Kuarellreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy "the freest and fairest in the world" lol
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Margret Kuarell last edited by
@greensofshade "Some of."
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Margret Kuarellreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy ok, but still: it's not. Yes, some people can vote and you don't have a king (yet ) but that's it.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Rachel Greenham last edited by
@StrangeNoises @cruiser And it's precisely because many of us know that the system has never worked as it claims to work and that a rabid minority has rigged it for some years now to assure minority control that a lot of us are working hard to change those things — by electing the candidate who promises hope for that kind of change. We don't need lectures about how imperfect our system is, when we know that full well. We need support as we seek a way for constructive change.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Human 3500 last edited by
@human3500 @mastodonmigration And I would think Dan Rather knows full well about both of those sordid realities, and qualified his statement about "freest and fairest" with the qualifier "some of" for a very good reason. He's writing his statement very precisely to address the reality of gerrymandering and voter suppression, and gives every sign of being a well-informed and experienced journalist and not an idealistic fool.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Godfrey642 last edited by
@Godfrey642 Thank you. I just boosted. I also see Texas has organized a raid on folks in Frio County that has all the earmarks of being an attempt to intimidate Hispanic voters. State officials are working overtime to suppress Democratic votes, aren't they?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Margret Kuarell last edited by
@greensofshade I think you may be missing the point that Dan Rather is addressing very precisely the Republican claim that American elections have been skewed repeatedly by widespread voter fraud. They have not, in fact. There is absolutely no evidence of that kind of fraud. As to whether they've been free and fair in the sense that they've been free of voter suppression and gerrymandering, all well-informed Americans know they have not.
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Godfrey642replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
OMG. 🤬
That's despicable. How can ppl on the Right not see through this: anything goes so long as we win and get our way...
Mind you should we ever be surprised? That's how the Right has always operated.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Godfrey642 last edited by
@Godfrey642 Always — always operated this way, gaming the system, lying, bullying, employing cruelty.