• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    22 hours ago

    Gerrymandering of districts is real. So is the blue bias of surveys.

    Though Gerrymandered districts are more susceptible to flipping if your approval is on a historical low as you sacrificed your fortresses to construct them.

    And a close election can be contested more easily. Even Victor orban just admitted defeat so even non democratic seeming candidates may listen to the people, more so than you’d think.

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      20 hours ago

      Gerrymandering is probably gonna be the least of the cheating going on. Suppression of mail votes, deployment of brownshirts at polling stations, oligarchs offering money for votes, voting officials being Trump partisants doing whatever they want, and much much more.

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      20 hours ago

      Though Gerrymandered districts are more susceptible to flipping if your approval is on a historical low as you sacrificed your fortresses to construct them.

      I think this will happen in some places (assuming we end up having an election), and the GOP will use it as evidence that Democrats cheated.

      They stacked the deck to win those districts, and when they don’t, they will claim the Democrats cheated.