You may or may not know that way before President Donald Trump was a thing, the US voting machines were deeply secretive sacks of smoldering garbage. It has always been a fact that if you are voting on a machine in the United States, you have no idea what happens when you push that button or touch that screen. Maybe it registers your vote. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it registers a fraction of your vote. Maybe it controls a game of Mario Kart. Literally no one outside the companies who create and run these proprietary secretive machines know the truth.
That may all soon change thanks to a recent court decision.
There’s a lawsuit working it’s way through the courts challenging the results of the 2024 election, both Presidential and Senatorial. Let me be clear that I don’t have a stance on whether Trump legitimately won the election. I think Kamala Harris was a nothing candidate and Joe Biden was a dimented (literally) old war criminal. And Donald Trump makes rotting roadkill skunk carcasses seem pure, and good, and refreshingly honest.
But that’s not the point. Whether Trump or Harris or whoever won the election, we should have a legitimate democracy — Instead we have the furthest thing from it.