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They only need to put them in minority areas of marginal states.
The rest of it is rigged already.
There are few more harmful things we can say to each other right now than the implication that everything is rigged and people's votes don't matter.
The states are huge, they are hard to rig, or we wouldn't have seen the successes we have already.
The electoral college is the rigging. The voting isn't rigged. The outcome is.
They don't care about Minoritytown, Alabama. That state goes red no matter what.
Similarly, they're not going to intimidate all of Maryland. That is already going blue. It would be a waste of time to try.
Your votes in these areas are counted, but they don't change the outcome. The popular vote is meaningless.
The big reason why the electoral college has "rigged things" (aside from Jefferson fucking things up, but that's an argument for another time) is that the vote of so many has been so predictable. They only really worry about the places the outcome is likely to be volatile. Except in this election people are so pissed off that the outcome of the whole country is at least fuzzy, or can be if we work to make it that way. If they think they're gonna goround Texas, they need to send people down there to intimidate. But they don't. They might. In fact they're likely to.
Everything's in play if we make it all be in play. That's on us, so let's make it so sending goons to a few places won't suppress the nation's will. This isn't even a presidential election, so the electoral college isn't a factor. We can fix some of this shit right now.
Please help us do that! I'm treating this election like our lives depend on it, because they do.