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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 168 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I do believe people were calling me alarmist for noticing strange patterns.

Like winning all 7 swing states? Your fucking kidding me right?

Considering how much of a strangle the right has over most media, I didn't consider it surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if it was rigged though.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Also not surprising that investigations weren’t pushed harder after election and before new administration. Biden and Garland should’ve put throttle down on a five-alarm-fire investigation into election. Did they? No. Surprised? Not at all.

Transitions shouldn’t necessarily be smooth if an election was potentially fraudulent — peaceful, yes.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't EVER mention that piece of shit quisling coward Merrick Garland without also cursing him ever again.

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[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 18 points 2 days ago

If Trump had been blowing people out like Reagan did Mondale, ok, but the races were close.

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[–] kinther@lemmy.world 105 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Statistically it is very unlikely this would happen given the votes for other Democrats down ticket. It would be like betting on an old horse to win a race and somehow winning.

[–] Neuromorph@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago

Other irregularities are down ballot Dwmocrat votes. That somehow selected trump he presidents. Such a statistically improbable result

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[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

So wait a minute here guys, you're telling me that the man who was convicted by a unanimous jury of fraud (cheating) in the 2016 election, the same guy who called the governors of various states and asked them to 'find him some votes' in 2020, did not run a clean honest campaign in 2024???

Get the EFF out of here!!

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Leave the Electronic Frontier Foundation out of this.

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[–] korendian@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

So I am very much a numbers and data guy. If there are anomalies, I am very happy to acknowledge them. I am also disgusted by Trump and how he is destroying the country, and voted for Kamala in 2024.

With those caveats out of the way, this whole article and lawsuit is cherry picked bullshit. The precincts in question (yes precincts, not counties as the article states), were extremely red in 2020 as well. Some precincts had 0 votes for Biden. Yet these were not questioned back then. Why? Because Biden won the larger election, so who cares? Why are these alleged anomalies not relevant in 2020, but suddenly relevant now? Bare in mind, these were precincts that went strongly for Clinton in 2016, and did a full reversal in 2020.

What was the difference between the two election cycles exactly? The village is 100% Hasidic. Clinton was viewed as pro Israel, and Biden as anti-israel. That is the explanation. This lawsuit will be dismissed, I am certain of it. As much as I would love to see Trump arrested and thrown in jail for something like this, the evidence is not there to support it.

You can check these numbers out yourself by checking the New York times detailed election map for each election year and searching for Ramapo, NY.

EDIT: Actually, upon further research, the shift from Clinton to Trump is much more interesting than I thought. Apparently she met with community leaders in her Senate race, during the same time her husband was president. Some community members at that time were involved in a criminal scandal involving a fraudulent Hasidic school at that time. She was overwhelmingly voted for by this town. Shortly after, her husband commuted these individuals sentences. So clearly the community remembered this. The town is called new square, you can read about the alleged quid pro quo scandal on Wikipedia.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Biden is anti-Israel?

I’ve heard that Biden is a Zionist though so hoe could those both be true?

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (9 children)

This is why manual hand counted votes still happen to this day in Canada and Australia. They both faced the same MAGA threat and the lib won.

Yes it takes longer. And sometimes results will take weeks to resolve but at least they don’t end up in a situation like this where the entire system is so corrupt 4 months later it’s near impossible to fix it.

[–] Enkimaru@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Same in Germany

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 76 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Why didn't the democrats demand hand recounts when the election was initially called? It felt like they all just rolled over and accepted defeat.

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No fuckin idea. Didn't make sense then, either. We were so afraid to look like the crazy MAGAs. Their tactic worked.

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Probably same reason they just gave up in Gore v Bush.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (5 children)

They didn't give up. The supreme Court decided Bush won Florida, without a recount.

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[–] pigup@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Because they were following their billionaire overlord's orders? Because they are controlled opposition?

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 day ago (13 children)

OK, next question: Let's say we do a 'recount' at this hour, assuming the evidence isn't already lost, what then?

Think he's going to go, ohh my bad?

Think he's going to leave willingly?

Think the court case will even be appropriately handled once it goes to the SCOTUS.

Think the SCOTUS will even hear it?

How is it 100 days later, we just now hear about this?

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the best outcome would be that it might uncover deliberate malfeasance that might prompt some folks in congress to do what is needed. I wouldn't be optimistic though.

Slightly more likely is that such discovery would drive the public towards a congressional swing away from his enablers at the next congressional election next year, assuming we have it. I'm moderately more optimistic on that, apparently such a swing is already forming, but to what extent isn't clear.

