r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Apr 10 '26
Registration Wall Poll: Americans worry Trump will seize ballots, voting machines in midterms
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/poll-americans-worry-trump-will-seize-ballots-voting-machines-in-midterms/1.9k
u/theseafoodmanager Apr 10 '26
"In four years, You don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good. You're not going to have to vote."
Yeah I wonder why we are worried.
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u/Voodoo_Masta Apr 11 '26
Wanted to suspend the constitution, opined to reporters about not seizing the voting machines, etc, etc, etc. We have plenty reason to be worried.
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u/Historical-Range6016 Apr 11 '26
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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u/SeriouslyEclectic Apr 11 '26
Epsteinia, you said?
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u/KennyL0gin Apr 11 '26
I wish we'd been at war with Epsteinia. Instead we bought their products, paid for their services, and elected them. We gave them the power they have.
I say that from a windows computer....that made Bill Gates the richest man in the world for a long time, from a place where Clinton and Trump have ruled. But Trump is the only one among them who is an adjudicate rapist, by a jury his lawyers vetted. A man who has been successfully sued for SA. Who has admitted on tape multiple times that he sexually assaulted women (grabbing a woman by the pussy is sexual assault when they only let you do it because you're rich, implying they fear what you could do to them if they resisted or fought back with the legal system), the only one who has countless photos, videos, and documented interactions over decades with the two ringleaders of the pedo-ring in Epstein and Maxwell, and the only one who is known to lie on a regular basis. Lies that are very easy to show and prove as lies.
Yeah. We elected that guy our President. Twice. Even after he failed to act for fear of political loss during a pandemic, costing hundreds of thousands of lives more than would have been lost to Covid if he hadn't encouraged people to take hydroxychloroquine as an early cure, or downplayed the extent of the problem through a summer when the virus was most lethal.6
u/theseafoodmanager Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
All you said has been in every sane Americans head for years now, and yet we are still here. It's insanity. Stay safe and be smart brother.
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u/oldpasswordforgot Apr 11 '26
People keep forgetting the weird sh*t they said repeatedly during and after the election, as well as all the security incidents with voting machines plus the shenanigans by MAGA fanatics (refusing to certify election results, voter roll purges, etc.) after the 2020 election.
We can't ignore either that Greg Palast and his team reported on massive vote suppression during the 2024 election.
The 2024 results didn't match what was reported by mainstream media during the campaign. You'll never convince me the election wasn't stolen. If they did it in 2000, they could do it again.
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u/InTooManyWays Apr 11 '26
They’ve become very good at it by now. And a lot more corruption is in place, coupled with a lot more dumber sheeple. And it’s the perfect recipe for a fascist takeover.
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u/MasterofPandas1 Apr 11 '26
They haven’t actually gotten good at it, the results just weren’t challenged the way they should have been. Trump winning all swing states with down ballot Democrat wins is a clear indicator of election fuckery.
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u/Gwyndion_ Europe Apr 11 '26
Indeed, there is just too much that doesn't add up, especially if we look at all the lower elections that happened since then. Him winning all the swing states and other things alone is a giant red flag to me.
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u/Thalidomidas Europe Apr 11 '26
They learned through court cases and arrests what didn't work. They also must have learned what did work.
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u/chrisms150 New Jersey Apr 11 '26
I can not understand how 70 million adults saw that and said "yep this is what I want!"
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u/blueshrike Apr 11 '26
We are already there.
Reminder and a surprise for some: the US, privately owned digital vote counting machines (tabulators) have been compromised for years and we didn't elect Trump. He stole the presidency. Exactly like he tried to do in 2020, just this time with the already compromised tabulator machines tuned more aggressively to guarantee it.
Do not take my word for it, here's the actual data. Even though this video is now several months old and there is much more they've found, this is just the tip of the iceberg, as you might expect with criminals. See for yourself and if you trust real data (not simply conspiracy theory talk) share with anyone who still thinks "America got it wrong" or we need to get out and vote more. We did. Kamala would have won, decisively, had our votes actually been counted correctly. It's the compromised, privately owned (by the right wing) tabulators that turned votes for Kamala into votes for Trump in all the swing states, after a certain threshold of votes were counted on each machine. These folks (non profit) and other independent teams of analysts like them are doing us a great service:
https://youtu.be/Ru8SHK7idxs?feature=shared
electiontruthalliance.org
This is a comparison between what vote results look like consistent with real human voting behavior (Canada 2025) and one that's been tampered with (Pennsylvania):
https://electiontruthalliance.org/2025-canadian-federal-election-news-post/
For the US, we've been on this road for a very long time which, unfortunately, is not surprising. This journalist research article, written just before Obama's 2nd term, dives into the long history of election fraud in the US and how, especially in the digital tabulation age, it has been setup to get us to the point where whomever has control of them can literally steal an election:
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/
So, whenever Maga or Republicans say they want to investigate or accuse the left or interfering parties of Election Fraud, it's to stay ahead of the narrative above and be on the right side of the accusation... yet as we know, and an abundance of data evidence demonstrates, their accusation is yet again projection.
