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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk (newrepublic.com)

submitted 2 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.

Members of the Georgia State Elections Board voted Wednesday to issue a formal letter of reprimand to Musk’s America PAC over the billionaire technocrat’s illegal scheme to get Trump elected. Georgia, a key battleground state in 2024, was the target of aggressive campaigning by Trump’s team.

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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

While I respect your call for evidence, it's not even remotely out of the realm of possibility; known fucking with the voting machines goes back to 2000 and Bush v. Gore.

If you've never read it, the 2004 Vanity Fair exposé The Path to Florida is not paywalled, and while it is quite long it is also the best imaginable use of an hour of your time for anyone who wants to know just how far back this all goes:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/10/florida-election-2000

I will never be able to unsee the negative 16,000 votes for Gore in Volusia County again as long as I live. That's only a "glitch" when the machine is actually doing more than mere tabulating.

And if you ever want to know how a well-born but relatively low-level attorney can go from attorney to federal judge to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in only five years, this will help you understand. Because for every ruling the Supreme Court makes today, we have Bush v. Gore to thank, and the 2000 election that propelled John Roberts from mere attorney to being chief justice of SCOTUS.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It's amazing how few people really understand just how fucked the whole 2000 election situation was.