Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIf Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?message-squaremessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1245arrow-down125
arrow-up1220arrow-down1message-squareIf Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square110fedilink
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoHow is trust involved in that process?
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoCan you prove that your vote was counted and that the number of votes for your candidate went up by one as a result? If you can’t prove it, then it’s based on trust.
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s on the level of “everything could be made up to fool me” or matrix kind of stuff. You can simply be a poll worker yourself.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoHardly. Historically there has been a lot of cheating in elections. Look at Chicago up to the 1970s. Election fraud was common there. https://www.chicagotribune.com/1973/05/08/how-the-chicago-tribune-exposed-city-vote-fraud-in-1972-and-won-a-pulitzer-prize/ Nobody can prove that there’s less cheating in Chicago elections today than in the 1970s, but people trust that it’s more honest.
How is trust involved in that process?
Can you prove that your vote was counted and that the number of votes for your candidate went up by one as a result? If you can’t prove it, then it’s based on trust.
That’s on the level of “everything could be made up to fool me” or matrix kind of stuff. You can simply be a poll worker yourself.
Hardly. Historically there has been a lot of cheating in elections. Look at Chicago up to the 1970s. Election fraud was common there.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1973/05/08/how-the-chicago-tribune-exposed-city-vote-fraud-in-1972-and-won-a-pulitzer-prize/
Nobody can prove that there’s less cheating in Chicago elections today than in the 1970s, but people trust that it’s more honest.