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We do have explanations for the dead voters though:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/08/t...ing/index.html Explanations: - two people having an identical name - completely legal votes using a temporary default birthdate (usually January 1900, which sounds like what the 120 year old woman would be about) - other clerical errors - genuine long-living individuals At any rate, even if an actual dead person had voted, that vote would have been thrown out in line with counting procedures. This is also true for people who died after having voted but before election day. |
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Apologies for my absolutely brilliant first post. It was indeed a pocket post. I read that and wondered who that dumbass was and then realized it was me.
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Somebody on Twitter took the time to go through all the claimed voting fraud occurrences. Good thread.
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Re: The vote fraud. The problem is that we're just dealing with rumors and I heard this person say that thing and there was a video on youtube and etc. etc. When all is said and done, it has the same failings as all the other conspiracy theories.
How do you actually do it? In order to make it happen, the shadowy "them" can't do it. Very specific people have to execute very specific actions in such a way that those actions are not revealed to the public. I wish I had the project management skills to add 10,000 votes to Joe Biden's totals without being exposed, but I don't. Every scheme I think of requires the active participation of people who have every incentive to sxpose me. But....I'm certainly for a careful deliberate look for voting fraud. We had one, with quite a big budget overseen by President Trump after the 2016 election, but it didn't turn up anything. So let's have another one, except I might go for a smaller budget this time. Recounts? Absolutely. Count them. I haven't heard that Georgia has cancelled their recount. Go fort it. Once again there might be some budget issues, but at least, say, the two closest states. What would that be? Georgia and Arizona. Sure, why not? Last time around Jill Stein paid 3.5 million dollars for a recount. Surely Trump has enough that he could afford that, whether his own money or his campaign's. If any states are close enough to trigger a free recount, then by all means reacount. And it's not because I'm confident Biden would still win. I am, but that's a secondary notion. The President of the United States has alleged fraud. That is so, incredibly, dangerous and damaging to our country. We ought to do whatever it takes to correct that damage, and recounts would be one part of that. And those "serious abnormalities"? Well, if there are serious abnormalities, then not only should they be investigated, the results of that investigation should be clear and transparent, and the report should include explaining why the "serious abnormalities" weren't really serious or abnormal, except in the sense that the circumstances of this election were pretty seriously abnormal right from the beginning. |
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Exactly, although I doubt most states would catch the fact that certain people died after having filled out their absentee ballots. I doubt the information systems are linked well enough to catch that. Maybe some states have taken steps to do that. Dead people on the voter rolls has been an issue for a long time, just because how would the people running the registration system know that someone had died?
When I say I have no explanation for that one that I saw on video, I just mean I can't tell you exactly how that one vote ended up being cast. I think it would be helpful to, somewhere, describe exactly how that happened, as an illustration of how something can be made to look suspicious when, in reality, it's quite straightforward ETA: I wrote the above before I clicked on the link. I had thought that the link would be a sort of generic description, as opposed to dealing with the specific examples from the previously posted videos. I'm surprised that they can catch the "died before election day" cases. At any rate, I think these sorts of journalistic investigations are extremely important. Sadly, there will be people who are unconvinced, no matter how much evidence is put before them, but such is the nature of humanity.. |
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I appreciate what you say, but this is creating a never-ending cycle of claim-investigation-debunking in which those people claiming voter fraud are never satisfied because even if this case is explained (and they may not be satisfied with any explanation), what about the next case ?
Even if a handful of cases are proven, that merely confirms what the MSM has been saying - that voter fraud isn't entirely absent, but that the incidence is incredibly low and it has no influence on the outcome. OTOH that handful of cases is merely grist to the GOP conspiracy mill and proof positive that millions of people voted fraudulently. I've had experience with UK government benefits systems and we've had our share of unfeasibly old people. It tends to come down to one of two things:
People actually trying to subvert the system use "valid" data - makes it easier to slip through the net. edited to add.... Comprehensively ninja'd by Olmstead ![]() |
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Valid point. Something that I will watch with interest is how trump will continue to badger elected Republicans from the sidelines over the next indeterminate period of time.
It's not a new concept in politics, but trump is now a monster of their own making and while they may have enjoyed his assaults on Democratic participants, they've never been able to rein him in or control him as they may have hoped to have been able to when he first started his mindless rampage. They're still going to feel teeth. As evidenced by Eric's tweet, "Where is the GOP? Our voters will not forget", the trumps view trump voters as their weapon, and you can be sure those will be wielded against Republicans in the future. |
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Not quite. Winning the popular vote would require that.
