2020 United States presidential election - Conspiracy theories, alleged fraud, etc
 

Let's get all the ******** out of the way.

Which states have special election laws that the CTists have interpreted as "suspicious" ?

What about the 138,000+ votes in Michigan that were "100 percent" for Biden?

I assume this was just a snapshot in time and the keyboard warriors were doing their armchair arithmetic from their computers. Is there any word from the actual election stations about what caused that?

Any evidence that actually happened at all?

Twitter and Facebook from what I've seen.

I am expecting great things from that Qanon wackjob just elected from Tennesee to the US COngress...

Ah, Tennessee... the natural home of consipiritards

Same places where aliens were confirmed by Bob Woodward after he was beamed aboard their spaceship by Hillary Clinton from Comet Ping Pong pizza parlour. So obviously they are journals of record. :rolleyes:

Until some reputable source produces any evidence, not even worth considering beyond having a laff.

FTFY

The conspiracy and fraud claims related to this election are pure tantrum. I expect them to continue.

The Republican party's plan seems clear. Where possible, prevent the preprocessing of absentee votes, which were projected to favor Democrats. That means in-person voting, which was predicted to favor Republican candidates, makes it look like a Republican win on election night. Then file lawsuits to prevent counting absentee votes, on the grounds that it's improper to do so or that it's being done improperly. Argue that the swing to the left means the "abnormally" cast votes are probably fraudulently cast, since they don't statistically resemble the "normal" votes cast on Election Day. Then rely on the judiciary to invalidate votes that are unfavorable to their candidates.

I get how they might have hoped to fool the general public with this, to cast doubt on the validity of a Biden victory. But how they thought this could get past a court is beyond me. What I've seen of the lawsuits are laughably flimsy. And we've seen at least one of them summarily dismissed. If the plan is to foment conspiracy theories, why take the extra step of adding a filing fee to it? I doubt many of these lawsuits will make it very far.

From the wonderful state that gave us the Monkey trial....
The Qanon kook makes Sarah Palin look like a greaking genius.

As posted in another thread by Galaxie :

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/p...ts/6182506002/

if true, this is a clear case of Election Fraud, incited by the Trump Campaign.

"SharpieGate" seems to be going around. It's a claim that AZ vote was rigged by giving Trump voters sharpies (permanent markers) to fill their ballots out, which would be rejected as invalid by the voting machine. The idea being that in person voting favored Trump, so poll workers sabotaged the process by giving out improper markers at the polls to decrease turnout.

This was pretty much debunked right away, but it's still going around conservative social media.

Sharpies are actually fine to vote with and don't cause any problems. They actually are preferred as they are fast drying and dont smear nearly as much.

as long as the MAGA crowd doesn't learn about the Space Brain Laser in Hillary's garage our plan should work.

Trump himself has used absentee voting for ages, hasn't he?

So, is he actually admitting that he has engaged in electoral fraud? And many members of his family...Are they all fraudsters?

I'm not even sure it rises to the level of competence required for commission of an actual offence. It's entirely based on the presumption that there are literally thousands of potential Trump voters who registered for postal votes in good time for the election but were too lazy or too stupid to return them, and now can be motivated to get off their arses and send them in late to save the day at the eleventh hour (well, you know what I mean). If these people were too ******* idle to send their ballots in on time, why are they going to get off their arses and send them in now?

Dave

"your Honor, yes, my Client conspired to have someone killed, but come on! He clearly never had a chance to succeed because the plan was so dumb! You have to dismiss all charges"!

Well, if his planned method was to point a stick at someone and shout "bang!"...

Dave

This question might be better asked here rather than the election thread: has there ever been a notable case of election fraud in the history of the US? If so, any in the past fifty years?

Absentee voting is perfectly fine. It's voting by mail that's rife with fraud and needs to be disqualified.

What's the difference? Well obviously it ... What's that over there?!? {Smokebomb} (Sneak out the back door)

Election fraud, yes. Voter fraud -- a subset of election fraud -- yes, but almost unheard of. Election fraud includes such things as deceptive voter suppression tactics, improper mass handling of ballots, improper mass registrations, and a whole lot of stuff that can be committed before the election occurs. Some have had the potential to affect results. Most do not.

Voter fraud in the past fifty years has almost never occurred. That's stuff like casting someone else's absentee ballot, trying to vote more than once, voting when you're not registered or eligible, voting in a district other than where you live. The major university study that passed quickly under my eyes in the past few days (murky, so I don't recall citations or accurate details) identified on the order of 1,500 cases of voter fraud or attempted voter fraud in 2 billion votes cast. For any given vote in the 2020 Presidential election, that's a prior probably of p < 7.5 × 10^-7 that the vote was cast fraudulently.

In my home state of Utah we've voted almost exclusively by mail for the past 10 years. We have a very robust, effective, and efficient protocol for handling ballots accountably, including bipartisan observation and control.

