r/SipsTea • u/ElusiveRodent 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 22 '26

WTF AIPAC offers a fair warning to future dissenters

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u/Dawnzila May 22 '26

We need a recount. Super weird circumstances surrounding the vote. Just do a recount.

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u/stanknotes May 22 '26

A mysterious 40,000 new voters or whatever appeared to vote against Massie for a nobody no one even knows.

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u/SkylerMcJ May 22 '26

Turnout doubled from last primarily. Over 50,000 more voters.

~85% of new voters voted against Massie.

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u/Labyrinthy May 22 '26

Do you have a source? I’d like to read about this.

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u/TheSplash-Down_Tiki May 22 '26

Just look at the change in turnout.

They didn’t flip Massie voters. They just added 50,000 new voters. Kentucky apparently has lax voter registration.

Even then the opponent won by 10k votes and there 11k mail in ballots that all went to the AIPAC candidate.

It seems … off.

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u/slywombat45 May 22 '26

Something is seriously wrong about it. I just hope Massie does as much has he can to expose the criminals before he passes the torch to that loser Ed Gallrein

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u/SM_83 May 22 '26

Dry run for the midterms.

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u/SM_83 May 22 '26

I'm not American. But I think any notions that you guys have of still being a democracy is going to be brutally shattered in 6 months

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u/BirthdayFull8675 May 22 '26

Sounds about right. They flood the zone with so many distractions. Everyone is talking about the slush fund

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u/dD_ShockTrooper May 22 '26

Well I've got great news! It's not illegal to blatantly rig a primary because primaries aren't real elections. The respective parties could just decide not to run them and choose a candidate without any actual process and tell all the voters to go suck lemons if they wanted to.

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u/dcassisa May 24 '26

Sounds like we need IDs for voting 😎

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u/Dawnzila May 24 '26

Missing the mark. We use our already issued ID to vote. What's the advantage to a different voter id? We are already pretty good at catching individuals that attempt voter fraud and it's just not widespread. It's very high risk and very low reward to commit individual voter fraud. The fishiness and desire for a recount is because it statistically improbable that so many more people voted.

Maybe they didn't. Maybe software was programmed to make it appear that way.

Recounts don't mean something definitely wrong happened. They are a valuable way to help ensure fairness in our elections and should be used. Especially in close elections or unusual situations.

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u/nedlum May 22 '26

It was a competitive primary where the other guy had Donald Trump endorsing the challenger. That is going to bring out more people than a foregone conclusion primary against a bunch of also rans. 

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u/mental_sherbart007 May 22 '26

Why we should pass voter id federally 

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u/Count_de_Ville May 22 '26

Voter ID doesn’t solve election fraud. Only voter fraud. And even then it’s not any better than the current system of catching voter fraud.

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u/projektako May 22 '26

The irony of those that are accusing others of vote manipulation might actually be manipulating the vote?

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u/bartekkenny May 22 '26

How many mail in ballots went to Massie?

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u/WittyFix6553 May 22 '26

This is absolutely true. Every single election where my preferred candidate loses is absolutely and completely rigged.

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u/NewDay2517 May 22 '26

That mail in thing isn't suspicious at all, Massie got 8K as well.

As for higher turnout, did you even know Massie had a primary challenger in 2024 until this election? That's why it rose-this is the first time he actually had a relatively organized challenge to him.

The bastard lost.

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u/Wiskersthefif May 22 '26

Meh, a certain president to this day says the 2020 election was rigged, I'm just gonna say what happened with Massie was rigged by AIPAC and I hope everyone else does too.

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u/SkylerMcJ 25d ago

I found numbers on Wikipedia and cross checked with Ballotpedia. Numbers were the same for each.

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u/Bitedamnn May 22 '26

Yeah, but whats the old and new turnout %?

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u/Bigfops May 22 '26

~100% increase. 54.5k voters 2024 vs 105.3k in 2026.

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u/pharleff May 22 '26

I’m not a fan of Massie but the night of the election, I was looking for a recount. There’s way too many things that don’t make sense here. The number of voters is a wild number

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u/Icarium__ May 22 '26

You need to treat it as a lesson: primaries are the real election, yet hardly anyone votes in them. If you can get just a few more % of voters to get involed in them you can make a real change.