r/PoursTea • u/Federal-Compote-5015 • 5h ago

Law&CrimeTea ⚖️ 🫆 Multiple Reports of Voting Machines Flipping Votes to Republican Candidates Automatically

This isn’t just happening in Tennessee. There are reports of voters in other states experiencing touchscreen voting machines changing their selections from Democratic to Republican candidates.

Please check, double-check, and TRIPLE-CHECK your ballot before submitting it. Make sure every vote reflects your choice. If something looks wrong, alert a poll worker before casting your ballot.

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u/SmallTimeCook 4h ago

You do not understand the 3/5ths compromise. It actually would’ve been better for black people to be 0/5 in that situation.

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u/DillBagner 3h ago

It was the other way around. The Three-Fifths compromise was in 1787. Slaves had no right to vote. Slave States wanted them to count toward their population for representation, without giving them the right to vote.

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u/FuriouslyEloquent 3h ago

I believe their point was, from the modern anti-slavery perspective, it would have been better had the slaves not contributed to their census population. Meanwhile the post they had responded to had a somewhat ambiguous implication that counting slaves fully would be morally better. Both comments should have been clearer about it being slaves than simply black folk, as free blacks were fully counted in slave states.