Without calling into question the broader possibility that malfeasance did occur, I don’t feel like this argument is particularly credible.
Suppose you were to engage in some form of straight up ballot stuffing? Why then would you make them bullet ballots? Why not vote straight ticket Republican? Straight ticket ballots are not unusual - even less so then bullet ballots, apparently - so you’d draw less suspicion, and you’d get the benefit of lots of extra down ticket votes.
If someone was going to cheat, what benefit would they gain from cheating this way?
Just for the record, I don’t think there’s anything to this. It’s very hard to do voter fraud on a scale that matters, and I need more evidence than some strange ballots. If evidence emerges, I’ll change my mind, but I don’t expect that to happen.
That said, if I were to come up with an argument for why they did it this way, it’s because of how fascism is lined up behind a specific leader. Nobody below him matters. However important those people think they are, they are replaceable parts. This line of thought is so ingrained into fascism that they don’t even think of supporting anybody else.
Which is really important for reasons beyond possible voter fraud. It explains why people would naturally vote that way on their own, and then the voter fraud theory is cut up by Occom’s Razer.
Without calling into question the broader possibility that malfeasance did occur, I don’t feel like this argument is particularly credible.
Suppose you were to engage in some form of straight up ballot stuffing? Why then would you make them bullet ballots? Why not vote straight ticket Republican? Straight ticket ballots are not unusual - even less so then bullet ballots, apparently - so you’d draw less suspicion, and you’d get the benefit of lots of extra down ticket votes.
If someone was going to cheat, what benefit would they gain from cheating this way?
Just for the record, I don’t think there’s anything to this. It’s very hard to do voter fraud on a scale that matters, and I need more evidence than some strange ballots. If evidence emerges, I’ll change my mind, but I don’t expect that to happen.
That said, if I were to come up with an argument for why they did it this way, it’s because of how fascism is lined up behind a specific leader. Nobody below him matters. However important those people think they are, they are replaceable parts. This line of thought is so ingrained into fascism that they don’t even think of supporting anybody else.
Which is really important for reasons beyond possible voter fraud. It explains why people would naturally vote that way on their own, and then the voter fraud theory is cut up by Occom’s Razer.
Republicans are dumb enough to give it away if that is what happened. I’m not saying it is but I think there is definitely a non zero chance it is.