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BOMBSHELL CLAIM: TRUMP DID NOT WIN 2024, ELECTION MANIPULATED
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-- Nathan Taylor, Executive Director of Public Engagement for Election Truth Alliance, joins us to discuss discrepancies in the 2024 election and how to bolster election integrity

gab13by13
(29,873 posts)Too many anomalies malaise,
Why did Krasnov get election day surges in votes in only the swing states and not in any other states? Why didn't Kamala flip one red district to blue? Unheard of.
You are going to be hit with the machines aren't connected to the internet in 3..2..1..
barbtries
(30,796 posts)Democrats won all or most of the down races. yet krasnov won his. I don't believe it.
ms liberty
(10,626 posts)The only people I know who believe krasnov won are the ones who voted for him.
Mr.Bee
(1,255 posts)I believe this expectation of instant, overnight election results hurts our country,
and when statisticians discover anomalies it is too late and no one believes it.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)Why weren't any done?
I ask the question every day as I watch the destruction and mayhem.
58Sunliner
(6,113 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)figuratively and literally.
MichMan
(16,000 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)We are watching billions of dollars being stolen every day.
We are watching billions of dollars of infrastructure and bureaucratic history being dismantled every day.
We watched USAID be smashed into oblivion - a waste of billions in dollars and millions in lives.
In November of 2024, I offered to contribute to a recount effort - I am sure others were willing to contribute as well.
A tragedy and a travesty.
Kamala Harris deserved to have those millions at her back.
Kid Berwyn
(22,006 posts)Nobody admitted voting for the guy when asked in a high-end restaurant in Macomb County in February, including the server and the owner. Nobody. And that was a room with at least 30 people.
llmart
(16,879 posts)Though I live in Macomb I am mostly in Oakland County and I heard the same thing.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)EdmondDantes_
(947 posts)They assert but don't demonstrate the surge claims. But even if they did, shocking that it would be in the states most targeted. But we also know Republicans are more likely to vote on election day. The same way they did in 2020.
The evidence is ephemeral and dissipates on any scrutiny.
angryxyouth
(299 posts)If you go to the election truth alliance YouTube channel, there is an interview on the Titus podcast which dives deeper into the statistics with multiple Charts and graphs and there are charts and graphs for all of the data analysis you can think of and shown in different types of graphs. For example the under performance chart. I would suggest watching one of the other podcasts and I believe his assertions are pretty much undeniable.
EdmondDantes_
(947 posts)Let's take their "evidence" for North Carolina.
https://electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/north-carolina/
Their first point is down ticket races where Democrats performed relatively better than Harris. Apparently split ticket voting with the most polarizing candidate in history isn't a thing.
Then there's the claim that there are differences between early voting and election day voting. Sure they have graphs, but they don't explain how they came to their conclusions. Why did they pick a random country in Minnesota as their proof? And when hypothesis 1 that more Republican voters show up on election day compared to Democrats, well we know that's true. See all the red mirage talk in explaining why Trump was lying about the 2020 election. Discounting the truth to reach your conclusion isn't intellectually honest.
Their third point is that RFK Jr was ordered removed from the ballot, but they don't explain how that would impact the vote.
They finish with a call for an audit, but didn't review the audit results from North Carolina.
https://www.ncsbe.gov/about-elections/election-security/post-election-procedures-and-audits
How is any of that convincing evidence?
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)Would you take anything less than hand counted paper ballot recounts as proof of election fraud? I bet no, and that makes two of us.
Look at 2004. What was it, 16 states with official results outside of the exit poll margin of error, 15 of those favoring Bush, 14 of those flipping the state from Kerry to Bush? This didn't prove election fraud, but it sure suggested that hand counted paper ballot recounts would be a good idea.
EdmondDantes_
(947 posts)And there's plenty I accept as evidence that the election wasn't stolen. For example all the protections in place including audits. That the election matched polls. That the Democratic elected officials who would have to be complicit or idiots that aren't crying election fraud.
intrepidity
(8,475 posts)Before I embark on a deep dive, and since you have already seen more of the data, do they show eg these heat maps for other random precincts?
If the raw data is readily available, it is trivial to generate these maps.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)It only interferes with the grieving of the loss and facing the challenges in the current reality.
