# What about the old boogeyman?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610 "2020-11-03T03:14:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610/1 "2020-11-03T03:14:55Z")

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The whole country has been so preoccupied with Trump’s efforts to cheat his way back into office, that we’ve completely forgotten what used to worry us - falsifying election results by hacking or manipulating the results generated by the software. Have our collective eyes been taken off the ball by Trump’s brilliant 6-D chess game?

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**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610/2 "2020-11-03T15:06:18Z")

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As we have been constantly reminded throughout the Trump presidency, Americans have very short memories, and a propensity to “move on”. Once an issue has been pushed through the overheated media meat grinder - even if unresolved! (especially if unresolved!) - we no longer care. Sure, many thoughtful people like yourself will chime in once and a while with “but, we never really fixed this…”, whereas the rest just continue to whistle past the graveyard.

I know that statement isn’t really helpful, just acknowledging and decrying the phenomenon.

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610/3 "2020-11-03T15:56:57Z")

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It’s not the voters, but the guy that counts the votes, that has the real power. Always has been that way, sorry to say. Even with paper ballots.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610/4 "2020-11-17T02:53:51Z")

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Answering my own question, I guess it’s the Pubbies who are now worried about this…

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610/5 "2020-11-17T17:42:26Z")

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Preventing votes is still the most serious problem by far.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-old-boogeyman/924610/6 "2020-11-17T17:44:18Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> Preventing votes is still the most serious problem by far

Problem to some, solution to others.