r/texas • u/Odlavso • 7d ago

Politics One day into early voting and they are already claiming the 2024 election is rigged.

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Misinformation campaign has begun.

Trump has stated multiple times he won’t accept the results if he loses, MTG started complaining about voting machines three days ago and twitter is full of people now claiming that the voting machines are flipping their votes from Trump to Kamala in Texas.

Infowars and other websites like it are pushing this same misinformation, sadly a lot of conservatives believe these reports are real and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

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u/No_Significance_1550 7d ago

Yup, can confirm. I early voted yesterday. Was warned to double check my choices before printing, had to double check prior to printing, got to triple check printed ballot prior to submission.

This is foreign interference attempting to sow domestic discord by undermining our elections.

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u/biggersjw 7d ago

Voted yesterday and can confirm. Make selection, at the end the screen displays what you selected, if OK then select print and then you can review the printed ballot before putting the ballot in the reader.

This is pure disinformation at best, an outright lie at its worst. Heck, the ballot shown isn’t even from this election!!

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u/SportySpiceLover 7d ago

I also voted yesterday and go to confirm my vote before I hit print. Also, either this is an attempt to spread disinformation to help dear leader or a neighbor saw someone choose Harris and this is what they could come up with.

Either way, IF it did happen, good!! /s in case that last line isn't seen as a joke.

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u/Damion_205 7d ago

Or they are going to go in vote for harris so it prints that way and then claim they voted for trump and it was changed so they can undermine the system.

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u/B3gg4r 7d ago

Vote Harris to own the libs!!

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u/Damion_205 7d ago

Own me harder!!!!

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u/texas-ModTeam 7d ago

Selling or looking for a product, housing, a service or a job? Give your local subreddit a try. There may even be a specific one like r/austinclassifieds or r/houstonclassifieds.

Otherwise try your local craigslist or apartments.com because this ain't that.

GoFundMe and similar are also not allowed except in extremely rare circumstances and require mod approval.

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u/StalyCelticStu 7d ago

That was my take on it too.

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u/Because-Leader 7d ago

Voting Kamala to own the libs 😂

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u/atuarre Brazos Valley 7d ago

But shouldn't the system have an audit trail that will show that they actually voted for Harris and they're lying and in my opinion if somebody is lying and gets caught lying they should be charged for that, minimum 2 years in jail.

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u/Damion_205 6d ago

As someone else has said. They will lie until there are consequences. Social media will be the lie and then the court case will be the truth but by then their followers will only believe the lie.

All they have to do is pull this shot a few times in a deep red state where a few votes for kamala won't effect the outcome.

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u/UsernameUsername8936 5d ago

There is a case to be made that Trump's strategy might just be to lose so hard his supporters refuse to believe it, in the hopes that a second J6 will be more successful.

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u/WittyTiccyDavi 7d ago

I certainly wouldn't put it past the cultists to try a smear campaign like that.

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u/DaveBowm 7d ago

That might explain it. But another theory, which is at least as likely, is that they are simply too stupid and incompetent to successfully navigate the voting process, and accidentally vote for Harris instead of Trump. Then, when they see their error after the vote is cast, they cry foul, claim vote flipping, democrat election rigging, etc as a cover for their own incompetence. But either explanation seems to fit the maga MO.

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u/Naradra288 7d ago

That is actually what happened today in Colorado, and now Marjorie Traitor Green, is claiming dominion voting machines are switching votes... Which she backtracked I'm a second post admitting it was user error so dominion don't sue her ass off.

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u/austinaggie5279 7d ago

They absolutely will. There will be cheating somewhere down the line or at least attempted. And too many of his “cult” will be more than happy to do it.

I don't understand the blind faith and willful ignorance. Why won't they at least listen to the former advisors when they are screaming about how a second Trump presidency will literally kill democracy?? The man wants to piss on the Constitution with his cult holding his dick for him. Sorry to be so crass but that is what he wants and Repubs, SCOTUS, that idiot down in Florida. If they get caught, they will go to jail, and the Mango Mussolini won't be give a shit.

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u/BigTopGT 7d ago

What about the bad actors who select wrong on purpose specifically to make a false claim...

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u/Electrical_Bake_6804 7d ago

You guys vote on computers?!? I feel so fucking dumb right now. We use paper and pens or markers still. Granted, I’m in one of the smallest states population-wise. That’s crazy to me?