Maraya1969
(23,353 posts)Musk being involved in that election always seemed suspect to me.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)I'm not a teenager, but I do like this new slang.
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)Ask President Gore.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)It was 1) an election administration issue (hanging chads arent an evil conspiracy) and 2) a strategic error by Gore that gave SCOTUS the equal protection excuse they were looking for to hand the election to Bush.
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)1) Let's not split hairs, ok? It was cheating. The media recount showed Gore winning every statewide recount scenario.
2) Yes. If only Gore had insisted on a statewide hand counted recount.
Of course, this has no bearing on the 54,000 mostly poor/minority people who were purged from voter rolls in Florida in 2000, against a court order, by Katherine Harris, the SoS under Jeb Bush. That made a difference too.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)Election fraud - manipulating/flipping votes/vote tallies, is a very different act from voter suppression, or litigation after the fact to use the courts to obtain a specific outcome.
All are wrong and evil, but are distinct acts, not splitting hairs.
What is being alleged in these CTs is specific, deliberate alteration of votes/vote tallies.
And there is no evidence that happened.
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)oh, right, there were no recounts completed, hence no evidence. You got me there, if no recounts are done, there is only circumstantial evidence, which is too easily ignored. You present a fascinating premise.
BTW, have you read The Conyers Report? Republican cheating is multifaceted. I could be convinced it didn't include election fraud, but just saying there is no evidence isn't doing it for me.
MichMan
(16,000 posts)Some of it was from donations by DU members. None showed anything of any substance
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)The recounts paid for by Green Party donations in 2016 were not full hand counted paper ballot recounts, and we're not even completed in two of the three states, and like I said, no recounts give no evidence.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)And recounts have to be requested by a candidate, and in many cases paid for by them.
Not sure what youre alleging about 2016.
While chicanery and malfeasance abound in US elections in the form of voter suppression and disenfranchisement, there is zero verifiable evidence of actual fraud (altering votes or vote totals).
As Rudy said we dont have evidence, but we have theories.
And now hes been disbarred, along with Sidney Powell, John Eastman and many other lawyers who were stupid enough to jump in the stop the steal bandwagon.
Which is why no lawyer representing the Dems went before a judge to present their theories about 2024 fraud- because there wasnt any, and they didnt want to be disbarred.
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)2016 United States presidential election recounts - Wikipedia https://share.google/Q11qXUqiKbavHrdo4
The issues were given cursory coverage in the press of the time. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary.
As we seem to agree, no hand counted paper ballot recounts means no evidence of election fraud (except circumstantial evidence, which has been present in all Republican victories in our present century.)
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)No evidence of fraud was uncovered.
Hillary lost.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)Wether votes are being purposefully manipulated or the machines simply dont work the results appear to incorrect
And illegal voter suppression would certainly be election fraud
AllaN01Bear
(27,487 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)Polybius
(20,912 posts)Not just Swing States.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)When 90 million voters stay home.
hlthe2b
(111,490 posts)I don't tend to buy into conspiracy theory, but on this, I can have no certainty, that's for sure.
SocialDemocrat61
(5,756 posts)None of the YouTube warriors are.
EdmondDantes_
(947 posts)It ignores split ticket voting, it compares unlike districts, and so on.
bucolic_frolic
(52,495 posts)barbtries
(30,796 posts)magats and krasnov just pull numbers out of their collective ass. 300 million dead from overdoses. highest ratings in the history of creation. Inflation going down, jobs are up, tariffs are the best thing this FUCK ever did.
i'm still outraged that stephen miller, in the Oval Office, told a bald faced lie that an 0-9 decision that was in fact, a loss for the abomination administration was a 9-0 win. He said this directly to the president in the presence of the "press" (apparently they only allow "press" that is not concerned with reporting facts), on camera, on the record. Bald faced lie with no push back whatsoever, making sure that krasnov's cult and possibly even krasnov himself believe the lie.
They're like miles and years ahead of manipulation. The full time job of everyone in this abomination administration is Propaganda. Full stop.
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)He constantly says nonsense numbers, but the actual official data released by the government does not reflect those nonsense numbers. So far, there is no evidence any "official" data has been manipulated. There has been data that they have declined to release presumably because the numbers would reflect very poorly on Trump.