We can't undo the election results, the congressional count done on jan 6 is definitive.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Best case scenarios aren't really on the table. Doesn't mean you stop fighting.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's...not 100 days later. Its about 190 days later.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 days ago (31 children)

To paraphrase Bush v Gore over negative votes in Florida after the SC sent the case to a lower court and it was appealed back to them

it’s been so long since the election that it would be unfair to change the outcome now

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[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 59 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I always had a feeling that the election was a bit too quickly decided. I’ve said before that in the coming months and years after the 2024 election we would find out something fishy was happening.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That’s honestly what got me too. Like it took a week for them to get all of the results from 2020, and sure, that could’ve been all the mail in ballots, but then you have Rogan saying elongated muskrat had called the election the night OF voting?

I don’t know man. I’ve seen a few elections now and don’t remember that happening.

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm very much against conspiracy theories, especially concerning our elections which are administered by many many independent entities. I was very concerned as I watched electronic voting machines - especially without paper trails - become more and more popular over the past 30 years. Even more as the industry consolidated and it came down to a handful of private, for-profit manufacturers.

The thing I've read about that is keeping the door of conspiracy open in my mind is the "drop off" rate, which has to do with the number of "President only" ballots, where only the President is chosen, and no down ballot votes are cast.

Apparently Trump's ballots have an unusually high - like statistically unlikely - drop off. And it's either only in or mostly in/more pronounced in swing states.

Even Chris Titus picked it up (3 hrs total, sorry)

https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs - Part 1 https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0 - Part 2

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So on one hand: Harris won NY State by a 10% margin.

On the other hand: if vote machines were tampered with then it likely doesn't stop there.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this isn’t really about that one specific district. It’s about all the other districts that were also likely tampered with.

[–] tinkling4938@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Trump didn't even try to get elected. Total fuck it all pill during his running like he knew he was going to win, then he wins by a huge margin electorally and the popular vote. It was surreal.

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[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Felon practically admitted this last week.

The guy said the Democrats would control the House and even gave numbers for the Republicans in the Senate. What more do people need?

[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

our election was, literally, stolen. Trump and his fascists have spent years calling his loss to Biden “stolen” which ultimately harmed any real attempts at calling out future election results. many statisticians are sounding the alarm bells—something is wrong. the data doesn’t lie and the voting heavily implies manipulation. there is a group investigating our election results and making their findings public. they are very concerned with what they are uncovering.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oops forgot to make the lie a little more believable.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

After HitlerPig's 2025 State of the Union speech, new Democratic senator Elissa Slotkin gave the Democratic response, and tried to sell the idea that millions of people in her state voted for her for Senator, but Trump for president.

This past weekend, Amy Klobuchar tried to sell that same fantasy on Meet The Press - that millions in her state voted for her, but also voted for HitlerPig.

I'm sure there are a few people who split their vote, but they have to be as rare as white squirrels. There are supposed to be millions of them, so many that HitlerPig even won EVERY battleground state (an exceptionally unlikely outcome), but I've never heard one actual voter claim they voted a straight Democratic ticket, except HitlerPig for president. It sounds ridiculous when you actually say it.

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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I will point out that this cannot change the result of the presidential election, since Trump didn't win the state in question anyway.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 73 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It might open an investigation into other places.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 days ago

It depends on who did the cheating and how prolific it is in other states and counties.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

The point is that it all needs to be looked at and reverified

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This stuff has been going on for a loooong time:

Interview with Stephen Spoonamore on of the electronic voting issues that have been raised for a while now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRW3Bh8HQic

if you want to jump right to his explanation/comparison to his work with securing credit card transactions against "man in the middle" attacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BRW3Bh8HQic#t=873

The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio's vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush's unexpected victory. Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a suspicious small plane crash.

Additionally, the filing contains the contract signed between then-Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Connell's company, GovTech Solutions. Also included that contract a graphic architectural map of the Secretary of State's election night server layout system.

Cliff Arnebeck, lead attorney in the King Lincoln case, exchanged emails with IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore. Arnebeck asked Spoonamore whether or not SmarTech had the capability to "input data" and thus alter the results of Ohio's 2004 election. Spoonamore responded: "Yes. They would have had data input capacities. The system might have been set up to log which source generated the data but probably did not."

Spoonamore explained that "they [SmarTech] have full access and could change things when and if they want."

Arnebeck specifically asked "Could this be done using whatever bypass techniques Connell developed for the web hosting function." Spoonamore replied "Yes."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/2319:new-court-filing-reveals-how-the-2004-ohio-presidential-election-was-hacked

Breakdown of why Electronic voting in general is incredibly insecure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Documentary going into Clint Curtis's story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBtfiRKaVY

(the guy from this video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs

Fractional Voting:

http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/

HBO documentary Hacking Democracy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7W7rHxTsH0

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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

In Volusia County, Florida during the 2000 election Al Gore received negative votes, and I'm sure we all remember how that turned out because everyone on this site is old as fuck so let's temper our excitement this time around.

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

always thought it suspicious there was soooo many reds when the final count was in.

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