@soatok The problematic design of Diebold's voting machines was an #infosec topic for years. One of the reasons why Estonia pointedly refused to adopt USA-style machine voting while designing and implementing a crypto-based Internet voting scheme was, well, that.

And, irony of ironies, while conspiracy theorists virtually always talked about ballot stuffing and stuff (there were some long threads about supposedly weird coincidences in county-level tallies which, AFAIK, were thoroughly checked and didn't yield anything actionable), the actual security breach sat in the SCOTUS the whole time. Non-constructive paranoia is weirdly predictable (and exploitable) that way. It tends to prefer the bogeyman to be somewhere close, and to resemble popular tales of historic narratives.

But, strangely enough, The Influencing Machine is also a known paranoid ideation pattern.

@soatok FWIW, I find the moniker 'BlueAnon' to be problematic. It arose as an artificial simulacrum to the QAnon, and is commonly interpreted as indicating a symmetry of "both sides", except there is nothing QAnon-like on either the left side or Democratic Party's side of USA's politics; everything commonly attributed to "BlueAnon" is just small and temporary outbreaks of unfounded gossip.

There's a very interesting write-up of the general pattern by Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. In 1960s, he just described his observations, but the underlying psychology has been thoroughly studied in the decades since, and, well, the systematic paranoia is politically asymmetric.

Ironically, one of the recent developments has been attempts to invent an "LWA", "Left-Wing-Authoritarianism", as a similar both-sides counterpart to RWA, and I believe I have already ranted here about its methodological problems. (Empirically, Altemeyer made kind of a point to look for the left-wing counterpart to RWA as soon as he identified it, back in the eighties, and, basically, what he found is, left-wing brains just don't work the same way, and when they get paranoid, their paranoid ideas — founded or unfounded — are generally not very much like the dominant fascist paranoid ideas, either.)