Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims

Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims

Election experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting.

With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the balance, the post-election “counting window” is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by former US federal government officials.

While the US president’s bid to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in ballots was rejected by the supreme court earlier this month, there is apprehension that Trump and his allies could use the period while votes are counted to amplify unfounded allegations in a bid to challenge results that don’t go their way.

  • DementedSociety@lemmy.world
    131·
    9 days ago

    Anyone caught stealing or trying to steal, a US election, with undeniable evidence, should face the strongest penalty for treason, period. Anyone and everyone, all the way up too and including the president of the US. This penalty should be and I believe is death.

    You try to steal a US election, you should be put to death.

    • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
      61·
      9 days ago

      I’m against the death penalty, but I would agree to prison for life instead

      • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        9 days ago

        No. You let corruption fester like a cancer, it keeps coming back.

        It needs to be cut out so the rest can heal.

        • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
          32·
          9 days ago

          Agreed, but executing someone is just ending one of the symptoms, not the source. As long as we have a system based on greed and rewarding it like capitalism, it will keep on creating more corruption. There is also the horrifying possibility that executing him will make him a martyr for his followers

        • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          Tbh, I think it would be funny to take all those “self-made pull yourself by your bootstrap” billionaires and give them their own isolated nation with nothing, see what happens

    • PodPerson@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      8 days ago

      Harshest possible penalty, yes, but the state should not be condemning people to death. The human race can do better than that.

      • DementedSociety@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 days ago

        That is fair, and I’d could even be persuade to agree. However, I believe this is actually the penalty for this type of treason. Please someone correct me if I am wrong or add nuance to my wide paint brush.

        • PodPerson@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          Far as I know, in the US it is. I still don’t agree with the death penalty. Plus, I’d rather that person rot in prison for the rest of their life anyway for a seriously heinous crime.