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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey wailed so loudly about "stealing" the 2020 election and they've made us afraid to say they stole this one.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151923500Take it however you want, I think we have the right to make sure that the massive number of people they got into the counting centers and operating the election didn't cheat us out of it. There's a lot that doesn't look right and doesn't seem very consistent with past patterns, or even with the exit polling data. No harm in checking it out on a large scale and the Republican candidate should be happy to have his straight up honesty confirmed, right?


enid602
(9,490 posts)Once democracy slips away, its hard to get back. SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA will be impossible to retrieve.
Irish_Dem
(72,190 posts)To make the damage is so severe it can never be repaired or reinstated.
Irish_Dem
(72,190 posts)So when the victims report crimes every one is confused.
And victims are afraid to come forward because they are accused of lying.
We can see with the GOP it is an effective strategy.
No one is allowed to ask reasonable questions about the election and
are accused of being "conspiracy theorists."
This is also an old government trick to silence legitimate questions.
FullySupportDems
(357 posts)We should accuse them of it every time they talk crap about Dems. Automatically accuse them of everything they say. It will usually be true too.
Irish_Dem
(72,190 posts)They are telling us about their own wrong doing and crimes.
In a healthy adult society, people tend to put pieces of the puzzle
together and understand they are looking at criminals and liars
who are not respected or tolerated.
But in current day US, Americans admire the liars, criminals, rapists, etc.
ramedy
(185 posts)Pretty weak.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(4,484 posts)We literally cant say they stole it now after beating the tar out of them over their claims the past four years.
And even if its true, itll just look like the sour grapes weve accused them of having.
Theyre great at this shit. I hate them but theyre great at it.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)We can continue to show them they were lying 4 years ago while also calling them out and investigating any crimes they may be committing now.
Yes. We can.
Zeitghost
(4,557 posts)If we have evidence. So far we have none.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)Zeitghost
(4,557 posts)While spreading your BS disinformation here on DU, audits are happening all over the country right now. And so far, not a single irregularity from those conducting the audits has been noted.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)Time is running out.
usaf-vet
(7,603 posts)...... OF COURSE NOT! We will have to dig and find it piece by piece.
This is ridiculous. Many real statistical experts feel/see/believe that something is not right in at least some of the seven swing states.
It will likely worsen if we don't follow their leads.
Remember to listen to Djt and believe what he says. Remember, within the last ninety days.
He repeated the following over and over.
tritsofme
(19,351 posts)The guy is a liar.
Zeitghost
(4,557 posts)In every state. None have turned up anything suspicious.
Lots of good public officials are looking and they haven't found anything.
usaf-vet
(7,603 posts)Progressive dog
(7,499 posts)Trump proved that in 2020. Unless we have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, then the election will stand. We have no evidence that is reasonable.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,333 posts)We know what is at stake. Is it now too much trouble to defend democracy? Forget the media frenzy, just start examining the results. We don't need a photo op every five hours to examine results. We don't need press coverage and special committees and such. If there is nothing wrong, then there is nothing wrong. Correct?
Personally, I like the idea of doing a hand count in the seven swing states. If there were issues with the machines or StarLink, that is where it will be obvious. (Disclosure: this was not my idea.) If no issues appear, then there was nothing wrong with the election. Unlike the rethugs, we won't start screaming the second we decide to demand a recount, but will maturely await the outcome to see if there were issues. If there were not, then there were not. There seems to be more and more circumstantial evidence appearing that indicates something was amiss. Which is why there needs to be a bit more scrutiny.
(Also, that orange gibbon did not try to steal the election. He tried to overthrow the existing government. The election had been over for months. Just my opinion.)
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Callie1979
(830 posts)In GA it wouldnt be.
Progressive dog
(7,499 posts)there were a lot more errors in counting. Machines are more accurate .and much faster Those are facts The machines are audited by hand counting ballots and feeding those ballots through the machines to verify the accuracy.of the machines.
This vote stealing nonsense with absolutely no verifiable evidence wasted time and feeds the conspiracy claims of the MAGA.
Progressive dog
(7,499 posts)Defending democracy means defending free and fair elections, It does not mean searching for ways to overturn an election based on conjecture. It does not mean attacking (without even possible cause) the election workers who were already under threat from MAGA.