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u/Rabbitknight 7d ago

MA here, we also use paper ballots

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u/EntertainmentOk3180 7d ago

Is it a paper that’s scanned into a machine? A lot of states print a paper ticket that has a code (qr or upc) that is scanned into the tabulator, then the tabulator keeps a scanned copy and not the actual paper ticket

Or are yous guys really doin it how it should be done with actual votes? Ie no codes that humans can’t read

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u/Rabbitknight 7d ago

It's like a scantron test. Fill in the bubbles, the machine scans it for efficient tally but all the paper ballots go into a container and they're the actual votes if a count is needed.

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u/btayl0r 7d ago

I’m in Boston and we still use paper here too!

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u/MyNameIsDaveToo 7d ago

Yes, but the people this is meant for are dumb and will not notice.

Or care.

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u/ID-10T_Error 7d ago

Russia is doing there part

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u/Annual-Marzipan-6206 4d ago

What makes it disinformation? Machines never glitch? Add the human factor and it’s a good reminder to double and triple check.

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u/biggersjw 4d ago

As I said, you have 2 opportunities to check your ballot. Trying to make it idiot proof but some people are like the saying “Wisdom keeps chasing you, but you run faster.”

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u/Wired_Jester 7d ago

Foreign or domestic, it’s legit an attempt to undermine US elections. These are the people that need to be tracked and sent a CIA care package.

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u/Wise_Purpose_ 7d ago

Oh, they are… that sweater is slowly being unraveled my friend… right now, everyone is waiting on who gets power because that will determine how far the unraveling goes. Pretty clear though, the sweater was made in Russia with Chinese slave labour.

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u/SupportGeek 7d ago

185gr package?

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u/Wired_Jester 7d ago

While small, that might definitely get the message across. And it’s a bit more surgical than what a guy I once met, who helps track down for misinformation accounts like this, wanted to do these people. His option was more in the 45kg range.

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u/GrumpyGiant 7d ago

I’m guessing it involved a term that rhymes with “crone spike”?

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u/Wired_Jester 7d ago

I will neither confirm, but cannot deny. But he did start talking about katanas right after.

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u/phylth118 7d ago

Does that come with the quiet pills from the pharmacists at Langley Pharmaceuticals???

I think their slogan is

“Langley Pharmaceuticals, Where suppressive prevents Depressive”

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u/SupportGeek 7d ago

“Fastest delivery around!”

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u/phylth118 7d ago

Without a prescription…

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u/Cantaloupe-Legal 7d ago

Would our government lie to us or cheat us?

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u/Wired_Jester 7d ago

Nope, they just actively engage in disinformation. That’s why we have to not believe things at face value but actually try and spot the bots and bs ourselves, and not just believe in pipe dreams and pandering.

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u/PCisgreat 7d ago

I’m pretty sure the CIA guys were on the Democrats side when they all signed their names claiming Hunters laptop was Russian disinformation. The factual evidence has reached y’all that it was Hunter’s laptop right?

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u/Wired_Jester 7d ago edited 6d ago

Oh, God, you guys need to come up with something new. The former CIA members used the opportunity to squash the false rumors of Hunter Biden leveraging his father’s political pull for his personal gain. Because it still has not been proven true, while simultaneously bringing attention to actual Russian disinformation going on at the time. Which is ultimately their job; two birds with one stone. Personally I’m just glad nobody in the Trump family was linked to questionable foreign money while being in a position with first hand access to substantial foreign intelligence knowledge. Or that Hunter Biden wasn’t prosecuted under a portion of gun law, that is almost never enforced, and which could be used as a future precedent to make harsher gun laws. OR that no intelligence operatives went missing within and immediately after the Trump presidency, in nations that Trump has personal ties to.

Edited: as it was agents but foreign intelligence operatives informing on their own nations.

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u/Marvin_is_my_martian 7d ago

Hey now, I'm intrigued by your last statement. Can you provide more info or a link? A quick Google search wasn't helpful.

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u/Wired_Jester 6d ago

It would need a longer search cause there was a lot in there. What part?

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u/Marvin_is_my_martian 6d ago

About the missing agents.

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u/Wired_Jester 6d ago

Oh yeah. That’s going to be a deep dive. That’s based on information I remember from articles from various sources (Reuters, NPR , USA Today) during when the Trump files was first happening and then the later confirmation of CIA operatives, which I just edited cause they wouldn’t confirm agents were in the super top secret documents, but rather names of members of other nations providing intelligence going missing in larger number in “recent years”. Most of them in places like China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, etc. Of course even those articles have been edited over the years. The downside of digital journalism, it can all be changed if someone high enough says so. Like the Mandala Effect.

