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In reply to the discussion: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)in 2000 IIRC, all of a sudden started to diverge strikingly from the actual tallies from the machines. Up until then, exit polls were very on-the-money in predicting the outcomes. For decades, exit polls tracked with actual vote counts extremely well.
What happened? Some people say that voters all of a sudden started to lie to exit pollers in bigger numbers. HUH? For decades it ran along fine, then ppl started lying for some reason? That's harder to believe than any conspiracy theory.
The nail in the coffin was when the decision was made to ELIMINATE EXIT POLLING, BECAUSE IT WAS "INACCURATE"! I'm sure many statisticians said, "what the fuck?" to themselves, because the fact that exit polls were diverging from final exit results was a big red flag for them - and not because they thought exit polling suddenly became unreliable. It was because this is gold-plated evidence that the voting machines had been tampered with, and the elimination of exit polls made sure that no one could use those polls to check up on/demand anything of the assholes who now own the system completely.