(#6179) I am concerned about muskrat!

      Whatever musk did to help trump overcome a massive popularity disparity before election day in 2024 is my concern. I am not sure what he did either illegally or deceptive, it worked. So the same now is the case with trump and his massive unpopularity. What will musk do to guarantee a republican hold of the House and Senate and many state races? My best guess is some kind of electronic malfeasance. I don't know but I have a gut feeling. Anyway, the numbers are against republicans now as we have seen over the last many special elections. Even where democrats lost they only lost by small amounts when in the past we have lost by much larger numbers.
     I know that trump has seen what id going on and will have musk back into the fold doing whatever mischief of illegality he can hide from the public. There is no check on trump/musk since republicans control all three branches of government. I do not hesitate to believe republicans would do anything within their power and outside their power to hold onto power. For them holding power by any means is a cost they are more than willing to gamble. Given the stakes all I can think about is how we the people combat the coming manipulations that are in my mind no doubt to be done. I do not trust the voting machines unless we get a copy of our ballot from them that we can keep.
     When I send in my mail ballot I always take a picture of the votes I cast and the ballot number. Short of that how will we know how our votes are counted? I do trust my state of California for the most part to be free and fair in the counting. But other states that are beholden to trump are not a given to be fair, so we must have a plan to prove our votes. Which means each of us must vote early so that there is little time between us voting and the election office obtaining our votes. Then getting a copy of your ballot's identification number is key or taking a pic of it with your phone. Just so we the people do not doubt our votes were counted properly. That is where I think musk can have an influence by rigging the machines in a way that is not detectable. I don't trust republicans one bit to count our votes properly when it comes to trump and his puppet musk!