It would certainly be ironic if Trump wins and Hillary's team is the one that says the election was rigged, after constantly mocking Trump about saying the election could be rigged because of insecure voting machines these past few weeks.
That said, I'd love nothing more than for this election to finally start a real discussion not just about insecure electronic voting, but also about the whole flawed electoral system in the U.S., including:
* the FPTP system
* the arbitrary thresholds for third-parties
* not having a national election day
* the delegate and superdelegate systems
* caucuses
* electoral college
* gerrymandering
* public funding of elections by individuals with limited amounts of money, as opposed to allow PACs raise as much as they want from rich individuals
* the issue-filled counting of votes, and all the missing registrations and purges of voters
And there are probably more related issues I forgot about. If even Trump winning won't get all the smart people that probably didn't want Trump to win to fight about these issues constantly until the next election, then I don't know what will.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 12.7 ms ] threadThat said, I'd love nothing more than for this election to finally start a real discussion not just about insecure electronic voting, but also about the whole flawed electoral system in the U.S., including:
* the FPTP system
* the arbitrary thresholds for third-parties
* not having a national election day
* the delegate and superdelegate systems
* caucuses
* electoral college
* gerrymandering
* public funding of elections by individuals with limited amounts of money, as opposed to allow PACs raise as much as they want from rich individuals
* the issue-filled counting of votes, and all the missing registrations and purges of voters
And there are probably more related issues I forgot about. If even Trump winning won't get all the smart people that probably didn't want Trump to win to fight about these issues constantly until the next election, then I don't know what will.