Riffing on the previous, more old-time religion:
The rigged machines myth is not only distracting, but harms the effort to get out the vote. Conservative groups have been promoting vote suppression tactics for a reason: votes count. In Ohio, for instance, despite the Republican Party’s best efforts to restrict early voting hours, voter turnout is on pace to surpass 2008, with Obama leading among people who have already voted. Spreading the myth that the system is so corrupt that these votes don’t matter tells voters they may as well sit out the election.
Of course the voting machines aren't rigged. Because in our exceptional nation, Americans are exceptionally fair and even-handed. And Republicans would never think of flipping votes and stealing elections because they recognize the legitimacy of our two-party democracy. Even though they actually don't, and they've been flipping votes and rigging elections for years.
Hate to say it, but this is the liberal equivalent of climate-change denialism. But as with climate change, ignoring doesn't it mean it's ever going to go away.
---Baron V
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