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brooklynite

(94,520 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 10:31 AM Aug 2020

"The Committee has seen no evidence that...voting machines were manipulated"

"The Committee has seen no evidence that any votes were changed or that any voting machines were manipulated."-- Finding of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian Interference.


Before you claim this is a "whitewash", remember that Senators Mark Warner, Dianne Feinstein, Ron Wyden, Martin Heinrich, Angus King, Kamala Harris and Michael Bennet, Chuck Schumer and Jack Reed concur with the findings.
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brush

(53,776 posts)
2. The whole thing about repug-manufactured vote machines and their proprietary software...
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 10:38 AM
Aug 2020

accessible only to repug secretaries of state and repug vote officials is that vote tampering is undetectable. Of course there's no evidence.

How does one explain ten thousand ballots in Detroit in 2016, a majority black city full of Democrats, being cast with no vote for the top of the ticket, for the president?

brush

(53,776 posts)
4. We both know that's a ridiculous statement. But do you really thing that the software...
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 10:49 AM
Aug 2020

developed for those voting machines leave evidence of tampering? I mean what would be the point of doing it if can be traced. And what about the Detroit ballots?

brooklynite

(94,520 posts)
5. I think if that was an issue, the Democrats would have raised it in the report...
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 11:01 AM
Aug 2020

...or in a minority response. As I've stated before, NO Democratic candidate, campaign professional or Party leader claims that votes were flipped. And if you believe they were, you need to explain why they apparently WEREN'T flipped to stop Democrats from winning in 2018.

brooklynite

(94,520 posts)
12. Yes, it actually was...
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 11:35 AM
Aug 2020

We don't vote in aggregate. We vote district by district.

Lucy McBath won GA-6 by 1%. Ditto Jared Golden in ME-2, Andy Kim in NJ-3. Ben McAdams won UT-4 by 0.2%

Republicans steal elections the old-fashioned way.


 

SiliconValley_Dem

(1,656 posts)
7. applying statistical methods, they can infer whether anomalies in votes
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 11:11 AM
Aug 2020

cannot be explained by random manipulation but is instead skewed to favor a candidate.

brush

(53,776 posts)
11. Don't you remember Jill Stein's effort and how it was dropped by repugs? She made money off of it.
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 11:17 AM
Aug 2020

Her effort was all a sham.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
6. What about tabulators, voter rolls, provisional ballot anomalies, machine access and up times and
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 11:07 AM
Aug 2020

... slew of other shit the kGOP can and does do to fuck with votes?

Come on, narrowing the inquisition to machine manipulation doesn't help.

It looks like they don't have to maniplulation individual machines to cheat in elections these days, looks like a red herring

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