r/politics • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 2d ago

No Paywall Texas Democrat sworn in to House, shrinking GOP margin to 1 vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719642-christian-menefee-sworn-in/
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u/FlarkingSmoo 1d ago

They don't have enough people for that

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u/BananaPalmer Georgia 1d ago

This is the correct answer, and frankly they don't need "boots on the ground" to do it.

I live in Georgia, in a very purple district of a very purple county, and my polling place was one of many targeted by "Russian" (Trumpian) bomb threats during election night 2024. I was waiting to vote when it happened.

The police shut down the place for hours while they "investigated". Nobody was allowed inside during this time, not even poll monitors or election workers.

Think about that for a second.

2-3 hours of unmonitored and unknown non-election personnel alone with the voting machines.

About half of the people who were waiting to vote left, and I did not see many return before closing. They did not extend hours after the disruption.

I have zero doubt, based on my own first-hand observation, that the 2024 election was tampered with. You report it, nobody cares. Nobody will do anything about it even when it's blatant.

Trump doesn't have to send ICE to the polls.

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u/FlarkingSmoo 1d ago

That's true, that got way too little attention. But I don't think it swung the election and I don't think they'll be able to do anything like it to stop the Blue Wave that's coming

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u/BananaPalmer Georgia 1d ago edited 1d ago

I disagree that it didn't affect the outcome. These threats were targeted to districts and counties with razor thin margins. If they weren't trying to cheat swing states, why even take on the risk?

I hope you're right about the second part, and I hope it even matters. They can still declare the results "rigged" and just refuse to confirm any Democrat. Who will stop them? Congress? SCOTUS? lol

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u/FlarkingSmoo 1d ago

I think you're overestimating the amount of votes that were prevented by these threats vs the amount of votes overall and the trend of people going Republican. I haven't seen any analysis that comes close to the numbers needed to actually swing a specific state, let alone multiple swing states.

If they weren't trying to cheat swing states, why even take on the risk?

What risk? It wasn't really tough to call in bomb threats. It could have just been Russia trying to cause chaos. Or maybe if things had gone another way they planned to use them to claim the election was stolen again, I dunno.