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BigmanPigman

(54,596 posts)
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:47 PM Yesterday

DU Poll: Do you believe there will be fair and transparent midterms elections and results?

Last edited Sat Jan 10, 2026, 09:59 PM - Edit history (1)


51 votes, 5 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Yes, the US Constitution will be upheld for the 2026 midterms
14 (27%)
Yes, there will be midterm elections but not fair or transparent
31 (61%)
Yes, the majority of citizens who are vote will as informed contituents
0 (0%)
Yes, the majority of citizens will vote but not as informed constituents
0 (0%)
Neither, people won't vote due to confusion regarding the MAGA agenda/MSM
0 (0%)
The tRump admin's agenda will stop fair midterms so none will take place
3 (6%)
The tRump agenda will continue to lie so all midterms results are not going to be fair
2 (4%)
No
1 (2%)
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DU Poll: Do you believe there will be fair and transparent midterms elections and results? (Original Post) BigmanPigman Yesterday OP
I don't think our elections are transparent because no human can oversee what is happening in the software questionseverything Yesterday #1
States with strong election infrastructure and Secretaries of State with Maru Kitteh Yesterday #2
Too many options but still not what I suspect will happen. BoycottTwitter Yesterday #3
Hear, hear!!! BigmanPigman 23 hrs ago #6
So do you think you can get the whole county to bring their receipts and count them? questionseverything 17 hrs ago #13
I cannot see the future, but I don't see a good one coming Johonny 23 hrs ago #4
I'm not as concerned about the counting of vote as the voting districts are by county. surfered 23 hrs ago #5
Oh fawk......I really don't know.....fawking tRump will DO ALL HE CAN TO DELAY, DESTROY, & DELETE all elections. a kennedy 23 hrs ago #7
Just like when people worried about this under Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush, yes EdmondDantes_ 23 hrs ago #8
An option is missing. "NO" NewHendoLib 23 hrs ago #9
I'll make that an option. Thanks. BigmanPigman 23 hrs ago #10
There will be valid midterm elections orangecrush 22 hrs ago #11
There will be ratfuckery, chicanery and shenanigans aplenty Fiendish Thingy 21 hrs ago #12
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave 17 hrs ago #14
What then do you suggest? Torchlight 8 hrs ago #16
There will be midterms Boo1 17 hrs ago #15
Despite all dip does, yes. Kid Berwyn 8 hrs ago #17
Have folks so quickly forgotten this last November's elections? PeaceWave 6 hrs ago #18

questionseverything

(11,585 posts)
1. I don't think our elections are transparent because no human can oversee what is happening in the software
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:51 PM
Yesterday

But I expect mid terms to be worse than usual

Maru Kitteh

(31,273 posts)
2. States with strong election infrastructure and Secretaries of State with
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:53 PM
Yesterday

integrity will be fair. Others will be various combinations of something else.

BoycottTwitter

(100 posts)
3. Too many options but still not what I suspect will happen.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:54 PM
Yesterday

I think there's a very high chance we'll have midterms and I believe we must fight very hard and talk to as many people as possible an do everything we can to have real deep conversations with people in hopes of eroding Trump's support. I believe the less popular Trump is in November the higher the chances of having fair midterms. No matter what though we're likely going to see additional hostilities and difficulties with voting. It's not going to be the conspiracy theory stuff about the machines and all that but it's going to be things like voter roll purges, gerrymandering in red states, sporadic threats and attacks and maybe intimidation from federal agents.

However and this is the really important part: we must ensure that everyone votes even those who believe the election will be unfair because large turnout is how you counteract unfair elections. We really need to drill in people's heads that voting is super important and everyone must do it even if it will be difficult for them (actually I think most people are going to still find voting to be easy). People should make a plan to vote and consider voting early in person if they have a chance. If the elections do turn out to be unfair it will make a lot of people upset because they knew they voted Democrat but it got changed to Republican. We'll hopefully demand better and demand fair elections if this happens.

In the past people have died for the right to vote. I don't think anyone in 2026 will need to do that. But we should remind people of our past and we must all vote to preserve our right to vote.

One thing I suggest if you're in a state that allows it please take a picture of your ballot so you have record of how you voted. In addition if you could get some kind of confirmation or receipt about how you voted that would be great too.

questionseverything

(11,585 posts)
13. So do you think you can get the whole county to bring their receipts and count them?
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 03:05 AM
17 hrs ago

Receipts wouldn’t change anything

Pictures of ballots are illegal so you can’t sell your vote

It’s so odd that people who can plainly see *rump and company doing every illegal thing, immoral thing in the book but rigging machines that have proprietary software to win an election is just a step too far

One thing I believe you are correct about is the more votes that have to change the more chance it will show, trouble is even when there are “shows “ it’s illegal to actually have human beings count the votes



Johonny

(25,506 posts)
4. I cannot see the future, but I don't see a good one coming
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 09:05 PM
23 hrs ago

Shit is going to roll downhill fast.

The Trump administration is built upon Mount Bullshit and when the dam breaks, the flood is coming.

We're spending trillions more than we have, and about to jack interest rates really low. The economy isn't creating jobs and salaries are not moving. Young people graduating this spring face a bleak jobs market for them. As we see more and more young people out of work . . . protests going to start raging. Really, if unemployment spikes, it could be a long hot summer in the US

surfered

(11,620 posts)
5. I'm not as concerned about the counting of vote as the voting districts are by county.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 09:05 PM
23 hrs ago

I’m more concerned about voter suppression..id’s, not enough voting machines in Dem districts, eliminating voters from rolls, etc

a kennedy

(35,346 posts)
7. Oh fawk......I really don't know.....fawking tRump will DO ALL HE CAN TO DELAY, DESTROY, & DELETE all elections.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 09:09 PM
23 hrs ago

EdmondDantes_

(1,393 posts)
8. Just like when people worried about this under Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush, yes
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 09:10 PM
23 hrs ago

There will be attempts to make voting harder, there's gerrymandering, but there's still no realistic chances of votes being flipped or counts changed.

orangecrush

(28,542 posts)
11. There will be valid midterm elections
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 10:22 PM
22 hrs ago

With Trump's cult doing everything they possibly can to monkeywrench it.

They will at best succeed in tying a lot of results up in court, but eventually the voice of the people will be heard.

Fiendish Thingy

(22,083 posts)
12. There will be ratfuckery, chicanery and shenanigans aplenty
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 11:16 PM
21 hrs ago

But that won’t stop The Blue Tsunami in November.

Response to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Boo1

(150 posts)
15. There will be midterms
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 03:53 AM
17 hrs ago

and one side will be certain they were fair and one will be certain they were stolen.


That's also true for every other election in this atmosphere.

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