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How hard is it to rig an American election, really? (Original Post) Fiendish Thingy 7 hrs ago OP
It can't be that hard. 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024 were all rigged for republicans. Initech 7 hrs ago #1
You're confusing voter suppression with actual manipulation of vote totals Fiendish Thingy 7 hrs ago #2
When Republicans purge millions of voters from voter rolls gab13by13 7 hrs ago #3
Indiscriminate purging is wrong, but its not rigging Fiendish Thingy 7 hrs ago #4
I still wonder how Reagan was able to win 49 of the 50 states in 1980. Initech 7 hrs ago #5
How doesn't it add up? Fiendish Thingy 6 hrs ago #8
They cleaned the plane crash overnight, no investigation, no pictures of the scene questionseverything 6 hrs ago #6
Is this what you're talking about? liberalla 6 hrs ago #7
Excellent video questionseverything 6 hrs ago #10
Ask W? czarjak 6 hrs ago #9

Initech

(108,085 posts)
1. It can't be that hard. 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024 were all rigged for republicans.
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 01:52 PM
7 hrs ago

Actually throw in 1980, 1984, and 1988 for that matter. The GOP has a lot of experience in this field.

Fiendish Thingy

(22,499 posts)
2. You're confusing voter suppression with actual manipulation of vote totals
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 02:07 PM
7 hrs ago

The former has actually happened, while there is no evidence (no, there isn’t) of the latter actually occurring, particularly in the years you mentioned.

gab13by13

(31,693 posts)
3. When Republicans purge millions of voters from voter rolls
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 02:12 PM
7 hrs ago

who are legitimate voters, that's manipulation of vote totals. Give it whatever name, it's criminal.

Having the Supreme Court pick the president is unconstitutional.

Routing votes from Ohio to Tennessee and back again is manipulation of vote totals. The programmer who did this was murdered, or to put it nicely, his small plane crashed.

Fiendish Thingy

(22,499 posts)
4. Indiscriminate purging is wrong, but its not rigging
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 02:26 PM
7 hrs ago

And as wrong as the 2000 SCOTUS ruling- on equal protection grounds- was, it wasn't "picking the president" even if it was putting a thumb on the scale. You yourself have written about other significant factors that impacted that election (Ralph Nader for example) without which there wouldn't have been a SCOTUS intervention at all because there wouldn't have been such a close election.

The other stuff is just kooky nonsense.

Initech

(108,085 posts)
5. I still wonder how Reagan was able to win 49 of the 50 states in 1980.
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 02:34 PM
7 hrs ago

That honestly doesn't seem like it was possible no matter how much you do the math.

Fiendish Thingy

(22,499 posts)
8. How doesn't it add up?
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 03:23 PM
6 hrs ago

He was immensely popular, even Mondale knew he was going to lose- it was one of the reasons he picked Ferraro, so he could at least make history with the first woman in a major party ticket.

I canvassed for Mondale in 84, and my county, Santa Cruz County, was one of only three counties in California that went for Mondale.

Democrats lose elections sometimes, for a myriad of reasons, but rigging isn’t one of them.

questionseverything

(11,688 posts)
6. They cleaned the plane crash overnight, no investigation, no pictures of the scene
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 02:43 PM
6 hrs ago

Velvet revolution did an interview with his widow and she went to the crash site and found a mess not the investigation we would expect, but his blackberry was gone

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