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   Julie Webgirl (juliewebgirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 03:09:08 JST Julie Webgirl

   The end of democracy?

   Today??

   Yeah ok, I guess you weren't paying attention 24 years ago... or arguably 112 years ago.

   But yeah, ok, yesterday we had democracy and today we don't. 👍

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     Julie Webgirl (juliewebgirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 03:09:05 JST Julie Webgirl

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Jeff

     @JPZ

     Also read @pluralistic 's article on how the Democratic party chooses their candidates (I'll find the link in a minute). You have zero choice. Voting is such theater.

     Fun story: That happened to be one of the very few years I voted. The guy in charge was Ken on showing off the machine & getting people to use it. I let him show it off to me then I turned to him and asked where the machine spent the night the night before. He gleefully answered "in my living room!" I blinked and...

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     Julie Webgirl (juliewebgirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 03:09:06 JST Julie Webgirl

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     • Jeff

     @JPZ
     Oh wow. Ok...

     - Last time Trump was elected, there was the fear that it would be the last election ever. Yet here we are.

     - Voting machines? Diebold anyone? Voting machines have been in the news with how not secure they are since... 24 years ago.

     And that's not a federal issue. Washington State had voting machines for ONE election (and you could choose to use it or the regular "chad" type vote). Now we have mail-in only. Change it locally if it's a concern (& yes it should be)

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     Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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     Jeff (jpz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 03:09:07 JST Jeff

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     @juliewebgirl I think what "no more democracy" refers to is the possibility of there never being a legit election ever again. Remember when Rudy G went and got the source code for those voting machines? "In theory", any number of D votes could be changed to an R and no one will ever know because it won't look like an irregularaty at the system level. So, if that is true, it doesn't matter if people vote or who they vote for.