Anyone who says “the election was rigged,” needs to stop. There are so many reasons, but let’s start with the logic one:
Elections are run at the county level. Every county does things differently. For instance, in Los Angeles, Prop 50 was actually called State Measure 50 on the ballot, but in a different county, I don’t remember which I heard about, it was called Prop 50.
They do this on purpose, so that it’s near impossible to rig an election at the ballot box.
Even within a county, sometimes they put things in different orders on various ballots.
To say that “the election is rigged” is an insult to the poll workers and the incredibly hard tireless and unappreciated work they do to to make sure every ballot is counted fairly.
Now onto the more pressing aspect, let’s talk about Aftyn Behn.
We are not going to win every election. Let me say that again, it is impossible that we win every single race we compete in.
We have been overperforming by an average of 15 points in almost every election across the country since March.
But that also means we’re going to overperform by a bit less in some places and a bit more in overs, this is an average.
12 points is an INCREDIBLE overperformance. But we didn’t win, and we were probably never going to.
It is so dangerous to keep acting like stinky babies anytime we lose an election. How exactly does that set us apart from the Republicans?
If we were talking about 2 points or less, maybe you’d have a point, but a 9 point margin is a 9 point margin, and that’s not small, no matter how few votes we’re talking about. It’s 15k votes in a small portion of one state, not 15k votes in a whole state or the entire country. A number that sounds small in a Presidential Gubernatorial or Senatorial election, is very big in a race for the House.
They WANT us to question elections. They WANT us to be where they are. That gives them the ability to start floating privatizing that too. We see this with everything, first they break it, then they say it’s bad then they privatize it.
Stop giving them the ammo. They do not run elections, the counties do. Poll workers do.
And maybe focus on where elections are actually at risk.
The reasons we did lose in 2024: the lawsuits, the voter suppression, and most importantly, the disenfranchisement, which btw, your assertion that an election we lost by 9 points was stolen, is also a form of.
Think before you put something on social media, PLEASE!
