Seems like things are lining up to completely screw over free and fair elections. I know you believe we will have them again in 2 years but this regime is breaking shit at a breakneck pace. What are the options for keeping elections fair?
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apr 12, 2025, 2:49 am • 2 0 • view
I’d never be so flippant about a very focused bunch of criminals whose life purpose right now is the destruction of this country. Votes and elections espec. Seems since April 5th, the country sat back into their recliners. Weve gotta stay in the streets until it’s DONE. DONE. Regime removed.
apr 12, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... save-act-voter-suppression-law/ No. There is so much flooding the zone but this bill can cut millions from voter’s roles-women who changed names after married is HUGE. This happened yesterday. And it’s dangerous and real.
apr 12, 2025, 2:15 am • 7 0 • view
It has to pass the Senate too. Senate Dems will filibuster it. I'm very glad the filibuster is still available.
apr 12, 2025, 5:36 am • 4 0 • view
Can they? Rules have been changed mid sentence to pass huge bills. I don’t believe the Senate rules apply much anymore. Or any other rules. I’m aware of the filibuster. Yet, I don’t trust one thing they’re doing anymore. Neither should you or anybody else. This Regime has to go. 1st in our history.
apr 12, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
The filibuster is still in force. If Senate Dems don't use it to stop the so-called SAVE Act, many will lose their jobs to voter suppression from that vile bill. They'd also have to face an infuriated Dem base, who'd likely support primary challenges to those seen as disloyal.
apr 12, 2025, 6:17 am • 3 0 • view
I’m actually more confident in free and fair elections after Musk’s money and propaganda campaign failed to matter in Wisconsin. They can only steal an election if we let them. Our system isn’t designed to be easily manipulated.
apr 12, 2025, 1:46 am • 2,080 195 • view
Yet they are manipulating everything in the system!
apr 12, 2025, 2:07 am • 6 0 • view
Voter suppression. Like what just went down in N Carolina.
apr 12, 2025, 1:55 am • 8 0 • view
And SAVE Act - how many women will know they have to have certified copies of marriage cert as well as birth cert if this sh*t passes? And if they've been married more than once (or divorced, widowed, etc)?
apr 12, 2025, 3:18 am • 3 1 • view
Per SAVE, marriage certificates are not an accepted form of ID. So women who have changed their name are just out.
apr 12, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
SAVE Act isn't going to make it through the senate, it needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster and that ain't happening without defections from dems and independents and there's no way they'll vote for that bill.
apr 12, 2025, 7:52 am • 2 0 • view
I pray you’re correct.
apr 12, 2025, 1:48 am • 1 0 • view
And the SAVE Act, if passed, will help us have free and fair elections? We have the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 in place and every state has a similar law.
apr 12, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
We need to win elections outside the recount margin. That's going to mean doing proper outreach, listening to people genuinely, and fundraising for ads.
apr 12, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
Bannon just guaranteed Trump will run and win a third term on Bill Maher.
apr 12, 2025, 3:04 am • 4 0 • view
I don't think trump will live that long.
apr 12, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view
I don’t believe anything that Steve Bannon says and I don’t think anyone else should.
apr 12, 2025, 3:39 am • 6 0 • view
Trump is 78 years old and in dire health. A dirt nap is more probable than him getting another election.
apr 12, 2025, 4:18 am • 2 0 • view
If so happens, then this dirt nap will have been put in effect by his own ilk.
apr 12, 2025, 5:09 am • 0 0 • view
You know he’ll love to see 90 or something just to spite us
apr 12, 2025, 5:32 am • 1 0 • view
I want him gone, any way possible. Shit, China could send an assassin at this point, and I would just send Xi a Thank You card.
apr 12, 2025, 11:54 am • 3 0 • view
He guaranteed the 2024 win too and I thought Brannon was nuts. Bannon said they have a team working on the legality. Maher just kind of rolled his eyes.
apr 12, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
You should listen to them, they are trying another trump term by any means, they stole 2024 from Harris and will install trump again in 2028 if people aren’t careful.
apr 13, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
I'm more concerned about voter suppression and endless voter challenges being upheld by GOP packed partisan courts, like we are experiencing now in North Carolina, than actual manipulation of vote totals.
apr 12, 2025, 1:56 am • 21 2 • view
And the right-wing propaganda machine that is quite successful in convincing the Rubes that Felon47 is God sent!
apr 12, 2025, 2:28 am • 4 1 • view
Me, too.
