• artyom@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    Well that was…unexpected. Surely the more likely scenario is that they exploit the hack to change the results?

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      6 days ago

      That’s a much more findable paper trail than “holy shit we just found a vulnerability we didn’t know about, that means someone might have cheated so we have to invalidate the results”

      Instead of “whoopsie this thing says I won even though everyone you talk to says they voted against me”

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            5 days ago

            If he cheats, he still leaves the presidency. If he screams cheating, he can weasel a new election and provisory government. He doesn’t care about the party either.

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              Why do you think he still leaves if he cheats? Who’s going to find out, and who’s going to hold him accountable. Even if it’s discovered, he just yells that he’s framed, and if that fails he yells that he had to, and if that fails then he just yells that he’s allowed to, and there’s nothing the government, under his control, is going to do to stop that.

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                  4 days ago

                  First, this is the mid-terms. That doesn’t come into effect for two more years. Second, when has the law stopped him before? I’ve still seen nothing to imply he’s not running again.

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          5 days ago

          Yeah, I wouldn’t put it past him to cheat since he was caught cheating before, but I do believe the reason the Trump admin asked to keep any vulnerabilities under wraps is not so they could exploit them, but so they could delay the announcement of finding them after the results came in and invalidate the results if they ended up losing.

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      6 days ago

      Or they’ll deliberately introduce a hack that appears to benefit the Dems, in order to claim they’ve been cheated.