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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 22 points 11 hours ago

And suddenly these are trusted machines....

[–] Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

What idiot had the idea to have anything related to voting commercialised in the first place?

[–] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 67 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What I can find on scott leiendecker:

The former GOP election official from St Louis is the founder and CEO of exactly one company called KNOWiNK LLC, which “helps election officials run successful elections” and “provides secure and innovative election solutions”. Whatever that means.

KNOWiNK revenue for 2024 is $5,616,000.

While the sale price of Dominion Voting Systems has not been made public, in 2020 the company was valued at $220,000,000.

I’m not a business person, but does this look like a shit ton of outside money from invisible investors is clanking around this deal?

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago
[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, we're boned.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago

Luckily we got all the slurm we could slurm.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 31 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I feel like ownership of these companies is inherently problematic. Pretty much no matter who owns them, there's an incentive to bias the votes somehow.

100% think there's going to be a sharp uptick in Republican "support" now though.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

When we bought 4 years with biden that was truly all we bought. Even if we eeked out a kamala win it would have just been another 4. The democratic party just doesnt have the vision to imagine a world where the elite will truly do anything to implement their dystopian rule.

This is the long game. Remember: the trees you plant today you will never have the privilege of sitting in their shade.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

There is no final defeat. The battle must be fought every election and every day in between

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It was never safe to have electronic voting

Bring back paper voting

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That likely won't be safe either. Trump wants to have soldier stationed at polling places to keep things "safe".

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

There's a substantial difference between distrust of systems that can be tampered with discretely and soldiers forcing people to vote a particular way

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's literally what they're planning on doing. I don't like it.

Paper voting means no more mail-in voting, which makes it a lot harder for democrats to win elections.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 7 hours ago

What's wrong with mail voting? It's still paper

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

There was an idea planted in the head of everyone who had ears to listen back when Snowden exposed the NSA. The years since have just been you coming to terms with it.

If you didnt learn to live in the in-between you are now subjects of the clown kings. Your freedoms are contingent on their mercy.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Is this a distraction from the Epstein files?

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 40 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly at this point the Epstein files are a distraction from the unmitigated advancement of the fascist regime being enacted up on this nation.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 13 hours ago

It was the real 4d chess all along.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

at this point

At every point

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 minutes ago

There was a brief time when the possibility, however small it may have been, was feasible of it incurring material consequences within the system that would have, at the very least, disrupted their plans for a few years but that moment came and went due to feckless bastards, drunk on power, who refused to break decorum and constantly made concessions against the public interest to play nice with the opposition and save face with their corporate donors.

Now the fervor generated by it has been co-opted to serve as a red herring to keep the hungry masses occupied and bickering, waiting for their big gotcha moment while the levers of power grind away what little liberties they had under the previous system.

Yes, previous system. The old system is dead. We are now in the grip of a fascist regime being formed right before our eyes.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

almost all the news coming out is distraction from the files.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 15 hours ago

This is the end game for making the epstein files irrelevant