apr 12, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
WI was proof that Money does not vote. People do. Folks need to show up! Compared to 2020, in 2024 Votes for GOP ⬆️ by 4% Votes for Dems ⬇️ by 8%
apr 12, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
You're not worried about the SAVE act, potentially taking away voting rights from millions of women and native Americans?
apr 12, 2025, 7:14 am • 3 0 • view
SAVE Act is highly unlikely to pass the senate as it would require 60 votes to overcome a filibuster and that would require defections from independents and/or dems to meet that number and that ain't gonna happen.
apr 12, 2025, 7:50 am • 4 0 • view
Good to know.
apr 12, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
And yet….
apr 12, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't share your confidence but hope you are right.
apr 12, 2025, 3:43 am • 3 0 • view
Hi so too, but I’m concerned our voting system will be manipulated by Musk
apr 12, 2025, 1:49 am • 8 0 • view
*I do too,… ((ugh))
apr 12, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
@electiontruth.bsky.social
apr 12, 2025, 7:49 am • 1 0 • view
But wasn’t our system designed by normal, serious people?
apr 12, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
Hope you're right. Bad day, feeling very low, going to take a couple days away and rejuvenate my soul in nature. Thanks for all you do!
apr 12, 2025, 4:55 am • 2 0 • view
What about North Carolina?
apr 12, 2025, 1:54 am • 2 0 • view
what about it?
apr 12, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
North Carolina seems to be in the process of overturning votes in order to change the results of their most recent Justice's election, or as someone else wrote, they are "changing the rules of the game after it's been played." (With apologies to the author; I fail to remember which article it was.)
apr 12, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
actually things haven't gone Griffin's way in NC as he wanted the votes completely thrown out altogether but the courts didn't agree with him, some ballots are having to be cured to be counted which isn't great but it's still a far better outcome then many were expecting.
apr 13, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
There is the save bill that is blatant voter suppression. Call your rep! This is where they are trying to keep voters from voting.
apr 12, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
You must be kidding.
apr 12, 2025, 4:28 am • 0 0 • view
Remember Vanky's trademark for, among other things, voting machines, granted to her by China? That was so odd that one wonders how that might be put to use in a nefarious manner.
apr 12, 2025, 3:24 pm • 7 0 • view
Donald isn't leaving office ever unless he dies, don't forget that.
apr 12, 2025, 7:38 am • 2 0 • view
Angry, could you do a deep dive into this. Most people I know don’t believe this.
apr 14, 2025, 2:16 pm • 2 0 • view
They just stole one in NC.
apr 12, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I hope you're right. It does make me feel better to hear you say that.
apr 12, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
I hope you are right and I'm overreacting.
apr 12, 2025, 1:47 am • 156 1 • view
For what little it's worth, I don't think you're overreacting at all. I think we have to assume the absolute worse from these people and if they can find a way to cheat, they will. I suppose that's why they're going to such lengths to limit people's right to vote.
apr 12, 2025, 2:49 am • 3 0 • view
There’s a lot that keeps me up at night. This is right at the top of the list. I’m not saying Angry is wrong. I’m just saying that this keeps me up.
apr 12, 2025, 2:18 am • 69 0 • view
Same...I'll always remember Musk saying, "Computers are easy to Hack."
apr 12, 2025, 2:54 am • 60 0 • view
And X saying "They'll never know, they'll never know"
apr 12, 2025, 7:11 am • 25 0 • view
@electiontruth.bsky.social
apr 12, 2025, 7:47 am • 2 0 • view
And Trumps words on that too. I am convinced it was a confession.
apr 12, 2025, 3:40 am • 15 0 • view
Yeah, I wish I had the confidence that Angry has that we will have elections in 2026. Seeing what this orange madman is capable of doing and that no one seems able to stop him, it is hard to see how elections will happen in 2026. 😠😡
apr 12, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
I was told I was overreacting in 2015 about Roe…
apr 12, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t think you’re overreacting.
apr 12, 2025, 2:59 am • 1 0 • view
If they make it nearly impossible for a large amount of women and trans and lower income people to register to vote, we truly ARE screwed. Plus who knows what DOGE hackers have been doing and complicit Republicans across the country. I think our elections are screwed now.
apr 12, 2025, 2:33 am • 8 0 • view
no they're not, giving up now means they've already won.
apr 12, 2025, 7:51 am • 3 0 • view
Even with BS like SAVE?