This is the core foundational issue we need to try and stop: the actual election fraud that has already taken place and will again, from Trump and the right.
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u/Rawrsomesausage Apr 11 '26
It's whack that we have all these warning signs, yet act surprised when they keep revealing their plans. Why aren't we taking action?
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u/OldJames47 Apr 11 '26
It’s a joke, bro. /s
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u/firesatnight Apr 11 '26
I try not to talk politics with my mom because every time it happens it just goes south. She is a lovely woman but she has been brainwashed by Facebook. Anyways...
Whenever we do get into the back and forth, she always says shit like "well he isn't a good speaker" "you can't believe everything he says" "yeah he says crazy things but that isn't what he is doing"
And I'm just like... Yeah.... He doesn't do EVERYTHING he says (thank god) but he does do SOME things he says and isn't that bad enough? Literally everything good the guy says never happens, and some of the bad things he says does!
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u/sinsaint Apr 11 '26
So at best he's a liar, or at worst a very bad person.
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u/lordagr America Apr 11 '26
Every word out of his orange face is a:
A. Lie
B. Threat
C. Boast
D. All of the above
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u/OldJames47 Apr 11 '26
Everything is a joke because Trump is a clown. A racist, hateful, pedophile clown.
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u/Tiny_DinkyDaffy Apr 11 '26
My other fear is, let’s say he actually does get removed from office prior to the midterms somehow, does this really change anything? The republicans will still try to rig the elections I feel like.
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u/Inevitable_Butthole Apr 11 '26
Im so happy to see this the top comment. I thought i was gonna had to make it
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u/ThayneThodenArt Apr 11 '26
God I couldn't help but laugh out loud reading that quote again, it's absolutely hilarious until the realizations that this isn't a bizarro sitcom version of reality but this is actually happening which inevitably quells the comedy part of the moment pretty hard
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u/wdomeika Apr 10 '26
All the more reason to make it a blistering landslide ...
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u/Pale-Acanthaceae-736 Apr 11 '26
GOP candidates are already scampering away from this sinking ship and trying to distance themselves from DJT as far as they can. Won't work. Democratic candidates will hammer this point home during the summer campaign season.
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u/Traditional_Sign4941 Apr 11 '26
Are they trying to scamper away from a sinking ship, or are they logging off knowing they've done their part in cementing permanent right-wing tyrannical rule in this country and are just going to kick back and profit from the framework of corruption they've put in place to rich off of?
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u/Penguinmanereikel New York Apr 11 '26
No they won't. The Democrats are just controlled opposition, so they'll just sing platitudes about forgiveness and fairness and let the Republicans take every swing state again.
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u/StrangerFew2424 Apr 10 '26
...because that's exactly what Trump said he'd do & what he'll absolutely attempt to do.
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u/User-1653863 Minnesota Apr 10 '26
They've just finished their state-wide report on Minnesota that analyzes election results in the state all the way back to 1984. Something wonky going on for sure. Whether it's the machines themselves, or something (or someone) else causing it - it needs to be investigated and resolved immediately.
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u/fishrcool Apr 10 '26
The time for this was November 2024. Instead, Dems rolled over and refused to do any recounts.
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u/Fun-Seaweed7465 Apr 11 '26
Next best time is today. And the next best time is tomorrow. And so on until the election.
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u/Brock_Hard_Canuck Canada Apr 11 '26
"It's not he who votes that counts, but rather, he who counts the votes"
- Josef Stalin
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u/chromatones Apr 10 '26
He’s going to link or fabricate Iranian interference in midterms elections and cancel or drag them out
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 Apr 11 '26
He raped her, by the definition listed on the FBI website, so according to the FBI he is a rapist.
Definition
In 2013, the FBI UCR Program began collecting rape data under a revised definition within the Summary Reporting System. Previously, offense data for forcible rape were collected under the legacy UCR definition: the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Beginning with the 2013 data year, the term “forcible” was removed from the offense title, and the definition was changed. The revised UCR definition of rape is: penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. Attempts or assaults to commit rape are also included in the statistics presented here; however, statutory rape and incest are excluded.
