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” A handful of cases of fraud … have been found.”
“The fact remains… they have not found a single case of definite fraud.”
oh…ok
Torahval, what you are saying makes no sense. Every election has some fraud, so the only way we can rely on a electiio is if posit that fraud did not affect the election.
torahval, if fraud is commited, we should audit anywhere else.
Ein ledavar saf. You audit the place of fraud if fraud is rampant.@torahvaluesoverparty Both of my original arguments still stand. It’s pretty obvious that this is not fraud but a common and expected error. You don’t need to understand the process to understand that a mass mailing that gets 2% of the addresses wrong isn’t indicative of anything.
@torahvaluesoverparty Yes the votes should still count. So do you agree with me that the audit did not find any fraud now?
My two arguments are what you referred to in your previous comment.
- The Cyber Ninjas claims show nothing because the voter gap doesn’t change
- The findings are pretty meaningless as they show a possible human error, not fraud
What you are saying, in essence, is that there should be an insanely high, near impossible to reach, standard for elections. That after every election there should be a months long audit of everything and if any computer is on the fritz, ballot sent to a guy who moved last week, ballot sent without a middle name, etc. then they should be disqualified. With the end result of pretty much nothing since the errors would be evenly distributed across party lines and not changing the results.
@torahvaluesoverparty What part of the process is confusing to you?
Don’t you see how your claims have changed? You’ve gone from “Fraud was proven to be committed to the extent that Trump had 20,000 more votes than Biden in AZ” to “Fraud was possibly committed so we have to do more investigation” to “I’m just going to assume fraud was committed until proven otherwise” to now where your story is “I don’t understand the process so I’ll wait for the experts. No, not those experts. No, not those either. No, those are the wrong politicians”
@torahvaluesoverparty My point is that can’t you at least admit that your assumptions and initial readings of the situation were wrong and perhaps clouded by at-least-a-little bias?
@torahvaluesoverparty Brnovich already responded with a non-response. He’s doing the same thing that the Cyber Ninjas did for months, claiming that the mountain of data and information that they have (which shows exactly zero evidence of fraud) isn’t enough because it’s missing a molehill or two. Since AG Brnovich is the one who fought to get this audit done in the first place, he’s an extremely biased party and not exactly the first source I would turn to.
@torahvaluesoverparty Not to get personal, but you mentioned seeing “statistical anomalies” yet in previous comments you made blatant errors in basic statistics, such as confusing the population data with the sample data (AZ and Maricopa), and putting significance on a difference that’s way within confidence levels (less than 5% difference in one batch bad ballots). So excuse me for being blunt, but what exactly are these “statistical anomalies” and how do you know you aren’t just making another mathematical error.
@torahvaluesoverparty “There are lies, filthy lies, and statistics”. That’s the problem, it’s all what you call “number-crunching”. Like what makes a Bellwether county, how significant is winning it, and can we infer anything at all or is it just a media hype? Do you know any accountants, preferably those involved in auditing? Maybe a statistician or data scientist? They can definitely explain your questions and concerns a lot better than I can. B’kitzur, you can’t just base major ideas on a few memes that show something claiming to be significant when the reality is way more complicated. Otherwise we’d all be calling Israel a genocidal colonial racist regime.
You say that the bar for an audit should not be set high, but this is in a thread where you defend throwing out any ballot that was sent to an address where the individual recently moved out of. That’s not just high, that’s astronomical.
@torahvaluesoverparty I know what a Bellwether county is, that’s not my point. The question is whether 18 out of 19 wrong means anything. Any half-baked statistician or accountant can tell you that you’re always going to find statistical anomalies in large amounts of real world data. But you have to have an understand of what that data is to know which things are important and which aren’t. Over here, you can glance over at the article on FiveThirtyEight titled “Where did all the Bellwether Counties Go?” which explains in greater detail. For instance, for the last 36 years, every time a Bellwether County voted against the winner, they were dropped from the list. So it’s kind of meaningless data since it’s been changed so many times to fit a result, it’s kind of like saying “Every time Rockland County voted Republican, the Republican won except when they voted Democrat”.
And speaking of FiveThirtyEight, they’ve been writing comprehensive statistical analysis and predictions of political elections for years. For presidential elections they predict by county with a small margin of error. And every election since 2008, including 2020, has been well within that margin (even 2016 when CNN was saying that Clinton has a 99% chance, FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a 1 in 3 chance based on him winning specific counties, which he did). So if you want to leave things to the experts, they certainly come to mind.
There are two very simple questions that you’re not only ignoring, but also making extremely complicated for no reason: Was fraud committed because ballots were sent to the wrong address? Yes or no? Next question: Should every state delay counting for months and spend millions on security audits to squeeze out every possible issue with their ballots? Yes or no?
