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In reply to the discussion: Magats Stole The Election By Disenfrancement And Purges [View all]Wiz Imp
(10,517 posts)33. I read the article. There is no evidence presented. Just numbers apparently pulled out of thin air.
He pretends to present evidence but offers nothing to verify. For example, He says:
Now, lets do some arithmetic. If we take the lowest end of the MIT ballot rejection rate, and only a tenth of the lost ballot rate, and then apply it to the number of mail-in and drop-box ballots, we can conservatively estimate that 2,121,000 mail-in votes went into the electoral dumpster.
I'll assume the MIT number is 2.9% because that is the only number he presents elsewhere in the article. Yet nowhere does he list the number of mail-in or drop-box ballots. Where is he getting that number from? Almost all the numbers he gives in the text of the article are from past elections, some as far back as 2000. He's apparently extrapolating those old numbers to 2024, but without providing actual 2024 numbers to back up the extrapolations. In addition, there is no evidence that actions/ratios from past elections would still apply at the same rates in 2024. I tried verifying a bunch of his numbers and couldn't confirm a single one as accurate.
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We know about the disenfranchisement and voter purges, but how about Elon's "vote counting computers"?
sop
Jan 2025
#4
Why the double standard? We had years of GOP 'activists' telling us the election in 2020 was 'rigged'
PatrickforB
Jan 2025
#17
Well, I'm not going back and researching newspaper & other journalistic accounts for you...
Hekate
Jan 2025
#20
Everybody knows there is voter suppression and that is a big part of Republican strategy
Wiz Imp
Jan 2025
#29
You need evidence given all of the open and conspicuous effort of the GOP machine to subvert
KPN
Jan 2025
#26
Absolutely I need evidence. Anybody can just make up numbers and say they show that Trump lost
Wiz Imp
Jan 2025
#32
So you're saying that Palast made up numbers? BTW, nothing in my comment says that I think
KPN
Jan 2025
#37
I'm not saying Palast made up the numbers. I'm saying he gave no evidence for me to trust they are
Wiz Imp
Jan 2025
#39
I read the article. There is no evidence presented. Just numbers apparently pulled out of thin air.
Wiz Imp
Jan 2025
#33
This is what I have been saying for well over a year, as the gerrymandering & purging have proceeded...
Hekate
Jan 2025
#19