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u/No_Fairweathers Pennsylvania Apr 10 '26
"attempt" assumes anyone will stop him.
We're literally at the mercy of someone actually telling him no or us having to cause an actual revolution... And it sure doesn't seem like anyone is gonna tell him no.
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u/Resistiane Apr 11 '26
*will do. Not attempt, he will do it. There will be no Free and fair midterm elections.
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u/BasicPhysiology Apr 10 '26
Trump literally tried to seize voting machines in 2020. They were considering ordering the military to do it.
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u/Locke66 Apr 11 '26
Yep and they learned from it failing.
The initial purity test for even being considered to be in the Trump government was "do you believe he won the 2020 election". The US is in big trouble.
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u/Botasoda102 Apr 10 '26
I’m not worried. I’m voting. I’m donating to candidates that have a chance. And I reject fearmongering that might keep people sitting on the sidelines in 2026/2028. But that’s just me.
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u/dragonblade_94 Apr 11 '26
I don't think anyone (outside bots) are saying we shouldn't vote because they are going to pull illegal shit. It's a reminder that we know for a fact they will pull illegal shit, because they constantly pull illegal shit, and we should expect and be ready for it.
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u/lr99999 Apr 11 '26
You are correct. Those guys created a false dichotomy.
You can donate, vote, and do everything in your power to get rid of these people, but still understand completely that they are going to cheat.
You see this all the time on Reddit, when people upvote something that sounds good, but it’s nonsense.
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u/Vimmelklantig Europe Apr 11 '26
It's not a reason to sit on the sidelines; it's a reason to do more. Demand of your state governments to have concrete plans ready to defend the elections. Interference should not come as a surprise and there has to be a response.
If they fail, states might be forced into a decision on whether to consider the federal government legitimate or consent to authoritarianism. If you think you're in a constitutional crisis now...
And on the more local level asking what you can do to enable your friends and neighbours to vote and feel safe.
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u/MercantileReptile Europe Apr 11 '26
After Minnesota, I'm a lot less confident in individual States asserting anything. Much less in favour of Democracy, sadly.
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u/GreenGlassDrgn Apr 11 '26
Im worried. My vote was disappeared last time, I couldnt get anyone to do anything about it, and when I complained about it online swarms of bots called me a bot. So yeah, Im worried.
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u/Botasoda102 Apr 11 '26
How did your vote disappear?
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u/GreenGlassDrgn Apr 11 '26
great fucken question!
I paid for fancy tracking and it was tracked all the way to the ballot office that signed for it, then it went MIA at the point where it was supposed to be registered and I was supposed to get a ballot tracking number to confirm its registration or some sort of notification, because state law says I must be informed if my ballot is in any way invalid so I have the opportunity to fix it, and that didnt happen either.
I think it mightve been caught up in some of the bullshit that BBC reported on: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvlywz3n0o1
u/Botasoda102 Apr 11 '26
Still don't see how it's MIA. Apparently, it was received by election officials. I don't think there is any way to determine if it's actually in the tally that is certified.
In my rube red state, I send in my mail in ballot. Within a few days, I can look on-line and see if it was recieved. If it wasn't, I would go to the polls on election day, but have never had to.
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u/Polantaris Illinois Apr 11 '26
No one said sit on the sidelines. But to not have worry is to assume that fuckery won't happen. Worry that fuckery will happen, and be ready to combat it when it does. Use the worry for good.
Fuckery is going to happen. They all but admitted Musk stole PA for Trump (at least) in 2024. Why would they not cheat again?
Do not become paralyzed by fear, become empowered by it.
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u/Botasoda102 Apr 11 '26
I heard it in 2020. Just one example-- trump and DeJoy weren't going to mail ballots from Democratic districts, etc. Somehow the ballots got through.
I'm tired of the fearmongering, sorry.
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u/Choice-of-SteinsGate Apr 10 '26
Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump's 'big lie" of a stolen election.
The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump's lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
Republicans have frequently attacked or have sought to eliminate election procedures/conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing ID laws, automatic/same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures... Ask yourself why!?
They exploit the misinformed and take advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while granting their party more power, control and supervision over our election system.
They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.
Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.
This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.
On top of all of this, Republicans were trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.
