• MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
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    5 hours ago

    These sorts of conspiracies are so delightfully silly. You have to believe that there’s one level of incompetent DNC leadership that has their emails leaked, loses in court but behind and above that is a secret cabal of highly competent DNC staff who also didn’t have their emails hacked who also manage to coordinate and operate a massive set of electoral fraud across some 30 or 40 different states, all without a whiff of evidence all of which simultaneously either completely contradicts the exit polling OR also involves most major news outlets while never being leaked…

    It’s just an amazing example of wishful thinking, on the same level of plausibility as microchips in the vaccines.

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      5 hours ago

      If you go ahead and list all the safeguards and double checks of any computer voting of the state of your choice. I think if you try to do this in good faith you will quickly realize that there are many unknowns. Or you will realize you have to simply accept you are out of your depth of knowledge. This applies to red and blue states. In the end, you have to take it on faith things are proper.

      The fact that one can count votes and in a way all can be satisfied about, like in the Uk or France, simply is ignored. Indeed, once someone has faith in the process, these details are not important.

      And this is not just a few people in the thread here, who have strong faith in the computer voting, it’s a political wall that stops all progress.

      completely contradicts the exit polling

      National use of exit polling, by media companies, to predict federal races, stopped a few years ago because it was too inaccurate. However many do not know that.

      Before that, there was a lot of talk about American exceptionalism and shy republican voters who were too embarrassed to admit they voted for the gop. A phenomenon that is not seen in other countries who also have similar parties.

      This discussion went out of fashion when exit poll predictions stopped. Most people don’t even know what they are now.