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lastlib

(23,224 posts)
1. 366 days.....
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 10:10 AM
Jan 2020

It will take all my strength and stamina, all my courage, and all my faith to endure it. But endure it I will. The fight is on, and fight I WILL!!
To this I pledge my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor.

usaf-vet

(6,181 posts)
7. I hate to repeat myself and become the old man who cried "wolf" to often BUT....
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:16 PM
Jan 2020

Getting out to vote is part of the equation. But we have to realize that foreign powers have a PROVEN way to hack and impact our elections. 2016 case in point.

We know, those of us who care, that the Russian and possibly others are attacking our 2020 election system right now have no way to alter or stop that attack. We as private citizens have no way of knowing exactly what they are doing or how to stop them.

And apparently the GOP leadership is very content with the election system as it seems to be LEANING in their favor.

We have to do more in my opinion to get government action to fend off these Russian attacks.

Here is the simplest fact the "wolf alert" it doesn't do us any good to win elections by turning out 10,000,000 (example), new voters if the Russians are capable of altering/changing/deny access/suppressing/etc 11,000,000 votes.

Remember the same technology that allows investors to take advantage of micro-second of change in a market to make millions. Or guides a missile to hit with pinpoint accuracy a target thousand of miles away. That same technology can analyze in realtime what "changes" needs to be implemented in realtime to ensure a win.

LiberalArkie

(15,715 posts)
6. I just don't see it that way. As long as the 5% are happy like it is, he stays in.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 11:56 AM
Jan 2020

We do not have it in us to have a French or Russian style revolution to change things.

Thekaspervote

(32,762 posts)
9. Maybe your being in such a red state makes you see it that way
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 01:00 PM
Jan 2020

I am not Pollyanna about it, but the numbers look good. Yes, there will be foreign interference, as a voting population were are much wiser than 16

LiberalArkie

(15,715 posts)
10. I just remember the elections back home. Ballot boxes would disappear and then reappear
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:30 PM
Jan 2020

with the correct locks on them and all, the black precincts always were for the liberal republicans but always voted for the VERY racist democrats. When the old mechanical voting machines come into the state I think was when the state elected Win Rockefeller (R) as a republican (L) governor.

NBachers

(17,108 posts)
8. We need disgruntled supporters of candidates not selected to put full support behind our choice.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:38 PM
Jan 2020

Remember Nader versus Gore.

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