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Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by knowaveragejoe on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @07:04PM (#41124469)
We're still clinging to this in 2024? Wow.
Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by aniviacat on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @08:11PM (#41124906)
If you consider the US election to clearly not have been rigged, then you should question the legitimacy of the signs listed in the top level comment.

If the signs don't convince you that the US election was rigged, they shouldn't convince you of other elections being rigged, either.

(I'm not from the US and don't care much about the US election. But I do think that the comment which sadly was flagged made a valid point about the signs not being useful indicators if they also apply to elections which are not rigged.)

Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by adamtaylor_13 on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @07:35PM (#41124682)
Suppose there was legitimacy to this, which many believe, why wouldn’t we still talk about this in 2024? Are we not allowed to discuss history?
Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @07:57PM (#41124816)
By 2024, most people should have figured out that there wasn't legitimacy to this.
Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by adamtaylor_13 on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:13AM (#41128774)
Why? What happened in 4 years that revealed to everyone beyond a doubt that it wasn’t legitimate?

Where I live, no one questions that the election was rigged. Most believe it was. I haven’t done enough of my own research to know one way or the other.

Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:53AM (#41129067)
Losing 60 out of 60 court cases that claimed election fraud should have been a data point. (Or 60 data points.)
Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by bloppe on Thursday August 01, 2024 @04:49PM (#41133466)
The key is that every single challenge has been debunked, often in court and often by Republican judges. When every challenge has been debunked, it's time to accept that the vote was fair.

The problem is that it's too easy to hallucinate new challenges. It's easy to claim some guy stuffed ballot boxes with no evidence, and if people want to believe that, they will unless given irrefutable proof to the contrary. But how do you prove irrefutably that Fidel Castro definitely did not stuff all the ballot boxes? Apparently, you can't.

Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by bloppe on Thursday August 01, 2024 @04:54PM (#41133517)
It's a bit like discussing whether God exists. Ya lots of people believe it and you can certainly talk about it. But this isn't really a forum for that kind of conversation.
Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election by HPsquared on Thursday August 01, 2024 @05:59AM (#41127566)
People still complain about Brexit constantly in British newspaper comment sections.