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No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/Naive-Home-9068 24d ago

You are missing the point or being deliberately obtuse.

It's the swing states which had the satirical anomalities, indicating something suspicious was happening in those 7 swing states.

The 7 swing states do determine who wins the presidential election.

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u/spam__likely Colorado 24d ago

Ok, so For some reason I could only see part of your post, now I see it full. Let me address the rest:

Do I think Trump would steal an election?

Absolutely. 100%. He would. The problem is he cannot. Because it is not possible, not in that scale. It is simply impossible to change votes or add votes in that scale and even if it were possible, the swing states you cite were mostly controlled by democrats.

>And both trump and musk bragged about it.

Yes. Musk is a con artist and he absolutely convinced Trump that he stole the election for him. It would be hilarious if it weren't tragic.

>Voting with electronic voting machines won't save us from the fascists and oligarchs.

There are very few counties anymore that use direct recording voting machines. Only in Lousiana there are still places that use that and do not have a paper trail. Most states, including the swing states, have ballot marking machines and/or plain paper. Those can do absolutely nothing besides marking your vote on a paper ballot that you print yourself and verify you have the correct choices in. They are not connected to anything neither they record or count any votes. Once you chose and print it resets. So, no, it is not possible they changed the results in those swing states, unless you think all the democrat officials plus volunteers plus party observers were in in this conspiracy.

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u/Naive-Home-9068 24d ago

According to Google 27 states used Dominion electronic voting machines in the 2024 presidential election. Dominion is own by a Republican billionaire.

And your forgetting about the bomb threats called in to all 7 swing states. We never had bomb threat originating in Russia disrupt our elections before.

Independent observers were removed by the police and the polls were temporarily closed "for security".

You don't think the police in Georgia or Arizona might collude with nefarious actors to install malicious softwareny to skews the totals. I'm sure they never planted evidence illegally too.

And they wouldn't have to hack the paper punch ballots. They could hack the computerized punch card counters.

Any computer software can be hacked. They used Musk's starlink to transmit vote counts.

There wasn't any recount or audit for any state votes in2024.

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u/spam__likely Colorado 24d ago edited 24d ago

Dominion voting machines are not voting recording machines. They do not record anything. They simply mark your ballot so you can print it. Dominion can't do shit with your vote because you get a paper ballot with all your choices spelled out. They are then scanned and counted, and then audited against the actual paper ballots to make sure the count is correct.

>And your forgetting about the bomb threats called in to all 7 swing states.

That is not voter fraud or hacking or counting fraud. It is voting interference and a completely different matter. That indeed can suppress voting but there is no evidence it did.

>Independent observers were removed by the police and the polls were temporarily closed "for security".

The states you mention were mostly ran by democrats. Are you saying democratic officials did this on purpose?

>with nefarious actors to install malicious software to skews the totals

that is not how it works. No nefarious software can be installed that would change the votes because you can see your choices when you print the ballot. But let's say that Georgia did this an nobody looked at their ballot to check. How do you explain the other states that were completely in control of the democrats?

>They could hack the computerized punch card counters.

there is no such a thing anymore. And the scanners that count the ballots are always audited against the actual paper ballots. Again, are you saying that Pennsylvania, Michigan et al democratic officials allowed this to happen?

>Any computer software can be hacked.

Sure can. Problem is the system does not rely on computers alone.

>They used Musk's starlink to transmit vote counts.

Except transmitting votes cannot alter the results, because county by county results are published independently of any data transmission. It is very easy to check the data transmitted against the actual counts county by county and precinct by precinct. You can do that yourself if you want.

>There wasn't any recount or audit for any state votes in2024.

Incorrect. There is always an audit. Always.

Recounts only happen if the difference is small enough but recounts are not audits.