I watched an interview recently with former CIA Director, John Brennan, who stated that although the CIA and FBI don't get involved in the political arena, they will all do their very best to make sure this upcoming election does NOT fall to corruption from the Republicans. In other words, they will do their best to not allow Trump and his goons to steal the election.
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I watched an interview recently with former CIA Director, John Brennan, who stated that although the CIA and FBI don't get involved in the political arena, they will all do their very best to make sure this upcoming election does NOT fall to corruption from the Republicans. In other words, they will do their best to not allow Trump and his goons to steal the election.
What does that even mean?
You're free to substantiate that claim, of course, considering that would probably make every director and every agent of the CIA and FBI, unhinged and biased.
Not as unhinged as someone who thinks we can't set up an honest election with secret ballots in the US. We've been doing it routinely for centuries.
There have been questions about a number of elections. 2000 was the most recent.
There was no question about the 2016 election, Trump lost by over 3 million votes, but once again, the GOP used the electoral college to get elected, which they have used in the past to get elected. In other words, more people in America did NOT want the GOP to get elected, yet they did.
Indeed. And 2000 was controversial because of in-person ballots. Mail-in would have been an improvement.
I like that we now have the vote by mail option in PA. It has not been without problems. The lawsuit to get the greens off the ballot delayed printing the ballots. I understand the Pittsburgh area has sent the wrong ballots to some people. Hopefully there is time to fix that. The firm my county contracted to do the job listed the ballots as mailed on the 3rd but never mailed them until the 10th. It has finally arrived.
The election of 2000 is no longer (in the reality based world) controversial - Gore took Florida and won the electoral as well as popular vote, the Supreme Court debased itself by taking a Partisan side - both tactically (in scheduling etc) and ideologically (in over-ruling a valid and legitimate Florida Court decision).
On the topic of "packing": We are looking at the confirmation of the third Supreme Court Justice who worked for the Republican Party in that one now universally derided 2000 legal mess - the Partisan legal team from that one Partisan and legally dubious case (people have suggested disbarring some of the lawyers involved) has staffed a third of the United States Supreme Court.
2004 and 2016 were also reversible on the evidence (2016 certainly, 2004 probable) if accurately counted and vote suppression prosecuted. (Kerry probably "wins" the electoral vote, Clinton pretty much landslides - the popular vote by 4 or 5 million, the electoral college reflecting that.)
That's nationally, a cumulative product of the individual Republican-governed States suppressing the vote under a variety of dishonest pretensions, threats, and bribes. It is one of the ordinary and characteristic features of fascist government - the necessity of holding an election as part of the theater of legitimacy, the necessity of preventing an election from registering the majority will or allowing it access to power (fascist governance being by consequence and physical necessity governance by a minority faction - parasitic, therefore smaller, like all criminal familias).
At my State level the holding and vetting of reasonably, statistically, and apparently, honest elections has been routine since WWII at the latest. Since US elections are run by the States, any other State could imitate this one (Minnesota) or another of the more honest ones - they would need to replace their current administrations with non-Republicans, of course.
It's the counting, not the voting, that identifies democratic representative governance.
Extrapolating from the pattern displayed in every single one of the past twenty five US elections: If you keep track, you will find that a statistically significant majority of such "mistakes" were made by Republican Party supporters and benefit the Republican candidate in the campaign most affected. The major media will discuss that pattern within a frame of "bothsides", deride what they will describe as "conspiracy theories", and come to no conclusions or even straightforward descriptions of the sources of these "mistakes".