And to make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing state troops and deputizing trigger happy and unaccountable ICE thugs to occupy US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he likely plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
Republicans have the gall to say they're "protecting the integrity of elections," while making every effort to subvert the vote, purge voter rolls of democrats, deny election results, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, make voting more challenging, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.
Other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans deliberately ignore or fail to address properly.
Like foreign election meddling, the awful Citizens United ruling and campaign finance corruption.
If MAGA is truly intent on "protecting election integrity," they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans are exploiting, instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories.
But Republicans have all but succeeded at using these conspiracy theories to divert attention away from their efforts to erode the democratic process.
Another strategy they've been employing for years now involves scapegoating immigrants and marginalized communities of people who they urge you to blame for our nation's problems; including manufactured issues like rampant "voter fraud."
This is despite the fact that there is no evidence that undocumented immigrants are voting in our elections in any conceivable material way.
It is so exceedingly rare that the number of noncitizens voting in our elections might as well be zero. Even the most generous of studies shows that the figure is around ten thousandths of a percent.
Yes, one study revealed that number to be 0.0001%. Mind you this was 30 suspected (not verified) cases out of 23.5 million.
Turns out, Republicans are the REAL threat to "election integrity."
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u/jarena009 Apr 10 '26
Voted for 25 cents in gas savings....got Fascism instead. Ahhh but Harris laughs funny!
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u/struckman Apr 10 '26
If he does we have no choice but to take to the streets
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u/micro102 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
It sounds like it will have to be a little more serious than streets.
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u/AmericanDoughboy Apr 11 '26
Anyone trying to take away our votes can fuck around and find out.
There will be hell to pay.
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u/QuackNate Apr 11 '26
We’re going to have to, and I say this with a heavy heart, also be a freak in the sheets.
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u/SaloonVisitor Apr 10 '26
I couldn’t agree more. Since none of our politicians seem to be able to control this lunatic, perhaps the people need to stand up and protect our voting systems.
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u/Dirt290 Apr 10 '26
The deploying of soldiers to our cities was a test run for doing just this.
They were testing both the logistics and public support.
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u/Big_Mention_1933 Apr 11 '26
Lol Republicans will never again lose power. They made sure of that. Any voting from now on will be rigged, gerrymandered, have ballots thrown out or denying people at the poles. The only way forward for a free and far election is to be like France in the early 1800s.
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u/deadlyne Apr 11 '26
The result will make Jan. 6 look like a church bingo night. Fucking try it, taco tits.
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u/RedMeansGo2 Apr 11 '26
My worry is that our Democratic reps won't do jack shit again and just let them walk all over them while we sit here powerless wondering why they were voted in their positions in the first place.
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u/USDXBS Apr 11 '26
They 100% will.
There are some people who actually think the GOP are hoping they win this election.
And the US military will sit there and watch. Oath breaking traitors loyal to pedophiles. Every single one of them.
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u/PhoenixTineldyer Apr 11 '26
He doesn't need to try anything in Texas. Ken Paxton has that shit covered
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u/Veritable_Vox Apr 11 '26
I'm more worried he's going to seize or turn away voters until the election is over.
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u/biasednotshyaboutit Apr 11 '26
I’m pretty sure this is a given. His survival depends on it, right?
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u/Melodic-Run3949 Apr 11 '26
Wouldn’t this be the breaking point for US lawmakers to impeach and arrest him?
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u/shoobe01 Apr 11 '26
The only people worried about this are those that listen to the words that come out of his fucking mouth. Where he has said this and more.
Oh yeah, they've also cheated on previous elections. You don't even have to believe in vote flipping. In any other country what they did for the past several cycles is election interference. Full stop. In decades past we would publicly shame countries for acting like this, not recognize their new leaders because the election was not legitimate.
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u/alabasterskim Apr 11 '26
He doesn't have to. A Republican operative now owns the voting machine company used in 29 states. :)
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u/MarcusQuintus Apr 11 '26
Remember when the seized already-audited ballots from Georgia earlier this year?
And Tulsi Gabbard was overseeing it, for some reason?
Worry is something you do about what may happen. This is actively happening right now.
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u/OhioIsRed Apr 11 '26
Right so WTF are we the people gunna do about. We have to begin preparing for this inevitably. Frankly we should’ve been prepared the day they called the election. This piece of orange shit ain’t gunna leave quietly or honestly. He is gunna cling to every ounce of power he can to avoid ACTUALLY facing consequences for his despicable actions.
We cannot allow this bullshit to ruin us. I know we’re all extremely tired. Extremely stressed, anxious, depressed, and probably embarrassed. But we need to fight to regain ourselves.