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)And I'm not aware of them even releasing any autism statistics. Trump made his Tylenol announcement without any science or data to back it up. He didn't quote any numbers, just said it was bad. No data manipulation needed.
bucolic_frolic
(52,495 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)I have written more than a hundred posts on here over the past couple months explaining my background (professional government statistician who worked on the BLS employment programs at the state level) and why it is 100% clear that BLS data is NOT being manipulated to this point in time. I'm not going to repeat everything because it's clear you're someone who will never listen . Suffice to say, the statisticians at BLS who produce that data are career civil servants (I personally know many of them) and to a person, not a single one will ever manipulate data for political purposes. They will resign first.
It should be obvious to even the most skeptical person that if they were manipulating the data, then we wouldn't have had a month where the US lost jobs and the recent gains would be far above the approximately 20,000 that they have been. Why would you believe they are manipulating the jobs data when they have been absolute garbage?
I guarantee if/when they try to release manipulated data, it will be obvious and numerous whistleblowers will go to the media about it.
How DARE you tell me to open my eyes. You're the one that needs to open your eyes. I know what I am talking about. You don't.
Go ahead and believe what you want. I know the truth. THEY ARE NOT MANIPULATING THE DATA!
barbtries
(30,796 posts)I think Kamala won. Al Gore won. John Kerry won.
republicans believe that the ends justify the means. winning is everything, and it's all a zero sum game.
gab13by13
(29,873 posts)We even had the computer programmer admit he wrote the program to send votes from Ohio to a wareshed in Tennessee where the votes were flipped from Kerry to Shrub. The programmer was flying to DC to testify when his small plane crashed and yet people like us are called conspiracy nuts.
No wonder Republicans cheat, not enough people believe they cheat even when it's obvious.
W's freaking brother stopped the recount in Florida that would have given the election to Gore in order to allow the SC to pick the president.
I repeat, there were vote surges on election day for Krasnov, only in the swing states and in no other states. The surges were out of place to word it plainly for people to understand.
barbtries
(30,796 posts)and the plane crash. not the first plane crash.
yeah, we shouldn't be conspiracy theorists. however Hillary was right about just about everything and definitely the vast right wing conspiracy. they've played the long game and as of this minute, it looks like they won.
fortunately time keeps on passing. I don't know if it will be in my lifetime, but I know they will fall eventually and democracy will be restored.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)...and the plane crash.
Clouds Passing
(5,904 posts)barbtries
(30,796 posts)but you reminded me of how reagan arranged to keep the hostages in Iran until after the election.
Clouds Passing
(5,904 posts)to stop negotiating with Johnson to stop the war. Nixon would have a much better deal for them if they waited until after he was elected. The Gop have been treasoners for a long time.
Clouds Passing
(5,904 posts)until after he was elected. They would give them a much better deal than the one that Johnson had already negotiated with the Vietnamese.
The gop has been treasoners for a long time
Bluepinky
(2,483 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,255 posts)Dems shoulda fought harder.
it's like this shutdown shit. if there is a shutdown the republicans own it yet the old dyed in the wool decades in congress Democrats seem to think it would be preferable to capitulate for fear of having it be blamed on them.
Fear informs way too much of the thinking of these Democrats imo. Figure out what you stand for and fight for it and, especially now, never capitulate to republicans, never assume or even pretend that they act in good faith (they never do), and take it all the way. At least then if you lose, you know you did your damnedest.
ETA with this last election, the damage being done is so cataclysmic and catastrophic it defies imagination.
Mr.Bee
(1,255 posts)As Thom Hartmann said, "There has not been a Republican legitimately elected president since Dwight Eisenhower."
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)So painful to watch.
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)Remember how Republicans fought tooth and nail to prevent hand counted paper ballot recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania? They were successful.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)malthaussen
(18,293 posts)Yeah, yeah, Kamala won, the election was stolen, blah, blah. Funny, the GOP made the same claims in 2020. I reckon every election we have in the future (if there are any) will be disputed by the loser. And do you know how many times this particular "bombshell" has been bruited about the 'Net since the polls closed? More like a wet firecracker.
Stipulate it's true, so what? Who's gonna pull the present Boss out of the WH and install the "rightful" winner? There's nobody to bell that particular cat, so it is meaningless.
-- Mal
gab13by13
(29,873 posts)tritsofme
(19,548 posts)No different than Trump 2020 election deniers.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)Polybius
(20,912 posts)
Chemical Bill
(2,939 posts)That's a big difference from 2024.
