Because, really, we can ignore all the issues that have been analyzed by Americans over the past 15 years regarding the proprietary, hackable, electronic voting systems peddled by American companies. We can have complete "confidence in the security of the vote" in "most states," and we can rest assured that "an accurate count would probably be made," despite "meddling around the edges," which might constitute "disruption" but " not really "manipulation." [My emphasis.]
In fact, the authors warn us, "the disruption has already begun"--by the Russians. The American electoral system is probably in most states perfectly trustworthy, A-OK, and the Prime Danger comes not from the faults of the system itself, but only from the Russians--and, of course, Putin's American sleeper agents, Bev Harris, Virginia Martin , this writer, et al"who might try to make people "lose confidence in the system."
With this article, the NYT has given us a perfect example of the job the establishment media does: ignore the work, and trivialize the well-founded fears, of concerned Americans, and divert attention to the government's villain of the day. Singer and Savage have done their bit in trying to fold the growing, serious doubts about the voting system into the current ridiculous narrative about the evil, scheming Russians--in order to reinforce the all-important message: "Trust the system."
Will anyone really buy this nonsense? I wish I could say no.
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