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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by dghlsakjg on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:30PM (#25662784)
If you look for it, just about every state has had some anomalies that were noted by the officials. It's all boring.

All of it has been on a scale that wouldn't affect the outcome of elections. For example in Georgia 2 ballots were submitted in the names of dead people. In Colorado they are investigating non-matching signatures on a few hundred ballots.

This kind of stuff is routine, and happens in every election. Of course it isn't perfect, but its a decent enough system that has worked well in 100s of countries across centuries

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ehsankia on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:41PM (#25664407)
It's all just like numerology or p-hacking. When you look super close and try hundreds of different tricks, some of them eventually show signs of working, but that doesn't mean you found something relevant.

I've seen countless videos of people taking the analysis done by some charlatan on Youtube, then applying the exact same calculation to a bunch of other Republican counties and getting the exact same anomalies.

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