Comment on If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?
Yes, and again, it’s all based on trust.
How is trust involved in that process?
Can you prove that your vote was counted and that the number of votes for your candidate went up by one as a result? If you can’t prove it, then it’s based on trust.
That’s on the level of “everything could be made up to fool me” or matrix kind of stuff. You can simply be a poll worker yourself.
Hardly. Historically there has been a lot of cheating in elections. Look at Chicago up to the 1970s. Election fraud was common there.
chicagotribune.com/…/how-the-chicago-tribune-expo…
Nobody can prove that there’s less cheating in Chicago elections today than in the 1970s, but people trust that it’s more honest.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is trust involved in that process?
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Can you prove that your vote was counted and that the number of votes for your candidate went up by one as a result? If you can’t prove it, then it’s based on trust.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s on the level of “everything could be made up to fool me” or matrix kind of stuff. You can simply be a poll worker yourself.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hardly. Historically there has been a lot of cheating in elections. Look at Chicago up to the 1970s. Election fraud was common there.
chicagotribune.com/…/how-the-chicago-tribune-expo…
Nobody can prove that there’s less cheating in Chicago elections today than in the 1970s, but people trust that it’s more honest.