Botany
(75,370 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 24, 2025, 06:24 PM - Edit history (1)
And Harris undervote has been explained as she just didnt get the voter turn out but
in reality the other side cheated and Theil/Palantir were running digital janitor that hid
the deleted and switched votes.
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the
IbogaProject
(5,040 posts)And SpaceX went live with satalite cell capabilities just before the election. And either way, Tangerine Ceaser didn't win in a "Landslide" he didn't even get 50%. It angers me that simple lies never get corrected with Taco.
Botany
(75,370 posts)D.T.C. (Direct To Cell Starlink)* with firmware patches that were put onto both
E.S.& S. and dominion voting systems central tabulators and operating systems.
This allowed for monitoring and manipulation of the data with out anybody noticing.
*
https://www.starlink.com/us/business/direct-to-cell?srsltid=AfmBOoqDuUskzdd1br1yX0s209WRRUgVe-gnU4Igq1McrRept_UBvCO1
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)And if we don't recognize their objective and try and stop it, we are handing the election to them...and their trickery.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)slightlv
(6,618 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)Yesterdays Atlantic:
The people who are still convinced Kamala won.
https://apple.news/AJFb2dghVTXWC1X3bIepozQ
The theory has many problems. No evidence exists for Zarnowskis claims about his background other than his own word. Elsewhere, a LinkedIn profile calls him a former CIA paramilitary operations officer and an expert in the subject of human trafficking, but nothing suggests his statistical or elections expertise; a self-published book is full of oddball claims. I attempted to reach Zarnowski using a couple of different methods but received no response. (Snopes, which was able to contact Zarnowski, reported that he did not provide definitive proof of his professional background or the alleged audit.)
Moreover, nothing in the Substack post actually supports Zarnowskis claims; instead, it offers innuendo about voting-machine failures and the companies that sell elections equipment. Neither the NSA nor any other federal agency conducts elections audits, nor is there any plausible explanation for why they would do so. The absence of an actual audit here or anywhere else is notable: As with the claims offered by Trump and his allies in 2020 and 2021, the theory relies on implication, with hard evidence seemingly always just out of reach.
But there are more fundamental issues of logic in the theory. States actually do conduct audits of their votes, and unlike the supposed NSA audit, the process and results of those reviews are public. The theory appears to suppose that Democratic officials in key swing states conspired to help Trump and hurt Harris, for whatever unstated reason. These claims ring as hollow and grifting as nearly identical claims made by those who profited off the Big Lie that Trump didnt lose the 2020 election, David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a nonpartisan nonprofit, wrote in an email.
Much more at link, or go to the Atlantic site.
gab13by13
(29,873 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)There was no such thing in 2020, and theres no such thing now.
Forensic audits are a made up concept to sow doubt because no state performs them, so the illogical conclusion is, there must be chicanery afoot.
All states audit their elections. To believe in 2024 elections fraud, you have to believe the Dem secs of state in multiple swing states are dishonest.
More from the Atlantic:
Knocking down false claims is frustrating work, especially when the same ideas that were debunked four years ago pop up again from new culprits. Grimmer has spent countless hours chasing down the truth, explaining it to reporters, and even debating election deniers. And so I was struck by the compassion he showed for people who fall for the theories. The people who believe them, theyre not crazy people, he told me.
Its hard to believe that a majority of the country disagrees with your choice when youre so passionate and certain about your choice, Grimmer said. Theyre smart people, and they think, I must be able to discover whats going on here. Sometimes, though, reality just doesnt work the way we expect.
Yeah, yeah, Palintir blah, blah, blah.
Harris lost.
Election denialism weakens our ability to resist the current regime and fight for the future because so many are Quixotically tilting at windmills that they think are dragons.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)Im talking about you pretending that many people would need to be involved, its not true and the video explains why
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)90 million people didnt vote who couldve.
Thats the only number you need to know.
Harris lost.
Im a denialism denier, stuck firmly in the reality based community.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)I believe it was stalin who said, who votes doesnt matter, its who counts the votes
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)I reject them all as not being based in reality.
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)I was just thinking there hadn't been a big "Trump stole the election" thread here in a long time.