apr 12, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
SAVE will never make it out of the Senate.
apr 12, 2025, 7:54 am • 0 0 • view
Voters are easily manipulated. See current POTUS who fomented a coup, was convicted of a felony and held liable for defaming the woman he raped…yet still was reelected on a bed of lies journalists lapped up and was buttressed by voter suppression techniques.
apr 12, 2025, 3:46 am • 3 0 • view
There's a lot of evidence that voter suppression and states' restrictive election laws make US elections vulnerable. Greg Palast, a forensic economist and data journalist, studied voter suppression in the lead up to the 2024 election. Here's the numbers: orlandoadvocate.com/trump-lost-v...
apr 12, 2025, 3:04 am • 12 7 • view
and @electiontruth.bsky.social
apr 12, 2025, 7:49 am • 2 0 • view
But he just declares fake emergencies to claim dictatorial power—“legally.” He can declare an emergency and cancel elections. If he cannot, why not? Who will stop him? Is anyone challenging the fake emergencies in court right now?
apr 12, 2025, 12:04 pm • 18 1 • view
Let Orange skidmark declare an emergency - it is an emergency, he is the emergency - the sooner this all falls apart and burns, the sooner reason can prevail, criminality can be halted, the leaders and enablers deposed, jailed, or dealt with appropriately given a revolution, and sanity can return.
apr 12, 2025, 12:26 pm • 8 0 • view
If nobody is legally challenging the current emergency declarations—and Congress is doing nothing—I don’t see how any of this can be dealt with.
apr 12, 2025, 12:28 pm • 11 0 • view
The People - it's America's last chance. Sorry, but we are living history right now, and the future of humanity, democracy, rights, rule of law and the Common Good depend on a long, drawn out but determined and necessary #hotsummerinwashington
apr 12, 2025, 12:35 pm • 7 1 • view
Wish I could remember where but I read that isn’t as easy as it sounds. Let me know if you get that answer 😊
apr 12, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 0 • view
True that it's imperative that we get out to vote, but I fear they are going to make it difficult for some, especially women, to vote.
apr 12, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
They can try. I don’t see women allowing it to stop us tho ✊🏼🩵🗳️
apr 12, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
good point, free & fair elections can happn as proven by musk's 'failure' in wisconsin. i wonder if musk will ever regret his joined-to-the-hip thing w/trump? since musk needs love & acceptance so bad, & now has to wear a bullet proof vest & is losing tons of money & reputation, will he quit Dump?
apr 12, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
What about the North Carolina ballot checks??
apr 12, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 12, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
One word: Starlink
jul 4, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
To win next election Democrats should offer administrative and financial support to women who are forced to re-ID to vote @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @barackobama.bsky.social
apr 12, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
But the russians have done so; 2 out of the last 3 elections and successfully gotten Anus Tangerinus elected president
apr 12, 2025, 4:39 am • 4 0 • view
Same thing happened in Calif when Michael Huffington tried to buy the governorship.
apr 12, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
It’s the reporting I’m concerned with.
apr 12, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
ive worked a few out of curiosity. the people are dedicated but the system itself is old and clunky. like, you wouldnt want voting system tech providing cybersecurity protection for your bank account. agile, it is not. its „robust“ in a narrow and lobbied kind of way.
apr 12, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
It's not. Study Austrian or German election systems. They may be slightly cumbersome with no machines BUT they are watertight. Paper trail everywhere. Manipulation would require a large number of people from different parties + officials to conspire.
apr 12, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
my own response here regarding local would be tl;dr - even for myself. but thank you for the international perspective.
apr 12, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
He stole the 2024 election, let’s not kid ourselves here. They will do it again.
apr 13, 2025, 1:18 am • 1 0 • view
Given their excitement over the SAVE Act, I really hope the Senate blocks it
apr 12, 2025, 3:50 am • 3 0 • view
they need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster and they ain't getting those without defections from Dems and Independents which ain't happening.
apr 12, 2025, 7:55 am • 3 0 • view
Read Greg Palast
apr 15, 2025, 9:13 am • 0 0 • view
I think the fact that women’s right to vote will be impacted by the SAVE act changes the calculus on having free and fair elections. If they can keep us from voting getting a victory will be smooth sailing they won’t even need Musk.
apr 12, 2025, 4:34 am • 3 0 • view
Also young people's right to vote for the first time; it's hard enough to get them to register
apr 12, 2025, 4:49 am • 3 0 • view
Yup. It was a precision attack on the block of voters who they don’t get.
