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I have written before about the phenomenon of poll defying victories for Republicans post the 2002 shift to electronic voting machines, commonly dubbed the ‘red shift.’ While you may mock this, gentle reader, as the purview of the tinfoil hat brigade, I would like to remind you that a federal judge ordered Georgia to get rid of it’s paperless electronic voting machines in 2018 and the very next election that state elected 2 Democratic Senators and rejected Trump’s bid for a second term.
You may well argue that correlation does not imply causation, but Federal courts rarely order a state to dismantle and replace wholesale their electoral apparatus. Of course I suppose (or at least hope) that it’s rare that a Secretary of State supervises his own election to Governor. (Yes that happened.)
I would say Federal Courts don’t order anything lightly, but I am still somewhat sore at a Federal judge who after an entire bench trial decided he wasn’t going to issue a verdict and required a written trial brief due in two weeks…but I digress.
So lets assume there is a problem with electronic voting machines. (I mean there are numerous problems, they’re easily hacked, they connect to the internet though they’re not supposed to, e poll books don’t work right and cause delays, votes get lost, they are vulnerable to foreign…