If you were one of those workers, take your evidence to the authorities. It is really that simple.
TomSlick
(12,577 posts)Many are convinced President Biden was wrong and Vice President Harris was wrong. How do they know? They just know. Occam's Razor? They don't buy it.
People are having a hard time moving past denial to deal with grief.
It's time to move past the election and focus on resisting the coming terrors.
bikes and bunnies
(99 posts)It's like requiring a DA or the police to provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt before even starting an investigation!
That's not how this works. There's enough evidence to warrant an investigation, i.e. a recount, from what I've seen.
KPN
(16,747 posts)the checkers?
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Zeitghost
(4,557 posts)Are following post election procedures that include verifying the accuracy of the results. So far nothing has been produced to warrant a further investigation.
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)What is the specific reasonable suspicion?
This should not be flipped to having a reason to be suspicious but an specific and articulable suspicion.
Progressive dog
(7,499 posts)Is convince the Harris Walks team that they are close enough that a recount might work. Maybe you could get them to file sixty or so lawsuits revealing those facts that calls the election winner into doubt. Do you think Harris and Walz are part of the conspiracy or do you just think they are not very bright?
Progressive dog
(7,499 posts)and then get the Harris campaign to ask for one. The police have to have probable cause not wild speculation.
usaf-vet
(7,603 posts)..... it here first.
The history books and historians will write and believe that this downward election spiral started with the theft of the 2000 election and the hangings, "Chads," which gave them the necessary excuse for the need to computerize our national election.
Those of us who worked every day with computer systems knew the real unspoken reason: It was the only way they could get to every vote in any national election where it was and, if necessary, alter the results to fit their agenda.
It was the only way they could get to every vote in any national election where it was and, if necessary, alter the results to fit their agenda.
With Covid, look how easy it was to send workers home to do their work at homeconnecting to the office networks and other office team members.
The internet has made it possible to access any data and alter it remotely.
IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TOOLS, EXPERTISE, AND EVIL INTENTIONS if necessary.
Progressive dog
(7,499 posts)that no one who doesn't agree with you has the right tool;s, expertise, and evil intentions to steal elections. That is your right and because we do not yet have the kind of elections you speak of, we still allow random citizens to run the vote collection. Yes they now count votes using computerized machines and they audit those machines.
There are observers present when the votes are counted, and election workers were accused by Giuliani of cheating and he even had video to prove it. You are pointing from the other side at people like them, without even a pathetic proof in a video.
I'm sorry, but I believe that is going too far.
usaf-vet
(7,603 posts).... and is what will HISTORY say about the elections starting in 2000.
Maybe you don't care if the elections are fair. For the most part, I won't have many more Presidential elections to vote in.
And if I'm wrong, so be it if I'm right, good luck with your future.
Speaking of HISTORY and what it uncovers in the years following an event.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219751947
usaf-vet
(7,603 posts)The Gulf of Tonkin events, to name at least one.
HISTORY: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2008/february/truth-about-tonkin
Progressive dog
(7,499 posts)If you are right, our votes have never counted.
usaf-vet
(7,603 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(3,064 posts)did not win all the swing states and the house and the senate(I was giving him the senate ) It's just too convenient
Come on....
lees1975
(6,679 posts)And that was the state where the codes on the counting machines hadn't changed in 14 years.
But I sure don't want to be guilty of spreading conspiracy theories...
Abnredleg
(1,121 posts)If there are issues with the tabulators then the audit will flag them. Thats the nice thing about paper ballots - its easy to verify accuracy.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/11/pennsylvania-election-audit-certification-recount-explainer/
DetroitLegalBeagle
(2,406 posts)That would look suspicious. The problem is, it wasn't isolated. Deep blue states swung right, by double digits in some states. Nearly every county in the country shifted right. They would have had to have cheated literally everywhere. And the possibility of that happening everywhere is basically zero.
Kaleva
(39,638 posts)You don't need my permission.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Ohioboy
(3,712 posts)just a few locations that had an unusual amount of bullet ballots. Why not check it out?
