These machines still suck, to be clear (the fact that they don't suck for the mypillovian reasons that Tucker Carlson believes doesn't mean they're *good*) - but thanks to SB189, they are way less dangerous to democracy than they might be.
But not if Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger gets his way. Raffensperger is another guy who was drafted into The Resistance(TM) after he refused to commit election fraud for Trump, but he's *also* not *good*.
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Cory Doctorow
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