However, this is the first year our primary elections were done by mail. The Republican primary is a closed election, so the clerks had to introduce provisions to send ballots to, and make eligible, only registered Republican voters. The Democrats previously had a primary caucus, which they abandoned this year because of the pandemic in favor of an open primary (any eligible voter can vote). And for the first time, 17-year-olds could register to vote if they would turn 18 on or before Election Day. But due to a programming error, primary election ballots were sent prematurely to those 17-year-olds. But because they're barcoded, it was a trivial matter to instruct the tally computer to reject those if they were somehow submitted. There is a bipartisan audit trail for everything like that.

The other thing that has happened in my state is that parents have filled out mail-in ballots for their sons and daughters serving out of town as Mormon missionaries. State law allows them to vote as absentees in that case, and the ballots were completed at the instructions of the actual voters. The parents just acted as proxies. But this is still very illegal, and they got caught. The signature-matching test failed. Ballots cannot be forwarded, but it's the voter's responsibility to make sure it's mailed to the address where they are physically located.

In short, the claims that voter fraud is a serious problem, or has been at any time in the recent past, have no basis in historical fact.

Thanks. My impression is that, apart from GOP efforts to (legally if questionably) suppress and shape voting, there has been no significant problem with election fraud or voter fraud in the US. I just wanted a more informed opinion :)

She has not even taken the Oath yet, and already Marjorie Taylor Green, the Qanon kook elected to the House;is off to a great start...picking a fight with a prominent fellow GOP Congressman on the grounds he does not love D ear Leader enough:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...er-spat-434751

Man, I knew she would provide much amusement, but I was not expecting it to start this soon..
Guaranteed, in a few months The GOPers in the house will hate her much more then the House Dems;pretty clear she considers most of her fellow GOP congressmen as members of the Deep State.

Here is Texas we used to have voters rise from the grave to vote for LBJ.:jaw-dropp Surely that counts as voter fraud? :confused:

Our Governor has been particularly active in trying to suppress votes from non-usual sources this years only to have his initiatives disallowed by the courts. It only antagonises fair minded people that might otherwise support him in matters of common interest, moving the state more blue.

Not in the distinction I made, but certainly in the broader sense. Voter fraud is the kind of fraud that one voter (or many voters acting individually, but with the same intent) could perpetrate. That occurs at a negligible rate. The larger category of election fraud deserves more attention, and that would include things like Johnson and the infamous Senate (I think?) election of 1948, which is what eerok was asking about, and did occur from time to time in the past, but not so much anymore as automation has taken over registration and verification. The distinction between voter fraud and election fraud is perhaps not relevant to his question. In any case, I guess it depends on what you want to call the recent past.

Texas Sharpie Fallacy.

There was fraud in a North Carolina Congressional District race a few years back. As I recall it was bad enough that the results of the election were thrown out and a special election was held later.

ETA: This was the 2018 race in NC 09.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...about-it-much/

Except there never was a moment, from the time the first results started trickling in, where any of the networks had Turnip up in the electoral votes projected, state by state. From the minute the states started to be "called" for one side or the other, Biden was ahead, and stayed ahead. And that lasted through the entire four days after the election, until the whole thing finally came to an end. So it never really DID look like a Republican win on election night.

Not that any of that means a Republican FAIL, mind you. I'm pretty sure this wasn't a FAIL, or if it was maybe possibly a FAIL, it was a winning FAIL.

Oh, yeah. I remember that. It's pretty much a given that election hijinx is the province of the GOP.

AKA 'Pointing the bone'*? Might work... :eek:


* See Kurdaitcha on Wikipedia.

Biden admits it.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRn...ature=emb_logo

That makes it even funnier that Trump lost.

Hell yeah, the commies stole it. I personally drove a uhaul of votes into Philly. Afterwards Soros bought us all pizza to thank us for our hard work.

That's President-elect Biden to you.

You know what's even more shocking? There are police forces that have serious crime squads!

Dave

ETA: Read https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bi...t-voter-fraud/

That's the one I was thinking of when I said it's comparatively rare. And again, the distinction between voter fraud and election fraud may not be important. But I hope to distinguish the cases where we there is misconduct on the part of election officials, party officials, and so forth from cases where the voters themselves commit fraud.

It's not clear in this case to what extent the intended recipients of the individual absentee ballots may have acted in bad faith. If they request a ballot they are lawfully allowed to receive, complete it, and give it to someone else to deliver to the election official, then it's difficult to say the voter has committed fraud. There may be laws governing who may handle completed ballots, but it's not clear here that there was nefarious intent.

On the other hand, if a voter requests an absentee ballot in order to let other operators complete and return it on their behalf, then the voter will have colluded with the operator to commit fraud.

I admit that I learned more about the US electoral process this time around than I did any other, and I'm less concerned about its fragility than I was when this election began. I thought it was easier to commit both kinds of fraud -- electoral and voting -- than appears to be the case.

Anyway, it's obvious that Trump will fail in his tantrum-driven attacks on the election. There's far too large a margin here, not to mention that the facts seem to be against him.

.....to be surfacing in FaceBook comments:

Facebook comments . . . Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

I see "Avoid the material. Attack the source"

Bare assertions and baseless claims do not evidence make. I reiterate: Facebook comments . . .

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Its someone's opinion.

As are most statements seen above.