Abnredleg
(1,121 posts)Upon close scrutiny.
AZ8theist
(6,780 posts)Abnredleg
(1,121 posts)I went to the sites of the various BOEs and did some simple math. Turns out his numbers were achieved by taking the number of Trump votes and comparing it the number of votes in the GOP Senate race, which was less. This, however, ignores the issue of split ballot voting. When you do the calculations properly, which is to compare the votes of all presidential candidates and subtracting the number of all votes in the Senate race, you discover that the number of ballots just for the presidential race are 1-2% of total ballots rather than 6-7%. His cherry picking on data was picked up quickly and it was mentioned numerous times on DU.
Heres a link to some numbers:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19738572
iemanja
(56,244 posts)
Did you miss the fact we lost BLUE states? Your argument lacks logic.
The harm is it makes the Democratic party look like colossal idiots and costs hundreds of millions of dollars.
brush
(60,543 posts)Talk about an argument lacking logic.
The first graph is hard to believe. Why in the hell would Democratic fix the election for trump? Ridiculous.
iemanja
(56,244 posts)The argument that the election was fixed depends on a conspiracy in which Democrats fixed the election for Trump. That is why it lacks logic.
brush
(60,543 posts)I thought it was clear, but evidently not.
brush
(60,543 posts)thebigidea
(13,510 posts)Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)...that the election was fixed DOES NOT depend on a conspiracy in which Democrats fixed the election for Trump.
iemanja
(56,244 posts)and Democratic election officials.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)....and, so far, we have not done any recounts to provide that information for anyone who is.
iemanja
(56,244 posts)like Sidney Powell.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)We've proven in 2020 that the U.S. is willng to do that.
iemanja
(56,244 posts)have the authority to call for an investigation and knowing that there is no way it will change the outcome of the election, they are not doing so. They have no obligation to bend to every person on the internet who can't deal with the election loss. It's over. Deal with it.
There is also the fact that the exit polls and results are consistent. There is nothing suggesting any malfeasance except denialists who can't face reality.
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)Better get to it quickly.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)jimfields33
(19,382 posts)bikes and bunnies
(99 posts)They're saying the tabulators may have been hacked at the county level.
That would not require the involvement of governors.
Man, I hate straw man arguments.
So dishonest.
I just called Walz's office urging him to tell Kamala to request a recount.
(I don't have Kamala's number).
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Now that we have an allegation what supports it?
iemanja
(56,244 posts)requires that the Blue States were in on it. That means Democratic election officials. Voting machines are not connected to the internet. How could they be hacked?
It's not a strawman argument. It's pointing to the utter illogic of claiming the election was stolen in every single swing state in America, including blue states. It requires a conspiracy that reaches to 90% of the counties in America, because that is how many that Trump gained ground in. The argument makes no sense, and the fact that two weeks after the election people are still in denial is just sad.
Walz and Harris are never going to ask for a recount because they know there is no basis to it. The whole country would laugh at them if they did, and there are no signs they want to. The only people who want to are those who can't face reality.
lees1975
(6,679 posts)They only certify the vote. They didn't count them. So an audit wouldn't be a problem.
Abnredleg
(1,121 posts)pnwmom
(109,955 posts)that elections systems had been breached AFTER the 2020 election, putting 2024 elections at risk.
The letter sent by nearly two dozen computer scientists, election security experts and voter advocacy organizations asks for a federal probe and a risk assessment of voting machines used throughout the country, saying the software breaches have urgent implications for the 2024 election and beyond. The breaches affected voting equipment made by two companies that together count over 70 percent of the votes cast across the country, according to the letter.
The multistate effort to unlawfully obtain copies of voting system software poses serious threats to election security and national security and constitutes a potential criminal conspiracy of enormous consequences, the group wrote in a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. We must protect our most sacred tenet of democracy the security of our vote."
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)jimfields33
(19,382 posts)Pennsylvania recount is a million dollars. But the state will cover that. The other 49 states will not cover costs but if someone paid, they might agree to recount.
cilla4progress
(26,367 posts)agree
Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)How are people so easily led into this? As absolutely-fucking-predicted, the pivot has been made and anger about the election will be wheeled on Harris and other Democratic leaders. Already his words and anti-Democratic rhetoric is being splattered all over DU.
