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by dfabulich 2764 days ago
The comments on that blog post are examples of the problem. They're diving straight into disagreements about matters of fact (like whether a party cheated in a particular election, and whether both sides cheat).

The point is that we're not (no longer) disagreeing about values, but about the facts, and that authoritarians are deliberately attempting to muddy the waters here. They're clearly succeeding, and the commenters seem to be distracted from that.

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> examples of the problem

on the other hand, they both seem to come to the same conclusion: that we need our election machinery to be verifiably tamper-proof.