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Trump officials tried to ban half of U.S. voting machines, citing conspiracy theories (www.straitstimes.com)
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago

Yes, this is the only correct take. Cory Doctorow wrote about this a while ago and its pretty cringe how dems were defending voting machines all of a sudden. They are all broken, insecure and easy to manipulate garbage.

Excerpt from: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/

That's when something very weird happened. A bunch of people who had been skeptical of voting machines since the Brooks Brothers Riot suddenly became history's most ardent defenders of those same garbage voting machines. The cartel of voting machine companies – who had a long track record of using bullshit legal threats to silence their (mostly progressive) critics – were drafted into The Resistance(TM), and anyone who thought voting machines were trash was dismissed as a crazy person who has been totally mypillowpilled:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210203113531/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/03/voting-machines-election-steal-conspiracy-flaws/

There's a name for this: it's called "schismogenesis": when one group of people define themselves in opposition to someone else. If the other team does X, then your team has to oppose X, even if you all liked X until a couple minutes ago:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/18/schizmogenesis/