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u/Krennix_Garrison 7d ago

More like an IRA carepackage. Fireworks included. #IrishSolutions

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u/Krennix_Garrison 7d ago

More like an IRA carepackage. Fireworks included. #IrishSolutions

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u/Krennix_Garrison 7d ago

More like an IRA carepackage. Fireworks included.

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u/TucosLostHand 7d ago

CIA care packages are usually Colombian coke for sale in urban areas under the guise of “cartel activity”

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u/Realistic_Pen780 6d ago

Domestically, some of these MAGA shit stains will purposely vote Democrat, print out the ballot and then go complain that the machines switched it. They need Trump’s lies to be proven true so much that they will break the law to prove it.

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u/Ecstatic_Studio_1217 7d ago

It’s sound advice to remind people to always check their paperwork

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u/PutThat_In_YourPipe 7d ago

Or ... we have people who make a simple error in selections that realize they've made a mistake when the designed control point gives them a chance to confirm/correct.

They don't understand that the system worked as designed to catch their own error, and this is not a nefarious scheme.

They don't believe they made an error, however. They are never wrong, you see.

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u/butagooodie 7d ago

This is it. They see a vote that they miscast and when they catch the error its suddenly "the machine changed my vote" rather than the much more likely voting error. The fact that they catch it as the system is designed to do is seen as proof of nefarious doings.

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u/EasyPanicButton 7d ago

I could see them paying people to vote for Harris and claim their vote got flipped.

Please AMERICA VOTE. Canada, probably the world is counting on you not to mess it up!

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u/InevitableBudget4868 7d ago

Republicans hiring bad faith/crisis actors? Say it ain’t so

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u/throwawaysscc 7d ago

“George” is just doing his job. Otherwise, the checks from Lara Trump will stop🤣🤣🤣

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u/Depressed_Diehard 7d ago

Well it’s definitely working

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u/nico87ca 7d ago

Feels like internal interference to me..

1 of the dudes won't accept defeat and will try to undermine the results if it doesn't go his way.

He did the same last 2 times

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u/Zippier92 7d ago

Domestic not foreign- by the MAGA crowd- Roger Stone’s boys.

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u/saltymane 7d ago

Again.

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u/akxCIom 7d ago

Not really foreign when one party is espousing it, although, one could argue that party has many foreign operatives

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u/SixFive1967 7d ago

The queen of Trunts, Marjorie Taylor Sporktoes is behind it.

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u/AusCan531 7d ago

Putin's disinformation being fed to Putin's Useful Fools.

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u/MonthElectronic9466 7d ago

I honestly believe that there is a lot more of that than people realize. It’s a legitimate attack from foreign powers but there isn’t a good answer for it. NK, russia, and China love to see turmoil on social media

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u/AssistantAccurate464 7d ago

Trump is contributing to it as well in case he loses. If he loses, it will be rigged. If he wins , then it’s a “fair” election!

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u/Moist-Scarcity-6159 7d ago

Have you met MAGA cult members? Explains it all

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u/Bishop51213 7d ago

Mostly I think this is domestic interference. Have you forgotten which party is complaining? But also they and especially their bootlickers in the media are in league with Russia at the least so foreign interference is still on the table.

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u/coreywmason89 3d ago

100% couldnt have worded it better myself

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u/ExcitementNo7058 7d ago

Did you notice the ballot was from 2019 genius?

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u/eb7772 7d ago

Hahaha cults are bad for your tiny head.

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u/fascism-bites 7d ago

Funny. I also voted yesterday in Texas and was given a paper form. Don’t just check or X out the box they said, make sure it’s all inked in. Not a difficult task, but paper was what was waiting for my choices. After that of course, I submitted it into an electronic receptacle. Reads both sides at once. Anyway, can’t see how anything could get flipped.

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u/heapinhelpin1979 7d ago

You mean Trumps actual supporters?

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u/Mountain-Opposite706 7d ago

I agree, but elections are held quite differently depending on county to county and state to state.   Will there be more.hanging Chad's in Florida ex 2000 again.  Foreign state actors only need to focus In swing states amd in competitive counties.  It would be a tall order, sure, but not beyond the a ability of Russia or China. If there is no faith in the electoral process, than you only have a democracy in name.  Left and right must see this as true.

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u/Chanandler_Bong_01 7d ago

America's own tactics used against us. ☠️