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Yesterday we witnessed an increasingly rare phenomenon: We the People won at the ballot box.

In Ohio and Mississippi voters successfully killed two bills that furthered the Union-Busting, Women-Hating agenda of the extreme right. Senate Bill 5 was defeated by a massive statewide labor coalition, fighting to reclaim their right to collectively bargain in the Buckeye State. In the Bible Belt, women  — and more than a few good southern men — stood together to defeat an initiative that would have defined life at the beginning of fertilization, a head-on challenge to Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose.

We’re happy, of course, for the workers of Ohio who still own their voices, and the women in Mississippi who still own their bodies. But there’s a real downside to yesterday’s news for progressive-minded Election Integrity activists.

Every time “our side” wins at the voting booth, it becomes much more difficult to talk about our favorite topic: computerized election fraud.

So what the hell happened? What to make of this bump in the road under the Apocalypse Juggernaut Express our country has become? Why didn’t they rig the Trojan Horse computerized voting machines like we damn well know they can do? What stopped them this time?

The fact is that we don’t know — and we never will. We can speculate, that’s all. Because our votes are still counted in the electronic dark by secret, proprietary software, none of us can say with certainty what happened in any given election.