apr 12, 2025, 4:50 am • 2 0 • view
SAVE Act isn't going to pass the senate though, it needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
apr 12, 2025, 7:52 am • 0 0 • view
I think we will find that it will. They need just 7 more votes and we already saw some democrats vote for it in the House. I think we could absolutely see it pass in the Senate.
apr 12, 2025, 3:46 pm • 2 0 • view
they were DINOs though and I don't see any dems in the senate that are like that, I think it's highly unlikely to pass and so does every article i've read that talked about the bill.
apr 12, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I flew from South Africa (expat)to vote for Susan Crawford. They didn’t need my vote but I wasn’t going to take the chance!
apr 14, 2025, 7:20 pm • 38 0 • view
💙💙💙💙💙💙
apr 15, 2025, 10:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm happy musk wasn't able to buy that election. But I don't necessarily think we'll have another free and fair election. The GOP learns from all of their setbacks.
apr 12, 2025, 10:18 pm • 19 2 • view
He bought the Presidency so WI had heads up.
apr 13, 2025, 1:50 am • 4 0 • view
Dems wouldn't be able to do anything even if they tried.
apr 12, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
Say more! I need mega reassurance on this subject.
apr 12, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope you're right. I feel like the last election was a choice between continuing democracy or having a criminal fascist King and we chose the king
apr 12, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
I just worry about violence from his cult.
apr 12, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
Are we sure Musk didn’t steal the election in November? Just asking. 🤔
apr 13, 2025, 4:27 am • 27 0 • view
All five swing states? All of them??
apr 13, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Many suspect so
apr 13, 2025, 4:42 pm • 8 0 • view
Or one could also surmise that increased scrutiny of potential hacking led Musk to not try it in Wisconsin this time, for fear of getting caught and shedding light on his technique for his perfect hack job in November
apr 12, 2025, 2:47 pm • 29 1 • view
🎯
apr 12, 2025, 2:54 pm • 6 0 • view
I am afraid this kind of positivity fails us again and again. It’s like Merrick Garland and Mueller will do something. Nope.
apr 12, 2025, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
get lost doomer, Garland did plenty spare me the whining Alex Jones.
apr 12, 2025, 7:53 am • 1 0 • view
Not if they manage to pass the SAVE act
apr 12, 2025, 2:16 am • 2 0 • view
never gonna happen, it needs 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster which would require defections from dems and independents and that ain't happening.
apr 12, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
The Republicans might get rid of the filibuster if Trump asked them to
apr 12, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
and the GOP have so far not been willing to risk getting rid of the filibuster out of fear it'll be weaponized against them once they lose power and I don't expect that to change.
apr 12, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I hope you're right, but I wouldn't put anything past them at the moment
apr 12, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
if they did it would bite them in the ass when we inevitably won mid-terms, even if the act passes it's actually far more likely to hurt conservative women(as they are far more likely to change their names when they get married as opposed to liberal women who are more independent thinking).
apr 12, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I heard today it takes 60 votes to pass the Save Act in the Senate, is that correct?
apr 12, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
Not exactly - it takes 60 votes to end a Dem filibuster to bring a bill to a vote (assuming Dems filibuster). The vote itself only needs a majority. Interestingly, the filibuster is just a rule that could be removed by majority vote though that’s unlikely to happen (that’s the “nuclear” option).
apr 12, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you for taking the time to explain. I thought it was a majority, but felt relief when I heard 60 votes. I should really be studying all the inner workings of passing these catastrophic bills! I have slightly above average knowledge of Congress, but learn a lot when I ask questions!
apr 12, 2025, 2:58 am • 2 0 • view
Every peaceful protest in modern times that has reached 3.5% of the population has accomplished all of its goals. Every single one. Related fun fact, 17% of the country is on Social Security. They are one wrong move away from triggering a tsunami of protesters. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
apr 12, 2025, 2:35 am • 9 1 • view
I don't believe we'll have fair elections. This shit is happening too fast.
apr 12, 2025, 2:29 am • 3 1 • view
I don't believe we've had fair elections, especially with Hillary and Kamala.
apr 12, 2025, 3:59 am • 2 0 • view
apr 12, 2025, 3:50 pm • 2 0 • view
@electiontruth.bsky.social just posted a Audit Advocacy Toolkit for paper voting records on their website electiontruthalliance.org/audit-advoca...
apr 13, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view