Fogdog
Well-Known Member
I think his point is that the election is so lopsided that officials in your state will be afraid to get caught tampering.
DIY also doesn't know much about Florida. My dad grew up in Mississippi and moved to Florida before leaving it all behind to get as far away from it as he could, settling down in California, San Francisco nonetheless. He laughed when he heard about the scandal in 2000, saying "Florida couldn't run a clean election if it tried".
So, I think you are right, Florida is going to be the worst offender this year when it comes to election-tampering. They already pulled out the stops in terms of voter suppression. To the point of ignoring the will of their Florida's voters when they created an artificial block to felons getting back their right to vote. Their state leaders have no regard for democracy and see the legal system as a tool to maintain their illegitimate control of government. They can't win fair so they will win dirty. Plantation political power never left that state. A government of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy. Yet, dirt-poor rural voters continue to vote the most egregious offenders back into power in the Statehouse. In part because the spoils system is still in place out there. In combination of those of voters and voter suppression, I think DeSantis won the popular vote in that state. Won outright. Didn't need any fixing of the election though by reflex they did anyway.
Florida is pretty strongly against Trump this year, with polls showing about 3.4% advantage to Biden. Florida has about 14 million voters, so the nudge for Trump would have to suppress 500,000 votes for Biden or shift 250,000 away from Biden. Or some combination. They are good at cheating, don't really need to hide it and it's do-able. So, yeah, Florida makes me nervous.
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