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A Hegseth Employee Created a Database to Track Americans Based on Their Political Affiliation (www.rsn.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1368758/a-hegseth-employee-created-a-database-to-track-americans-based-on-their-political-affili

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think you can freely change affiliations in those states prior to the election, as a lot of people join the other party to vote for the guy that they think is less electable when they know their own guy already is going to get it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    to vote for the guy that they think is less electable when they know their own guy already is going to get it.

    I can't even compute why anyone would want to do that, much less imagine ‘a lot of people’ doing it. Is that, like, throwing a pity bone to the less-electable guy? Could this be how the US got Trump?

    Yall's political shenanigans are fun, but you need ranked voting yesterday.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Oh it makes a lot of sense if the ones pushing the strategy know the electorate. The democrats don't clearly. It is a part of how the prez got elected I am sure, but if done right it is quite effective.

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