this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
45 points (100.0% liked)
Slop.
832 readers
574 users here now
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No bigotry of any kind, including ironic bigotry.
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target federated instances' admins or moderators.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
+ at least some of the voting computers are rigged for sure. There is no fucking way that the entire political apparatus if corrupt at every level but the voting computers are the exception.
No need to rig elections in a system where the bourgeois candidates have a 100% chance of victory.
The real rigging begins with curating public opinion via the bourgeois press, but this is 100% "works as intended" in western systems.
I don't doubt that voting machines have been compromised and used by interested parties to alter counts, but I am skeptical that this would be done at any scale significant enough to swing results because breaking the widespread belief in the system that legitimizes their rule would be more detrimental to their bottom line than getting a marginally less pro capital candidate in office.
There've been people calling out electronic voting machines for security vulnerabilities for just about as long as I've been able to vote. I'm pretty sure most other countries just use paper ballots and those are fine.
Yeah it's often faster too.
They do, and they are. There are better ways of doing it with computers, but we sure as hell don't use any of them throughout the empire. Doing secure, fast, and accurate digital voting is a solved problem.