Reply #146: the machinery of a coup was complex

[ngant17]

I agree that it was technically a coup, but the machines they used were not guns spewing out hot lead again their opponents, it was not so blatant as it might have been done in Latin American dictatorships, the machinery of the coup was less deadly but still effective. Computer rigging, perversions of election laws, dirty tricks, a lot of small gears meshing together to accomplish the same goal - stealing an election to institute a proto-fascist dictatorship.

Can it happen again in the next election? What can be done to prevent the scenario again? Paper ballots seems to be the most logical solution. Low-tech and verifiable. Get the black boxes and secrecy out of public voting!