Thanks for the link! I hadn't seen that, but I had read that Substack and it was blatantly obvious to me it was total nonsense. As a professional statistician myself, I can say unequivocally that the author of that Substack does not have a clue about real statistics.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,859 posts)I thank you.
llmart
(16,879 posts)I even have doubts he won his first go-round.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)Things looked "hinky" on election night 2016, as well. The way the numbers veered in the other direction for PA, MI, WI. It didn't "math" for me then, and still doesn't.
RVN VET71
(3,037 posts)Hard but, sadly, not impossible.
If the 2024 vote was, in fact, manipulated, it will be interesting historically. But, in either case, there is nothing that can be done about it now. The troops are already preparing to invade American cities. Trump's brain trust: chiefly Miller but many mediocre others (Bondi, Carr, Hegseth, Patel, for example, but also SCOTUS' fascist leaning "conservatives", led by Roberts), are strategizing how to keep and broaden power by destroying and/or co-opting the remaining legal avenues of protest and law enforcement.
We are, in my opinion, fucked.
I will vote. Of course I will. But I feel that my vote is not going to matter much because the Fascist GOP has plans for their candidates in the next national election to cruise through to victory, winning Putinesque percentages of the vote.
All that's left for us (sans bloodshed) is to shut up and wait for the sound of the jackboot on the stairs or to write strongly worded letters from Yellow Knife, Canada.
Mr.Bee
(1,255 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220048042
This post was removed for breaking the following rule: No kooky, extremist, or hate content.
MichMan
(16,000 posts)tritsofme
(19,548 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,255 posts)If someone says they won in a landslide, has a mandate, won all the popular vote
YOU MUST BELIEVE!
AverageOldGuy
(3,000 posts)We knock off this Trump lost in 2034 bullshit and get busy winning 2026 and 2028
Mr.Bee
(1,255 posts)I don't think we can wait til 2034 for him to lose...
rubbersole
(10,610 posts)Or ever again. Never a legitimate one anyway.
Kid Berwyn
(22,006 posts)No way could a depraved, insane, imbecilic traitor win fair-and-square.
karin_sj
(1,251 posts)I've felt this from day one and so have many people I've talked to.
KS Toronado
(21,382 posts)if the votes in the last election were manipulated, what are we going to do to ensure they can't
duplicate their shenanigans in the midterms? If we don't take the House & Senate back in the
midterms I'm afraid Fascism is here to stay.
malaise
(289,501 posts)Very important
KS Toronado
(21,382 posts)
bluestarone
(20,377 posts)Everyone of us have our opinions, and our opinions ONLY. Now in 2026, and 2028 we will have (i hope we will) possibly the most important elections our great country will ever have. Now wouldn't it be nice to KNOW for sure if there was shenanigans that took place with that last election? For Gods sake in the states we have the MOST control, i don't care how but maybe a go fund me for the costs. Find out who would support these recounts!! I think there are very few of us that 100% trusts how honest that election was. There, i said my piece. Adding here, i'm not thinking of undoing what ALREADY is, but with THIS supreme court, we HAVE to find out for sure, then proceed with ALL eyes forward!!
KS Toronado
(21,382 posts)and I'm talking higher ups with resources to do some surveys in these swing states were polls
showed we should win but didn't.
Pick out a couple counties and do a house by house canvas or send all voters a prepaid postcard
asking who they voted for.
It would not be that expensive to do and if we found BIG discrepancies that would open up all
kinds of doors for our side.
Or have there been surveys done already that I'm aware of ?????
EdmondDantes_
(947 posts)The average of polls showed a tied race and that's basically what we got.
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/382161/harris-trump-final-polls-2024-who-will-win
https://preview.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/04/presidential-election-polls-2024-harris-trump/76041022007/
KS Toronado
(21,382 posts)posted right here on DU.
EdmondDantes_
(947 posts)I posted multiple poll averages that disputes your claim. An individual poll cherry picked because it said what someone wanted to believe isn't as credible as more.
KS Toronado
(21,382 posts)Where did I supply a "An individual poll cherry picked" by me you seem to be upset about?
I clicked on one of your links and it showed Democrats leading in polls but we were losing ground
getting close to the election.
YOU WANT PROOF? GO READ THE ARTICLES YOU SUPPLIED!
ARE YOU THE INFAMOUS POLL-BOY ? Have a nice day, I'll not respond again.