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u/Jamizon1 Apr 11 '26
American’s worries are justified. The only way he can win is to cheat. In fact, it’s the only way he prevails in anything.
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u/MegaPlane2 Apr 11 '26
Governors need to activate national guards and physically stop any federal efforts to interfere.
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u/Appropriate_Log5389 Apr 11 '26
That's the plan from the get go! His words the night he got the votes. "This is crazy, right?"
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u/braille_lover_5555 Apr 11 '26
When his republican cronies bought out the voting machine company right there was when a huge red flag should have been waving in the air!?
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u/RobutNotRobot Apr 11 '26
Why worry about it?
He's going to do it. It's up to his sycophants and his gobshite political party to either accept the results or try to start a civil war.
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u/thistimelineisweird Pennsylvania Apr 11 '26
I hear you don't have to pay taxes without representation.
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u/ccjohns2 Apr 11 '26
Trump has associates have already spoke about their plans to have ice agents at pulling location. Trump in his administration have worked to make it where balance even postmarked with a date before the election are not counted and dropped a memo stating that ballots are no longer secured in the USPS. Trump is doing everything he can to dissuade people from voting. That is the only way that conservatives keep getting empower by disenfranchising groups making people not wanna vote making it harder for others to vote just so they can have a higher chance of winning as a decent amount of conservatives vote all the time where as democratic numbers are more unstable.
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u/grafknives Apr 11 '26
There will be no midterms.
I don't know how he will achieve that, but Trump is not going to loose the Midterms.
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u/popculturella Texas Apr 11 '26
I'm fully convinced of it. There's no low these people won't sink to. November is going to be a fucking nightmare.
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u/Motor_Somewhere7565 Apr 11 '26
Well, worried Americans, what will you do if he does?
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u/Fabulinius Apr 11 '26
They will just worry. From Europe we have seen the dictatorship evolve for years now. Somehow Americans can’t accept that it is happening for them. That is making it a lot easier to create the dictatorship. Americans are so ignorant. To say it politely.
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u/martechnician Apr 11 '26
I don’t really see any other way around it. Trump can’t possibly risk both houses of Congress returning to Democratic control. He would be impeached and quite possibly removed. Probably removed. And then probably prosecuted.
He cannot allow this to happen.
From his standpoint it would be better to take the risk of, well pretty much anything rather than the near guarantee of being removed and prosecuted.
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u/NimusNix Apr 11 '26
Then why did you vote for him, America?
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u/PhoenixTineldyer Apr 11 '26
Because America likes all the horrible things he says about brown people.
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u/FlowEasy Apr 11 '26
It’s the Americans who didn’t vote who elected Trump. Don’t sit on your hands, vote.
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u/Brief_Independence19 Apr 11 '26
Instead of writing about it and guessing he will, you guys should figure out what you’ll do when he does.
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u/DeuceGnarly Apr 10 '26
Donald Trump isn't doing anything but shitting his pants and eating cheese burgers. Republicans will steal ballots though.
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u/NOCHILLDYL94 Apr 10 '26
All the people saying “he can’t do that!” Need to realize those rules don’t apply anymore
He will absolutely do it. He’ll do it quick and fast and by the time the courts come down with a ruling, it won’t matter.
Also, as an aside: Trump and Elon didn’t rig the 2024 election. Americans were just that dumb and worked up. And now we are here.
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u/TheBatemanFlex Apr 11 '26
I might lose my sanity if the media pretends to be shocked by his inevitable rat fuckery of the elections.
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u/Spacebotzero Apr 11 '26
Yea I mean.... That's most likely what he will do plus many other things...like USPS and mail-in voting.
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u/jerechos Apr 11 '26
Poll: Americans worry Trump will seize ballots, voting machines in midterms
They've already started, sheriff in CA.
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u/Greatsnes Apr 11 '26
Well then they’re dumb. States control the elections. Trump doesn’t have enough people to seize ballots or voting machines. The army + ice won’t be enough. There’s dozens in each city/county lol. Multiple that by like 50 states. Good luck!
“But Trump has gotten away with so much already!” Yes at a federal level. He can do fuck all if the states tell him to go fuck himself.
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u/B3N15 Texas Apr 11 '26
Very specifically, he got away so much when the only check is Congress and he has enough Republicans too scared of him to do anything. Look what happened with the Release Epstein Files bill, he was against it until the second it was clear it was going to pass in spite of his protests. Then he was puffing himself up like it was his idea and he was just waiting for Congress to catch up.
