If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.

Members of the Georgia State Elections Board voted Wednesday to issue a formal letter of reprimand to Musk’s America PAC over the billionaire technocrat’s illegal scheme to get Trump elected. Georgia, a key battleground state in 2024, was the target of aggressive campaigning by Trump’s team.

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
      9·
      5 days ago

      During the run up to the election Trump was holding regular rallies and traveling constantly - then he suddenly stopped and relaxed. I remember thinking the sudden shift was really strange and couldn’t understand why his entire demeanor would change so suddenly.

      In retrospect I believe Musk and the other party leaders sat Trump down and told him he had nothing to worry about. Between Russian propaganda, Musk’s use of Twitter to spread his own Nazi propaganda, and the takeover of the the serious news platforms by oligarchs they knew they had it locked up. When you add in the black-box voting machines sold by companies owned and operated by major Trump donors I don’t think Harris had a chance no matter how people actually voted.

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Someday, in an overhauled America…

        A nationalized open-source voting machine will be needed. A facility builds the devices, inspectors from every single state verify the product before and after it gets shipped out. Each state is free to do unannounced checks, and to share their results with other states and the public.

        Every machine produces a paper receipt for the voter. By using a QR code, the voter can make a digital record for their state and the national verification boards, if they so choose. When the physical receipt is being printed out, the voter can choose to have it laminated, so that they can keep it for a pretty darn long time.

        • Womble@piefed.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 days ago

          Or, just do what most other democracies do and don’t use machines at all. There is nothing about putting an X in a box with a pen and then having them counted by people under observation then leaving the bits of paper in an archive that needs improving. Your country is rich enough that it can afford a few thousand people hours every few years to do some counting.