How. Is. It. So. Easy?
When people complain about voters, "Oh, they're taken in by so much misinformation and disinformation cuz they're so dumb!" I want people to look real close at how grifters who make claims - without providing any evidence whatsoever - can get people to fall into these holes this easily.
And then maybe take a moment to think that it isn't always "other people" who fall for nonsense when it's nonsense they want to believe.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)Read through it. Do you think saying things like Harris will have the "rot of shame" on her if she doesn't buy into this stuff is acceptable rhetoric? They people will abandon and lose trust in Harris if she doesn't go along with Spoonamore?
He said this, addressing Harris:
This is what's on DU now. And it was so easy for this grifter to manage. Took him ten seconds to spread this poison. And now we get to read it, because people keep bringing it here en masse (and with all these new faces to help)
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)...yes, even for rightwingers.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)...and it is what you want to discuss, would you mind posting the text of his post?
I can not access the post on his substack for some reason.
Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)Much less VP Harris.
But plenty of others in the thread seem to have access to the post (and enjoy it if the recs are anything to go by). You can always ask the willing.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)Thank you anyway.
I'll disregard your references to his statements.
Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)But not even making the attempt to find easily accessed information available within this thread from many different posters betrays an unwillingness at good faith efforts.
So what's the game then, if not good faith?
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)I can not access the original source.
I wouldn't want to hold you to references on statements that you are not willing to provide originally sourced material on, so I will just disregard your refernces.
Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)So now you don't have to disregard the attacks on Harris or pretend they weren't seen.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)....since I can't verify the source (and I'm not sure of copyright implications), but a few things did stand out to me:
"Confirmation 6 of the 7 swing states used tabulators with firmware access codes built in - and unchanged since last election or longer. In one case 14 years."
"Multiple people sending me chapters of Kamalas 2019 book, in which she details how vulnerable voting machines are, and even worries Russia will change an outcome.
...
It was dead on correct Kamala. You nailed it. The whole chapter lines up with reports and videos the whole security community has been involved in. Imagine my face while reading your discussion of a hacking demo, that I helped develop. Its great stuff. 100% correct in everything discussed,..."
And I certainly agree with Spoonamore's understanding of how dangerous this might be for anyone to challenge this particular election.
I certainly hope the people he mentioned in Pennsylvania, etc, do indeed find the strengh to stand up at this extemely important time in our nation's, possibly ending, history.
yourout
(8,490 posts)a bit of verification.
As the saying goes... "Trust but verify" .
DiamondShark
(1,156 posts)I've seen it all this week.
yourout
(8,490 posts)DiamondShark
(1,156 posts)polly pureblood
(37 posts)and so you own it. You can't yell "election-denier" to the other side and then complain when the rules don't favor your position all of a sudden. This is why free speech is never one-sided...or shouldn't be. 🥳
paparush
(7,992 posts)actionable evidence? If so, they should.
We could contrast that to the 60 lawsuits the Orange Prolapse filed after 2020 that were all thrown out of court.
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Which I'm sure would be exercised if there was actionable evidence which there isn't.
Blue Full Moon
(2,412 posts)Things they blame the democrats do but, it's always false and exaggerated. Then they do what they were hollering about because in their heads it makes it alright. So the big lie was so ludicrous it now causes a chilling effect to talk about cheating. They didn't spend all that time and money for nothing. The lies aren't to make people believe them as truth, but to obscure the truth so it won't be believed.
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Blue Full Moon
(2,412 posts)Netanyahu said he wasn't going to work with Biden he was waiting on Trump. Trump and Johnson both said they had a secret. Trump tells his beautiful Christians they will never need to vote again. Bomb threats called in to voting precincts keeping citizens from voting. Bullet ballots and Muskrat's star link. There has already been cases like in Ohio where Triad went in and changed votes. Bush jr put a gag order on the result of the lawsuit. Again the republicans always holler about something then they do it. So it makes it oh well they were crazy so now that they have done it discussion is suppressed and that is very much a chilling effect. It would take the experts going through the data. For them to speak out obviously they already found inconsistencies.
Think. Again.
