I clicked through the link. Where are the examples of HN democrats "lobbying against secured voting machines and paper ballots"? I see HN users decrying Trump's vague self-serving complaints, but nothing against secure voting. Just because I hate sloppy programmers who blindly say that a program is probably going to crash because that's what programs "just do" but it doesn't mean I'm against testing or error handling.
> I see HN users decrying Trump's vague self-serving complaints
By responding to Trump's accusations by saying that the election wasn't rigged or hackable, Democrats undermined all of the folks who were actually trying to fix these issues. It doesn't matter if Trump said the election was rigged 'for the wrong reasons' or whatever, saying that the election wasn't hackable was absolutely the worst possible response.