Winning the electoral college would require the cumulative difference in the swing states, a couple of hundred thousand - maybe ? ![]() I mean it's still a ridiculously large number and would not require a large sample BUT almost all of those who are arguing that the election has been influenced by fraudulent votes are doing so in bad faith. There is literally no evidence they will accept that there hasn't been large-scale voter fraud and the handful of examples which are found will be proof positive that the election has been stolen. Indeed, for them, the lack of evidence of large scale voter fraud is proof positive that it must exist and clear evidence of how good the cover up is. ![]() |
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But he didn’t say that he trusted Trump’s word, he was referring to other evidence that he had seen.
I could of course be wrong and equally of course if I am wrong I would retract my comment about him being a barefaced liar, all it would take is for him to provide the evidence that he claims he has seen. But unless he does I am going to judge his latest claim to be yet another lie. |
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The weather forecast makes a big difference but as someone with pets who need to be kept in when fireworks are likely I can say that bonfire night itself, and the Saturdays before and after it, are the only days on which I lock the catflap before it gets dark. Families with young children tend to prefer an evening which isn't a school night. As bonfire night was a Thursday this year I expected Saturday 7th to be the day most families let off fireworks in their gardens around where I live, and I was right.
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Yeah, I've definitely seen people claiming fireworks in the UK as being because of Biden, when fireworks around this time of year have been happening since long before Joe Biden was even born.
I wonder how many people who thought it was because of Biden would nonetheless recognise a Guy Fawkes mask thanks to V For Vendetta and Anonymous? |
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I can see two things he said.
"I personally have seen enough evidence going around to put us well beyond the point of justifying a careful, deliberate look and recount in specific states." At no point does he specify that the "evidence going around" is anything more than Trump's claims and those of his retinue. If his required burden of proof is so pathetically low, then that's his business, and for certain there's no reason to suggest the courts should be that gullible, but it says more about his credulity and personal bias than his honesty. "There are some serious abnormalities." (1) He doesn't actually say that this is part of the evidence; but, (2) Yes, there are of course some serious abnormalities, arising from the fact that there's a pandemic in progress, intelligent and well-informed people have mostly chosen to limit their exposure to the pandemic by voting by mail, intelligent and well-informed people for the most part do not support Trump, and the system has been rigged wherever Trump has been able to bring it about such that the votes of intelligent and well-informed people who so limited their exposure to a deadly disease were not counted until after those of ignorant and stupid people who believed a demagogue who exhorted them to risk their lives. Though, again, intelligent and well-informed people understand that this has no bearing on the question of whether the election was unfair, I can see that the ignorant and stupid might well consider it evidence of foul play. Since Skeptic Tank at no point suggests that this is in fact his argument, one cannot comment further. Dave |
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Fox News is reporting that Trump is planning to start rallies again.
Get ready, the circus is coming to town. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...ection-results |
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saw that:
Trump to go on rallies, dig up dead people and see if their signature matches the record at polling place FOX news
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'recount teams'?
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First Barr, now Pence is missing too.
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Jesus wept.
"The American people should be able to have confidence in the integrity of their democratic election processes. So...how do we further that?" "I know! We'll litigate the hell out of this one in court! And, since we don't have the evidence for fraud that will actually make a difference in the law courts, we'll litigate the whole thing at rallies!" |
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I think I recently read Trump was losing 9-0 in motions concerning the election and vote counting.
Which misses the point. Trump’s goal in going to the courts is rarely to win. It’s to delay, obfuscate, intimidate and in civil cases to wear down his opponents financially. It’s disgusting how effective his weaponizing of the judicial process has been - at least up to now. After January 20 we’ll get to see if these tactics continue to work for him. I suspect they will - at least until the money to pay lawyers runs out. |
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Matt Schlapp tweeted
@mschlapp We are now aware of 698 verified cases, and thousands more reported, where people were unable to verify if their vote was counted. The reason for this is the Nevada secretary of state’s website is barely functional. Election observers from the United Nations would be appalled at the lack of transparency and the shocking number of vulnerabilities in Nevada’s ballot-counting process. |
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Washington Examiner tweeted
@dcexaminer Dead voters. Biden van full of ballots. Trump legal team details shock Nevada claims NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada — President Trump's Nevada legal team beefed up its legal challenge to mail-in ballot signature verification in the state with startling claims of voter and ballot fraud. washingtonexaminer.com |
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