Yes, understanding how easily voting systems can be manipulated could destroy faith in the election system. That was the pretext for Facebook’s ban of these links after the 2020 election:
Concerns about election integrity were mainstream news in 2018 and 2019 when the Russian-collusion hoax was still producing headlines. That disappeared after Biden/Harris, who rarely left their homes during the campaign, magically accumulated more than 15 million more votes than Obama/Biden did in their 2012 reelection. Instead, any mention of the massive problems with election security were banned since the “right people” won.
Claiming that the election systems are secure and unhackable is misinformation that prevents the implementation of more reliable systems necessary to “protect democracy”. Until Democrats are willing to restore credibility to the voting systems, they have no basis to claim that they care a whit about democracy and freedom.
The majority of the voting systems in this country are hand marked paper ballots.
The places that one would think of as electronic voting machines create a paper receipt which is verified by the voter as a backup paper trail.
If you see your own voting system using electronic balloting systems… advocate for a a hand marked paper ballot system since it is the most common and the most secure.
Your post is spot on. The only thing which may need clarity is, the democrat party Leadership does not “. . . believed in free speech or the Constitution.”
JWK
Today’s Democrat Party Leadership is infested with Authoritarian Revolutionaries, the same kind that took over Cuba, stole people’s property, and now rule over the people with an iron fist and barrel of a gun!
Democrats need more censorship since they are incapable of any honest defense of their failing policies. The only thing they have left is locking up and silencing any opposing voices.
Like Hillary Clinton, Reich is calling on foreign governments and censors to silence American citizens including Musk: “Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.”
Today’s Democrat Party Leadership is infested with Authoritarian Revolutionaries, the same kind that took over Cuba, stole people’s property, and now rule over the people with an iron fist and barrel of a gun!
Let me know when Democrats will be willing to use the same criteria for judging signatures on mail-in ballots and signatures for getting ballot access.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Carson City District Court, the state party asked the court to invalidate the signatures gathered and prohibit the secretary of state’s office from approving the Green Party from qualifying for the November general election. According to the lawsuit, the Democratic Party reviewed a limited number of signatures via a public records request, and said its initial findings (which did not include a review of signatures submitted in Clark and Washoe counties) indicated that most of the signatures are invalid. Nevada Democrats sue to block Green Party from 2024 ballot - The Nevada Independent
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar (D) issued guidance to counties that local election officials cannot perform on-the-spot signature analysis. Effectively, this means that ballots cannot be rejected because an election official believes the voter’s signature on a ballot envelope does not match the signature on file. Pennsylvania Will No Longer Match Voters' Signatures | Law & Crime
Questions about the security of elections systems were commonly discussed after the 2016 election. I expect that they will hit the headlines again if Trump wins the election. Censorship is all about protecting the official narrative.
“Musk’s X blocks Vance dossier, drawing parallels to Hunter Biden flap
The platform blocked a journalist from sharing a purported research document on the candidate, mirroring its past controversy.”
Hmmmm, while I agree with you, I think I remember when it was still twitter and MAGA was crying about DJT being banned. I see many hypocrites on both sides when it comes to this issue.
Well, I’m pretty sure we can separate the fact that in a thread about some Democrats calling for the federal govt to censor speech and a private entity censoring speech, if what they did was to censor that reporter, are two entirely different things, yes?
Don’t forget about that worn out old hypocrite John Kerry.
“ If you want to know how hostile the global elite are to free speech, look no further than John Kerry’s recent speech to the World Economic Forum.
Rather than extol the benefits of democratic liberty versus dictatorships and oligarchs, Kerry called the First Amendment a “major block” to keeping people from believing the “wrong” things.
The former secretary of state and aide to the Biden-Harris administration told the sympathetic audience:
“You know, there’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have some accountability on facts, etc. But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
“So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.”
Probably not ok. I am for allowing all nonviolent political posts. However, unless the government was feeding X what should be banned or not, it is not comparable to the time the FBI had over eighty agents dedicated to telling Twitter whom to ban.
They have a process to select books for school kids usually run by the school boards to keep things like porn out of the library. Did you want to change that process? Who should choose the books for schools?