I’m still trying to understand Trump supporters. A NYT article shows how well Trump’s fears and lies are embedded among his supporters.
From the article:
Karen Cannestra does not like that drop box in front of West Bend City Hall.
Ms. Cannestra, 72 and retired, prefers to vote at her polling place in Wisconsin on Election Day, the way it was always done. It goes beyond personal preference, she says. Who knows the motives of the person who’s pulling those ballots out at the end of the day? Couldn’t somebody tamper with the process?
Isn’t that exactly what happened in 2020, she asked, when, she felt, the election was stolen?
“I don’t trust it, the drop box,” Ms. Cannestra said, before walking into City Hall to pay a utility bill. “No, no, no.”
So, she felt the election was stolen. “Who knows the motives of the person pulling those ballots out at the end of the day?” she wonders.
As much as anything, she’s flouting her ignorance. Not only on how the voting process works, etc. She’s flouting her ignorance about what’s happened in the courts regarding the ‘election steal’. No evidence has been presented that the election was stolen. Trump’s own administration called it the most secure election ever.
But, as we see we greater scrutiny, facts don’t get in the way of Trump support.
Later in the same article…
Another man said that he believed there was “corruption” on the City Council over the issue and that the city clerk, who has local authority over drop boxes, was not doing her job.
“I think it’s absolutely appalling what’s going on in our community,” he said.
He thinks…he believes…he doesn’t cite evidence.
What’s ‘absolutely appalling’ is how Trump has convinced these people to have faith in him and turned their brains into oatmeal. They don’t trust their friends and neighbors, nor their local elected officials. Certainly, they can’t trust Democrats!
And it’s all presented without any evidence.
And likewise, later in the article…
At a rally in Dodge County this month, Sheriff Dale J. Schmidt took the stage, turning to address Mr. Trump, who was campaigning there.
“I have something very important I think you’re going to want to hear,” Sheriff Schmidt said. “In Dodge County, in this 2024 election, there are zero drop boxes for the election.”
As the crowd erupted in cheers, Mr. Trump gave a double thumbs-up.
“We’re going to make sure that we have the best, most secure election in Dodge County history,” Sheriff Schmidt said.
(Sheriff Schmidt was wrong about the number of drop boxes; several municipalities in Dodge County have them, as the clerks pointed out last week.)
You see it yet again — lies and misinformation being offered as facts to a cheering crowd. What have these people done with their thinking? All of these examples show how Trump supporters swallow lies without giving it much thought.
Mind-fucking-boggling.
Imagine the cascade of insanity that will roll across the nation if Trump returns to the White House. Please, vote blue. Save us from the ignorance of Trump supporters.
Michael Seidel, writer 
Ohhhhh … my aching head! I know these people cannot all be that ignorant … so HOW have they allowed themselves to become brainwashed into believing garbage that makes no sense whatsoever? ‘Scuse me while I go take some Tylenol for my headache. Hugs ‘n cheers
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Speaking from my own experience, working at my local Board of Elections office, the drop box is emptied by a bipartisan team of a Democrat and Republican several times a day. It is never emptied by one person and is thoroughly checked by each person to be sure each and every ballot (in envelopes) as well as any other forms are put in the carrier (usually a tray) and returned to the office to be checked in (which includes time-stamping each and every piece of paper/envelope). Most times the team is made up of full-time employees of the BOE, but there have been a few times when I was one of them so I can attest to this.
In fact, every aspect of the BOE is done in a bipartisan manner, with checks and double-checks of all requests for ballots and the ballot envelopes themselves. I’ve worked part-time for them since 2016 and have learned firsthand all the safeguards that entails.
That people continue to lie to themselves and listen to the lies of Trump amazes me, too. It is mind-boggling!
One of the issues that someone (I don’t remember who) mentioned to me once was that all the election deniers who were also on the same ballots running for an office in 2020, but won their races, never complained about “election fraud.” Funny, that!
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My wife worked as a poll worker volunteer in California. She gets worked up by the claims because when she went through her classes, they talked about how it’s done in other places. Everywhere was secure, protected by multiple checks and balances.
We also watched the ballots get picked up here in Ashlandia one year. Little old man and woman. She stood guard as he grunted through the process.
Yes, I’ve actually seen the stolen election and election fraud claims now being preceded by ‘presidential’.
Cheers
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My husband and I recently watched a program on PBS about the checks and balances in Rhode Island’s voting systems. It was the same system (even the same company’s machine for casting the ballot, etc.) as we use in my local BOE.
I only wish more people would see the program. On another site in which some members were talking about election fraud, I shared the link to PBS so that they might view the reality. Whether anyone looked at it or not, I don’t know, but I wanted the information out there.
In other words, election deniers…get over it; he lost!
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That’s good info to get out there, Nan. Too sad that many who need to see it won’t.
They are really holding onto that bone, aren’t they? He lost, he lost, he lost.
Cheers, M
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