Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims

Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims

Election experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting.

With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the balance, the post-election “counting window” is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by former US federal government officials.

While the US president’s bid to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in ballots was rejected by the supreme court earlier this month, there is apprehension that Trump and his allies could use the period while votes are counted to amplify unfounded allegations in a bid to challenge results that don’t go their way.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    3·
    3 hours ago

    The anticipation is stressing me out and I don’t even live in the Untied States. I just know something really bad is going to happen. But what will the really bad thing be and when? Will he somehow cancel the midterms altogether? Will civil war break out? Will violence happen during the elections when ICE is standing guard and harassing minorities? Will people die trying to vote? Will the really bad things be after election day? Will he cheat and republicans win wall to wall? Will democrats win wall to wall and then we have a few weeks of thinking everything is going to be fine and then, bam, another Jan 6 style coup? Can we just get whatever it is overwith?

    I also thought really bad things would happen during the world cup, and it wasn’t quite as bad as I was expecting. Is it possible this won’t be as bad as I think? Is it possible the election will end up being really boring?

  • DementedSociety@lemmy.world
    71·
    7 hours ago

    Anyone caught stealing or trying to steal, a US election, with undeniable evidence, should face the strongest penalty for treason, period. Anyone and everyone, all the way up too and including the president of the US. This penalty should be and I believe is death.

    You try to steal a US election, you should be put to death.

    • PodPerson@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Harshest possible penalty, yes, but the state should not be condemning people to death. The human race can do better than that.

      • DementedSociety@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        That is fair, and I’d could even be persuade to agree. However, I believe this is actually the penalty for this type of treason. Please someone correct me if I am wrong or add nuance to my wide paint brush.

        • PodPerson@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Far as I know, in the US it is. I still don’t agree with the death penalty. Plus, I’d rather that person rot in prison for the rest of their life anyway for a seriously heinous crime.

    • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      I’m against the death penalty, but I would agree to prison for life instead

        • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
          2·
          28 minutes ago

          Tbh, I think it would be funny to take all those “self-made pull yourself by your bootstrap” billionaires and give them their own isolated nation with nothing, see what happens

      • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        7 hours ago

        No. You let corruption fester like a cancer, it keeps coming back.

        It needs to be cut out so the rest can heal.

        • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
          21·
          7 hours ago

          Agreed, but executing someone is just ending one of the symptoms, not the source. As long as we have a system based on greed and rewarding it like capitalism, it will keep on creating more corruption. There is also the horrifying possibility that executing him will make him a martyr for his followers

      • LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Prove it.

        I’d love to believe this but every time someone makes this claim they never back it up with hard proof, just suppositions and links to conspiracy sites.

        Then I wonder if it’s just an effort to continue to undermine the electoral system in the US, but from the other side of the political dichotomy.