Be sure you savor and re-savor this •incredible• right-wing self-own:

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Be sure you savor and re-savor this •incredible• right-wing self-own:

Two “Project Veritas” operatives committed fraud at a Minnesota polling place to prove they wouldn’t get caught

••• and they got caught •••

and both are facing multiple felony charges.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/voting-felony-disguise-minneapolis

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@inthehands ahahahaah very nice. those people are total assholes, we've spent a lot of time over the years doing emotional and community repair work in their wake

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@inthehands Incredible, I *love* that for them.

[joeace967@shakedown.social]

@inthehands They've commited to the bit.

[noiseician@mastodon.world]

@inthehands
that one's hilarious

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@inthehands

not sure if this is legit german but dummheitfreude (taking joy in the stupidity of others) seems to cover this nicely, schadenfreude will cover when they go to jail.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

This was in Minneapolis, so yet again (argh) the national news hits close to home. I’d just like to say something about Minnesota’s elections:

They’re good. They’re really good. They’re arguably the best-run in the country; they consistently have among the highest turnout (and usually •the• highest).

Part of the reason for this is that they are •not• one size fits all. We have:

- mail voting for all
- early voting for all
- election day voting for all

…and if you’re not already registered, you can register:

- with multiple forms of approved ID
- or even more forms of ID + a utility bill
- or a neighbor vouching for you (under penalty of perjury)

…and you can do any of those ••at the polling place on election day.••

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[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

This is the process these Project Veritas bozos thought was insecure. They were wrong.

People hear about Minnesota’s process and think, over and over and over, that they’ve found the flaw, that it’s insecure or messy or unworkable or whatever. They’re always wrong. Every damn time.

We’ve had a few •squeakers• of elections here (like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_Senate_election_in_Minnesota) that have put the whole system under an intense national spotlight: hand recounts, ballot challenges, partisan operatives scouring for anything they can sue about, any whiff of fraud or mishandled process or even just vague doubt.

And Minnesota’s election process has come out shining • every • single • time.

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[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@inthehands

make it easy for everyone to vote and more folks will vote.

of course, the rabid right fear exactly this, since they know they will never attract a legitimate majority of the population to their point of view. keeping folks from voting and other forms of cheating are their only hope of clinging to power.

[seacow@mastodon.art]

@inthehands

[puppethead@ieji.de]

@inthehands Also paper ballots!

[paparouleur@mastodon.social]

@inthehands Never forget the Lizard People ballot

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@inthehands Sounds like they aren't claiming ignorance of the law, just that the law shouldn't be applied to them?

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Note that this attack on Minnesota’s elections was explicitly racist: these bozos dressed in what they thought were Muslim costumes. You might not think that’s a key part of testing an electoral system — but •they• did.

It’s not that they think that people in general are voting who shouldn’t be allowed to vote. It’s that they think that •brown people• are voting who shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

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[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

The Republicans’ nation-wide racist obsession with Minnesota surely stems from an underlying feeling that Minnesota is •supposed to• be white. Other places, like say California or NYC? Oh, whatever, they’re already polluted by the sinister Other, and just need to be contained or beaten into submission. But Minnesota being diverse? Well •that• the right-wingers cannot abide.

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[fcbsd@hachyderm.io]

@inthehands that's how democracy should work

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Such racist assumptions about Minnesota — including from the racists who live here, the racists who (for example) murdered George Floyd — severely misestimate this place. It’s complicated and sometimes ugly complicated, as all places are, but the humanist undercurrents here run •very• deep.

ICE, Veritas, I don’t care. Minnesota may be nice, be we are pros, we take democracy seriously, and we are not fucking around.

/end

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@xgranade

I’m surely they’re delighted to know that election security is strong! *checks article* Wait, nope, they’re whining about it like little babies

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@puppethead
Yup! And a •highly• participatory process at the polling places, •lots• of community volunteer positions

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@inthehands Hopefully, their conviction will influence other 'conservative' criminals.