Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
How the fuck is the election infrastructure even allowed to be privately owned?? I know the US is a capitalist country but fuck me, there have to be limits. For the democracy the US seems to enjoy forcibly spreading around the world to work, elections MUST be independent and verifiable. The fact anyone thinks it’s OK that this infrastructure can be bought and sold is just mind-boggling.
Capitalism does not require democracy. In fact democracy stands in the way of the incentives people who own significant capital have. Soooo, if democracy stands in the way of profit growth… it might have to go. 🥹 It happens gradually. We say there’s got to be a limit. They say OK and negotiate where the limit is. Sometime later they ask to renegotiate the limit a bit in their favour. We say, not a big deal, fine. Rinse and repeat until the limit has changed enough for them not to have to ask. They just try doing it without us noticing. Then at some point we start noticing. By then our democratic power is eroded to the point where shifting the limit in our favour is extremely difficult.
It’s a dystopia.