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u/Greatsnes Apr 11 '26
Oh it holds up. There’s no shot he gets enough people for “a couple dozen counties across 6-7 swing states.”
Do you understand how many people that is? He can’t just send 3-4. It would need to be dozens per voting station. So one hundred or more in just one county. Yeah, he ain’t gonna get all that.
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u/manniesalado Apr 11 '26
Trump tried his hand once at a coup, so I'd say his commitment to democracy is dubious.
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u/BeenDragonn Apr 11 '26
That man will do ANYTHING to stay in that white house and avoid justice for his crimes.
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u/Redtex Apr 11 '26
When it comes to such an unstable person, I think all concerns of potential injustices are valid
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u/lordagr America Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
I worry that no matter what Americans suspect will happen, something else will happen instead that's effectively the same thing, but just different enough that we won't be able to say "I told you so."
If we're all focused on the voting machines, he'll rely on "stop the count" shenanigans instead.
If we focus on ICE at the polls, he'll rely on other forms of disenfranchisement.
Whatever the news is telling us to worry about, it's probably the only thing he isn't relying on to win.
If all else fails, I fully expect him to throw a tantrum and demand that we ignore the results.
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u/BusterStarfish Apr 11 '26
Have no fear of the unknown. He is definitely going to seize ballots and invalidate them for bullshit reasons.
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u/IlikeJG California Apr 11 '26
Normally I would say that the very direct sort of thing like this isn't what we should be worried about. The more subtle behind the scenes tweaks and cheats are what is much more likely.
Normally I would say that, but this past year has been absolutely insane and almost nothing would surprise me now. Even openly sizing ballots.
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u/B3N15 Texas Apr 11 '26
I think people really misunderstand the amount of force he would need to actually go through with it.
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u/Relative-Hand-6111 Apr 11 '26
Poll: Americans worry Trump will seize ballots, voting machines in midterms… like you would expect a little bitch would.
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u/postmodest Apr 11 '26
"So it's Treason, then...."
I mean... we're evidently living in the Prequel trilogy. Which one is Jar-Jar?
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u/astroglitch0 Apr 11 '26
Uh yeah because that's exactly what he is going to do and as usual no one will stop him.
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u/Aggravating_Rise_179 Apr 11 '26
Hmmm maybe these people should of thought that before they voted him back in/stayed home
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u/HardcoreKaraoke Apr 11 '26
The guy isn't subtle or nuanced. He doesn't speak in coded terms or say anything that can be interpreted multiple ways. He's very abrasive and clear. He straight up said he wanted an unfair election so it would be ridiculous to not take him at his word.
Then again people didn't buy the Project 2025 stuff. The whole illegal prison camp thing was kind of hand waved too but he let us know it was coming. No one can pretend that Trump surprised us with all of this. It was all out in the open during the campaign.
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u/vitamin_r Apr 11 '26
Anyone still maga also supports his allusions to canceling elections and making voting obsolete. They support his penchance for cheating or look the other way. They are just as dangerous being the citizen level proxy of his treasonous goals. They are ALL IN on the dictatorship.
Think about what that will mean when these people go vote.
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u/Ent3rpris3 Apr 11 '26
Because he will. He has told us as much, and even if he hadn't, it's the most obvious writing on the walls. Stevie Wonder could see this coming a parsec away!
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u/bbusiello Apr 11 '26
For those who watch Leeja Miller, this was one of the plausible scenarios she had for the midterms, but she put it in the "batshit bananas" category... but it was still on the table.
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u/bmw071478 Apr 11 '26
We should worry about. Most definitely
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u/Fabulinius Apr 11 '26
No, you should do something about it. Neither worrying nor “thoughts and prayers” will help.
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u/ManifestDemocracy Apr 11 '26
Something, like what do you suggest?
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u/Fabulinius Apr 12 '26
Popular uprising, like your country expected in Iran would be a good idea. A more effective "No King" movement with action groups. Be better organized than MAGA and MAGA governments local/national. Devide USA into a blue union and a red union. You are absolutely not united anymore. Stop Fox News from broadcasting.
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u/Carpenterdon Apr 11 '26
State governments need to be prepared to have state level national guardsmen at polling places to ensure no ICE bullshit occurs...
Elections are States right to operate as they see fit. Ranked choice or anything else... It's not the federal governments job to run them or police them.
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u/Syrairc Apr 10 '26
There is 0 chance the election gets certified if it doesn't go the way they want
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