I found it surprising that so many states had Trump coming in ahead but in the last moment changing to a Biden win. I’ve heard many experts saying that is statistically impossible.
Phil -“I found it surprising that so many states had Trump coming in ahead but in the last moment changing to a Biden win. I’ve heard many experts saying that is statistically impossible.”
Actually in Lindell’s documentary this is one of the first things he talks about.
Trump won the election & it wasn’t even close.But the taxpayers are doomed if you’re in the Middle Class (look at the Budget), but keep dreaming that we Cons lost both the Congress & the presidency.
@torahvaluesoverparty The Arizona AG, who is the only person you are relying on to interpret this audit, pretty much came out and said that the results don’t show fraud.
To be honest, in this context I don’t like “I don’t know” as an answer. This whole thread has been about eagerly awaiting the audit results and what they show. As soon as they were releases, you and others were quick to jump on it and say that you believe the audit will confirm “tens of thousands” of votes were potentially fraudulent. Now, since we’ve unambiguously shown that it proves nothing of the kind, suddenly you back off with “Well, I don’t know…” as if the data that you’ve been consuming all this time is too complex to chap. (I mean, just last week you were explaining how the medias reporting that the audit showed Biden won was wrong) No, I don’t accept that.
It may take a statistician to look at data and figure out if there’s something fishy their, but you don’t need to have a Gadol sized IQ to realize that a bunch of wrong addresses on a mass mailing are not indicative of anything.
@philosopher Actually none of the situations where the vote flipped for Biden was unexpected, but it was one of the things that Guiliani and Trump’s team tried to use to prove fraud. In every case where Trump was winning a state, then the numbers flipped, it was because that’s when they started counting the votes from a major urban county that’s been Blue for decades. In one example, it was close but Trump was ahead, but flipped when they counted mail-in ballots which country-wide were much more Democrat than Republican (probably because the Republicans were specifically telling their constitutes to vote in person).
TVOP -“Health-If Lindell’s claims of vote switching was true, wouldn’t it have shown up in the Maricopa audit?”
Let me ask you something – did the audit see the paper ballots that were mailed in or just a copy?
Anyways, most Republicans go in person.
So it’s just a copy how they voted.
So if the computer election machines were corrupted – then it’s just a copy of that Fake Vote!@torahvaluesoverparty The AZ AG has said that he needs more data to determine if fraud happened. In other words, there’s no evidence in this report that there was fraud, even for someone deeply invested and biased such as Mike Brnovich.
After the report came out, the only response by pro-audit Republicans has been vague “it raises questions”. No one actually stated what those questions are and what would constitute an acceptable answer. So yeah, it looks like we are back to square one. Meaning that there’s no evidence of fraud so we have to conclude that the Maricopa election was fair. And all these mysterious “questions” are just more smoke screens with intent to sow mistrust.
how does a ballot sent to the wrong address get to the hands of the correct voter?
It wasn’t that they were sent to the wrong address, it’s that they were sent to an address that someone had moved from recently. Presumably, the new residents (or, in the case of people moving out of their parents house, their families) would just give them their mail.
Can you explain how your propose this fraud would have worked? Like, hypothetically, if this was a case of fraud, what were the Democrats trying to gain by sending a random batch of ballots to the wrong people, (considering that the ballots were proportionately divided up into Democrats, Republicans, and others)?
Cyber Ninjas, the firm hired to conduct an election review in Arizona, was ordered to pay $50,000 a day in sanctions until it turns over records from the review sought by the Arizona Republic newspaper.
A superior court judge in Maricopa County found the Florida-based company in contempt of court Thursday and ordered the sanctions, according to the Republic.This is the company that was supposed to show the world how the election was stolen from Trump.
And now this company is completely bankrupt and no longer exists.
Jack Wilenchik, a lawyer representing Cyber Ninjas, said that the company has laid off all employees, including its former chief executive officer Doug Logan, and is now insolvent, according to Newsweek. Wilenchik said the company is unable to go into its records to find the audit documents.
It had one purpose. Sew possible doubt in the trustworthiness of the election system.
They lost !!!
The Republican-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors put out a 93 page report that disproved 76 out of 77 claims by the former company that was known as Cyber Ninjas. The one claim that was valid was that 50 votes were counted twice. Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes, a margin so large that state law prohibited a recount. And Cyber Ninjas itself concluded that Biden actually won by more than that. Yet Cyber Ninjas raised huge amounts of money from gullible Trump supporters, most of which is now going to have to be paid out in contempt of court fines.
Just to give you an example of how bad Cyber Ninjas was, they used “fuzzy matching” methodology to try to match voters to databases of names and addresses in order to determine whether or not a voter had moved. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that that will result in huge numbers of errors — and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors confirmed that. But you do have to have a higher IQ than the people who still claim that Trump won the election.
