• watty@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    I think the states handling election in theory makes sense. It’s a decentralized system that is harder to undermine. An independent body may bring consistency, but I don’t think that helps at all in combatting Trump’s tampering.

    Also, many states are using paper ballots and always have been.

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      7 days ago

      Decentralization isn’t always better, it’s not as efficient and, in this case, it makes it so people’s ability to choose their president varies by state and in red states there’s scheming to prevent the Democrats from gaining ground.

      With an independent body and equal access to voting for all, Trump wouldn’t have been elected in the first place.

      You say it’s harder to undermine but it’s getting undermined while we don’t have issues like we see in the USA right next door in Canada.