• ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Re: straight democrat tickets with trump for president. Do you have a source on this? I’d like to read more about it.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      16 hours ago

      Like I said, NOBODY is investigating it, so there is very little except lots of things from lots of sources.

      Here’s something that points to what I’m talking about:

      in the seven swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – there was an inverse trend: the Democratic vote dropped very slightly but held up quite well compared to 2020, but Trump made enough gains to give him the White House. A large part of Democratic campaign spending was focused on the swing states, suggesting that this helped buoy up Democratic support – but not enough to overcome a wave of additional Trump voters.

      In the swing states – Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina – the story was one of increasing Republican votes. About 303 counties had seen larger increases in the Trump vote than any major change in the numbers voting Democrat. Meanwhile, 66 counties saw outsized shrinkage of Democratic votes.

      Swing states: how Democratic vote stayed flat while Republican gains won it for Trump

      So the story in the Swing States was that the Democratic vote stayed strong, while the Trump vote increased…why? What was the reason for the sudden rise in Trump voters in those states? Why weren’t they there in 2016, or 2020? After not voting for him twice, they saw him throw an Insurrection and steal hundreds of documents as thought they’d vote for him for president, even though they were going to continue to vote Democrat for everyone else?

      Florida, which was an evenly split state for decades, is no longer considered a swing state because so many MAGAs moved there, that they now have a 600K lead. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with these states. Their Democratic voter base stayed relatively consistent, but suddenly there were a lot of Trump voters.

      All they had to do was flip less than 1% of the vote, and both Musk and Putin openly contributed their experienced professional hacking teams. Lean on the the Doge Douchebags, and they’ll spew the whole sordid scheme.

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        2 hours ago

        You know, I really wish there was some way, AFTER the election, to see a receipt for what your vote was counted as. If enough people started noticing their choice flipped, I think it’d raise some more obvious alarms.

        Kinda wishful thinking here but y’know…

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          2 hours ago

          Your voting is recorded, but not the actual candidates you voted for. In 2024, there were a lot of anecdotal reports from the swing states of people finding that their ballots had entirely disappeared, which was probably cases of ballots being challenged and tossed out. That’s common in many states. Florida uses it routinely, to challenge votes in Democratic counties, until the vote whittles down to a slight Republican lead, and then they call the race. That’s how both DeSatan and Rick Scott, and other Florida MAGAs, won by very slight fractions of a percent, against far more popular Democrats.

          Vote challenges and dismissals are a major vote suppression tactic in Red states, and the media NEVER covers it.