• Desistance@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It really is. But it’s the textbook result of Democrats not voting.

      17% of registered voters actually voted for Governor and the Landry got in on 11%. It’s the same across nearly all disticts which has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

      People are so disenfranchised and uninformed that they don’t even bother.

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        7 months ago

        It’s either democrats not voting or it’s votes being counted wrong. We don’t want to face that possibility because it seems hopeless, but that kind of thing can happen. We really need to have more robust systems for ensuring vote counts are correctly reported, verifiable by everyone. Something similar to how monero does its thing without revealing identities but still providing the ability to verify transactions, we should have a voting system that cryptographically allows a person to confirm their vote was counted, without having to provide the ability for others to see what that vote was. There’s got to be some kind of algorithm that does this