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Violet Madder on Nostr: I tried to help verify the vote counts in California's 2016 Democratic primary. It ...

I tried to help verify the vote counts in California's 2016 Democratic primary. It was a shitshow.

When the margin for winning is smaller than the margin of error, much of everything is happening inside of proprietary corporate boxes, count observers can't get close enough to observe anything meaningful, and there's other weird shit like the huge shredder truck outside Alex Padilla's office the next morning-- I don't trust our electoral system as far as I could kick it.

On top of the gerrymandering and bought-out media, and that Princeton study already showed only about 10% of legislation reflects what the people want vs what big money wants.

This is not what democracy looks like.