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Re:CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in Am... by dashundchen on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:59PM (#25079048)
I don't think it's true. Democrats still don't like the electoral college even when they win. The real margin in this election would be over 5 million instead of the hundred of thousands if the EC didn't exist.

And in this case the Republican claims of misnformation and conspiracy have seemed so outlandish and baseless it's hard to take any of them seriously.

Like videos of ballots being burned, that turned out to be sample ballots printed from the internet.

Or the false rumor that ballots marked with sharpie were being disqualified in Arizona when their own election officials repeatedly cleared that claim.

Or the baseless claim that Republican observers were not present for the counting of ballots in Michigan or Pennsylvania - they were.

Or the willful misunderstanding of how ballots were being tallied and reported.

Or that mail in ballots fraudulently skewed Democratic after Trump spent months telling his supporters not to trust mail voting, then complaining when those mailin ballots were legally counted after November 3rd.

Re:CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in Am... by jkhdigital on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:51AM (#25079336)
The problem is that the well is completely poisoned. There are some interesting claims, and some ridiculous ones, and nobody has time to develop an informed opinion on all of them so you just find a few examples which support your priors.
Re:CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in Am... by dashundchen on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:58AM (#25082157)
If there were any real accusations I'd like to hear them. No reason for prominent GOP politicians to be shoveling these bullshit lies then.

NYT talked to every states election officials and not a single one could report large scale voting fraud, certainly not enough to affect this year's presidential election.

Re:CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in Am... by bitwize on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:29PM (#25086370)
So let's say I went onto Twitter in the runup before the election and said something like "Reminder: Donald Trump hired Russian prostitutes to pee on him."

Would/Should Twitter put a little "this claim is disputed" banner on this tweet? If not, why not?