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In reply to the discussion: If you believe Russia hacked our voting machines but didnt change votes, [View all]FakeNoose
(32,633 posts)A lot of the voting machines in use now were programmed during installation as long as 20 years ago. They haven't been reprogrammed so maybe the original software was faulty or somehow gave a slight advantage to the GOP. It's a tiny, ever so slight advantage that has never been noticeable until the 2016 election, when it seems all the voting machines were doing it. Then it did make a difference and it threw the election by flipping small rural counties that nobody was looking at. But enough of them flipped that it changed entire states. And now this is what we have.
Can we blame this on Russian hacking? Maybe not, but somebody wrote the original software and somebody gave the tiny advantage to the rightwingers. Somebody decided to install the machines in most of the counties in every state. Guess which party has been behind the electronic voting machines since Day One? Guess which party has benefitted for the last 20+ years? Guess which party has to cheat in order to win?