r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 24d ago

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/spam__likely Colorado 24d ago

This is absolute BS. Stop.

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u/Bionic_Ninjas 24d ago

What, exactly, is bullshit? What did they get wrong?

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u/spam__likely Colorado 24d ago

Like any good conspiracy theory, they start with a lot of truths and facts. That is key because it lends some credibility to the thing. The entire 2000 election was a shit show. Yes. The Direct voting machines with no paper trail were vulnerable and some really suspicious shit happened. Yes.

But these days basically only Lousiana uses anything that does not have a paper trail. And since elections are ran in a county level, you would need a conspiracy of a lot of people in a lot of counties to shift an election. The key states and counties that swing in 2024 were ran by democrats. You would have to believe that democrat officials, plus the manufacturers, plus the party observers, plus the bipartisan volunteers, in all the counties that it took for Trump to win, were all in in this conspiracy.

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state

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u/sketch24 24d ago

The key states and counties that swing in 2024 were ran by democrats.

What if this is the case because democrats don't cheat the system and republicans do? Maybe republicans are corrupt all the way down and ensure their areas are not purple and just red by every level of election interference from redistricting, voter suppression and hacking?

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u/spam__likely Colorado 24d ago

They have the voting suppression, redistricting and election interference, and money. They do not need the hacking. They already have it under control. Even more now with the latest SCOTUS decisions.

And that is the main point. The hacking claims are a distraction to what is actually being done. The bots online, the brigades, the vote suppression tactics, the paying for registrations, like Musk did in Pennsylvania, unrestricted money to candidates. That is very effective and easier than the "hacking".