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Cake day: September 5th, 2024

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  • Since this isn’t some super serious scenario I am trying to iron out all the details on at least use your imagination a little bit. Re-running the whole election? no, and not what I suggested. Re-running the presidential election, one ballot for a federal office, why do the states need to be involved much at all? I mean if we’re doing something drastic like this it isn’t like we would still use the electoral college system.



  • aeischeid@lemmy.mlOPtopolitics @lemmy.world"We" didn't vote for this
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    3 days ago

    Because of the way Electoral College works especially, but many other factors contribute to apathetic non-voting behavior. Potential voters feel their vote literally doesn’t matter and statistically and practically speaking they are not wrong. Dismissing all of that by saying “non-voters also chose this” outcome is naive and shortsighted and is in my mind taking the side of injustice.




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    3 days ago

    Never said it was stolen. if you have some counter to this “That between massive disinformation campaigns by enemies both foreign and domestic, voter suppression, as well as many other factors, the will of the people can’t be discerned from our recent presidential election.” I’d be interested to hear it.

    I admit by that same logic Biden, Trump or other past winners may also be invalid, but that being true of past elections, doesn’t make it not true about this one.