(22,355 posts)(I don't have a substack acct or the app)
Can anyone post the text please?
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,041 posts)The results are consistent with the exit polls. I can provide a citation if anyone wants.
lees1975
(6,679 posts)The results in all three of those states are quite close. It would take expert analysis to tell. I'm not seeing that it is conclusive enough to be 100% confident that there aren't discrepancies.
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,041 posts)Exit polls are rough checks on the actual results and in the current instance the latter mirror the former. Maybe chicanery occurred but proof of it is isn't to be found in exit polls.
calimary
(87,016 posts)They have no shame, and even less integrity.
Hope22
(4,052 posts)If I knew what they were afraid of I would probably be afraid too. Im sorry that we havent seen anything of VP Harris since November 6th. Im assuming she will be able to speak after this deadline has passed. I dont see a Dem being elected as President anytime soon. People fought for her, paid money every month, worked in local Dem offices and worked at polls despite the danger to make this happen. The very least we could have is an explanation of how the vote was protected and safely counted. Many of us watched as the President pulled out of the campaign even though he had stated to us multiple times that he was all in. Its just not a good feeling that it happened on our watch.
Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)I guess my hope is that people are just not reading things.
enid602
(9,490 posts)I dont believe that we know if Kamala has had time to thoroughly digest these theories. The letter was dated yesterday. Maybe she wants to see if the allegations have legs before she requests the recounts. I think shell weigh it carefully before making a decision.
lees1975
(6,679 posts)"anti-Harris" attack is a perspective term, not a proven fact. I don't see it that way. He's pointing out the urgency of getting something done he thinks there's evidence to do.
Harris is still asking for money. So it could very well be that she is planning to ask for recounts in some or all of the battleground states. Why not? What does that hurt? There was too much blabbering from Trump and the GOP to let this go without checking on it.
Personally, I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but as a registered Democrat who spend a lot of time canvassing for votes in Southeast Wisconsin and who gave over a thousand dollars to her campaign, I can certainly feel justified in asking that she do this.
HereForTheParty
(915 posts)I'm glad she's ignoring this grifter. We'd look like fools and it would undercut our criticism of the Stop the Steal crap.
John Shaft
(808 posts)Kid Berwyn
(21,209 posts)Dont want to hurt Der Führers feelings.
Self Esteem
(2,248 posts)After all, every argument I've seen used here as proof of the 2024 theft was used by Republicans four years ago.
Ann B
(24 posts)Actually, it started in 2000 when Sandra Day O'Connor gave Bush the presidency after the Brooks Brothers Riot.
The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration led by Republican staffers at a meeting of election canvassers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on November 22, 2000, during a recount of votes made during the 2000 United States presidential election, with the goal of shutting down the recount. After demonstrations and acts of violence, local officials shut down the recount early.
Rev. Jess Jackson led a protest as well at the time.
Jesse Jackson raised a shorts-'n'-shirts insurrection yesterday in a town that is the relatively poor neighbour of the traditional winter home of America's super rich, the Kennedys, the Rockefellers, the Pulitzers and, more recently, the upstart Trumps.
Perhaps it was not quite the Rainbow Coalition that the black leader had in mind when he named his civil rights organisation. But still, more than 1,000 people protesting at the voting irregularities that may have robbed Al Gore of the presidency defied the police and spilled on to the street, streaming towards the West Palm Beach department of elections. There were blacks, whites and Hispanics; the young and wheelchair-bound; union leaders and self-made business people; the passionate and the passive.
mdbl
(6,900 posts)then I can quit these feelings of disgust for the American voters who voted for Dump. It was bad enough when they were just a weird fringe group before all the big money got behind them.
nmmi
(248 posts)and then they became sore losers after 2020, and took sore losing to a new extreme level, but I never heard our Democratic officials or office holders or left wing radio/tv show hosts, or much of anybody call them sore losers sore losers sore losers. I never understood why.
HelpImSurrounded
(531 posts)Show me some evidence of theft. I have seen none. I have seen a lot of conjecture and conspiracy theory and nothing more than that.
Show me evidence.
MichMan
(15,432 posts)Spoonamore referenced the existence of
Where are the pictures of them doing what he claims?