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In reply to the discussion: Thinking that the WI election was "rigged" sets the stage for losing. [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,587 posts)Just forking over a fat wad of cash is a whole lot easier and less complicated than fiddling with voting machines or tricking voters into showing up at the wrong place or not showing up or whatever. GOPers bought this one fair and square, as we knew they would. Their money allowed them to buy all that mendacious advertising, which is enough to sway a low-information populace whose primary source of "information" is Faux News.
You can prevent election fraud but how do you prevent election purchasing? Citizens United, which, along with Dred Scott and Bush v. Gore, has to be one of the worst, most corrupt and dishonest Supreme Court decisions ever, has made election fraud pretty much unnecessary, even though I'm sure they'll do a bit of it here and there.
The silver lining, if there is one, is that they were forced to spend a lot of money to protect Scott Walker's fiefdom. Unfortunately the pockets of the Koch Brothers seem to be infinitely deep.