And that is giving them the benefit of the doubt. It is possible that many of them secretly really do know that Trump lost, but that they want a dictatorship rather than democracy in America. Some of them showed up in Washington on January 6 for the attempted coup.
Charile, So, this served a great purpose, hopefully convincing some people that this particular election event had integrity. I think it will be healthy if there will be multiple probes that will make people more confident. Probably not all, but at least some.
As to methodology, I don’t know details, but it makes sense from your description. you apply approximate automated matching process that identifies cases of potential errors. Then, they presumably report it to lawmakers who have an ability to go verify those errors. As you are saying here, this establishes an upper bound on the error.
Still, if you think that this will reduce enthusiasm of Trump supporters, I think you are wrong. Overall feeling of “injustice” is based on the history of multiple unfounded attacks on Trump over his whole term, and on “legitimate” changes to the voting process that made it easier for “low affinity” voters to drop their ballot in the mail. Some people are channeling their frustration into out-there theories but these theories re not the root cause of the voter frustration.
AAQ,
“Overall feeling of “injustice” is based on the history of multiple unfounded attacks on Trump over his whole term” .I would word it, “Overall feeling of “injustice” is based on the history of a multitude of unfounded attacks by Trump beginning before his term in 2016, when he would not unequivocally agree to the results , until today when he repeatedly asserts that he didn’t lose in 2020.”
He is fueling the fire.
He has a team of rich liars starting with Mike Lindell down to lowly poor Giuliani who work for him to throw doubt on the elections. He also has many congressmen and senators in his pocket.
Without trump , the reasonable parts of the Republican party would have a voice in declaring that the elections in all 50 states were legitimate.
Re: “and on “legitimate” changes to the voting process that made it easier for “low affinity” voters to drop their ballot in the mail.”
This is why Biden’s Voting Right’s bill is so important that it might even trump breaking the filibuster rule.
Republicans can only win by denying ALL Americans the ability to vote.jackk, Republicans ran Romney – an opposite of Trump in many ways: decent family man, self-made millionaire, great businessman, his father also a decent politician and businessman. He ran a high-road campaign. All opposite to Trump. He ran against a President who performed better that Biden but not by much. He was abused and laughed at by everyone from newspapers to just-deceased Senate leader. When he answered that Russia is our greatest enemy, he was shown to be a clown (that was 2 years before Russian annexed Crimea). So Republicans rightly concluded that running such candidates is honorable but hopeless. At the end, Trump implemented a lot of things that Romney would have done, many possibly in a better way. And pray for Manchin not to break filibuster, as you don’t want to see what will angry Republicans pass in 2024. I don’t want to see that either. Risk of further polarization is very high, we should stop going there.
AAQ,
Not sure what your comments about Romney vs Trump have to do with Republicans being a party that has declared that “elections are all stolen unless they win ” and “we need to prevent all americans from easily voting because then they will lose”.
I will agree that the republicans have shown that they will do anything in order to win. This includes a coup and preventing americans from voting.
It also includes the BIG LIE that the election was stolen from Trump.Romney was a great candidate and is a very decent person.
Romney received 60,933,500 votes, or 47.2% of the total votes cast, winning 24 states and 206 electoral votes.
That is a larger percentage than Trump had. Trump only had 46.8%.Regarding being abused and laughed it – you are smart enough to know that every politician gets abused and laughed it. That is a baloney reason to go and take the low road.
I am very proud of Biden in that although he is being ridiculed and abused, he has not taken the low road. He is suffering constant jokes about his mental state and his VP Kamala and not being to win every battle in congress etc …jackk > you are smart enough to know that every politician gets abused and laughed it.
Maybe you do not appreciate to what degree many Republicans feel alienated. Everything a R- does is wrong l’hathila. Everything a D- does is defensible. You’ve got to go Fox and further down some rabbit holes to hear something different. There are now a couple of articles describing how Biden is always late for meeting and have pre-meeting meetings where he gets bogged down by often irrelevant details, and as his (anonymous) advisors “warmy” say – he is like that for 60+ years, he is not going to change. None of even such trivial details were in the mainstream media before election.
Covid numbers were on front page during Trump, and now in small print. Biden’s statements that someone with 200K deaths does not deserve being a President not mentioned. A R- President with such track record would have his popularity in teens. At the end, this makes R- Presidents more successful. Criticism makes them stronger and it works even before action. When Trump decided to abruptly pull out of Afghanistan in Dec 2020, he was told that was wrong, and he reversed himself. if needed, info would be leaked to papers, etc. Bidens sleepwalks into bad decisions without any pushback. Imagine Trump not being prepared for predicted end of year virus surge and start promising tests in March for crisis in December. Works for Biden, sort of, but not for the country. One more reason to vote R if you care more than for satisfaction of winning elections.
“and not being to win every battle in congress etc“
With owning both house and senate to boot
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