The only way Gardner comes out of this clean and legit is if he can release, unedited, every transcript, email and directive that has crossed between members of this fraud commission. I lean towards him wanting to do the right thing, but thinking “bipartisan” is more important than integrity may be his flaw.
And where are Mel’s immigration records?
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So this guy is basically a Reagan Democrat?
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This seems more like a case of the proverbial blind squirrel, than an actual principled stand. He’s advocating against electronic voting machines purely for the nostalgia for the “halcyon days of the past,” when things were “simpler/happier/kinder” or whatever nonsense adjective you prefer. I don’t see evidence based on his behavior that it has anything to do with actually protecting the integrity of the ballots.
He seems to be working under the logical fallacy of appealing to tradition. If we’d been using unsecured electronic machines for the last century, it sounds like Gardner would be advocating their continued use now due to that glorified history.
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As an IT professional, I’m 100% down with his attitude on Electronic voting systems … they are electronic swiss cheese for motivated state sponsored hackers to manipulate. That is clear.
Otherwise, he sounds like a (dare I use the phrase) DINO, maybe he was one back when I was a child, but now i’m an old man, and he’s not a Dem anymore. And as for keeping NH’s 1st in the nation status? Shame on him and them. Complete farce that Dems should change immediately. If he can monitor what is happening and sound the alarm, so be it … otherwise, time to help him move on.
There are exactly two possibilities, played out over and over again for more than 40 years: either this guy is being blackmailed, or he’s being bribed. He is either knuckling under because some dark money funded operative has something on him and is holding it over his head: or he is receiving dark money directly in the form of a bribe. There are no other serious possibilities. The dark money machine has used a deft combination of bribery and propaganda to undermine constitutional order and shatter democratic governance in this country. This guy is either a casualty or a co-conspirator.
making voting easier depresses turnout rather than increasing it.
I would love to hear his causal mechanism for how this would work.
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That logic definitely isn’t sound. Like with Republicans, he seems to believe that making voting easier for more people is somehow suspect, probably because it means more of the “wrong” kind of people aka minorities, poor people might vote for the “wrong” people aka Democrats.
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The reason he sits on the panel is precisely because he is primarily focused on keeping New Hampshire first and consequently can be easily bullied into accepting anything to parry the threats by the GOP to permit Iowa or another Red State to go first. The Trump team picked shrewdly and found the Dem with the greatest weakness to exploit.
Of course, this won’t matter much if the GOP plan to privatize every aspect of government, including counting the ballots reaches its goal.