EdmondDantes_
(947 posts)Presenting evidence is a pretty important part of a discussion. The links I provided showed polls were well within the margin of error and we're behind in many of the swing states. You're entitled to express whatever opinions you like, including calling me names as you did, but the reality is, the narrative you created isn't correct. Not sure why that inspired an all caps post.
RoseTrellis
(35 posts)it's human nature to share good news, and selectively ignore unfavorable news.
We all know that every poll that showed us in the lead was trumpeted, and the few that did get posted that showed tRump in the lead were dismissed.
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)Why would any higher up in the party waste money chasing ridiculous conspiracy theories that they already know are nonsense?
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)tritsofme
(19,548 posts)Not to mention they are a vicious attack on the character of Kamala Harris.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)questionseverything
(11,244 posts)The idea that we the people cant hand count the votes is ridiculous, what are they hiding?
bluestarone
(20,377 posts)I understand Marc Elias has made statements that no way was there election cheating took place. He is one of our best and smartest lawyers. That's why i do believe what he's saying. I, being very dependent on their thoughts think he's correct, BUT i cannot help mixed feelings at times. TSF CHEATS at everything, and i mean everything, so he's NOT beyond screwing us all. The reason i posted my thread is because i wish we were 100% sure of no problems in 2026 and 28. I know people here don't like stolen election talk, but that's how i feel.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)MichMan
(16,000 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)bluestarone
(20,377 posts)I just wish so much we could just do two Recounts in two of our most trusted states. I'm not even thinking of changing results. I just want to prove, one way or another, for our own information.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)questioning the election or requesting recounts.
How can a request for paper ballot hand recounts be questioned?
BUT! There was a strong message to NOT be election deniers.
And that after all the recounts in 2020? Come on!
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)NOBODY has done more to protect democracy and election integrity than Marc Elias. I can assure you, nobody "advised" Marc Elias to do anything. Elias has said the idea that Trump only won the election because he cheated is nonsense because as the foremost elections lawyer in the US, he KNOWS it's nonsense.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)But if he was warned (and convinced) by the consultant class to stay away from questioning election results, I don't know how he would react. Do you?
And as others have said on this thread - he is not a computer programmer.
I have never had a reasonable and logical explanation for why the Harris campaign did not request paper ballot hand recounts. Ultimately it was up to them. I have always suspected the consultant class discouraged it for a variety of reasons.
Interestingly, another DUer posited one of my theories, in this thread.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20671972
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)his integrity. That's very insulting.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)please tell him I apologize if I insulted him.
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)
Good lord this is sad.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)in covering a stolen election? I did not say anything of that kind.
I am much more exacting with my thought process than that.
I do not believe Marc Elias is a "cover up" type person. I do not believe Kamala Harris is a "cover up" type person. Did the consultant class or Democratic strategists guide others away from recounts? Perhaps. Is that a cover up? I don't know - IMHO it is certainly ill advised.
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)If he was convinced to stay away from questioning election results, despite knowing better, that would be clear participation in a cover up.
However the reality is that Elias has spoken out against these goofy conspiracy theories, because he knows they have no merit, it is no different from the Trumpers four years ago.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)If he chose not to force action, that it is not the same thing as being complicit in a cover up. I think and speak in nuance - not absolutes. Apparently I think and communicate differently than you. I do not put words in peoples' mouths. I ask questions for clarification. I choose not to try and explain the difference to you.
I will continue to LOVE Marc Elias and continue to donate to Democracy Docket.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)unblock
(55,653 posts)Without speculating on fudging the numbers somehow, they spent massively on propaganda, lied relentlessly, made up wild accusations, distracted and confused voters, and their funding included foreign money and so on.
Then they distorted the actual electorate by requiring voter id, selectively purging voter rolls, intimidating selected populations about the consequences of "voter fraud", shifted resources to create longer lines in select precincts, etc.
Then they also benefit from other undemocratic aspects of our system, notably the electoral college.
Bottom line is that instead of reflecting the will of the people, the results reflect the single-day opinion of those who were allowed to vote and for whom voting was not made overly difficult.
This is how we end up with an emerging dictator thatvthe majority strongly disapproves of. This doesn't happen in a functioning democracy, or if it does, such a leader is kicked out pronto.
Doesn't mean they actually flipped cast votes. I have no doubt they would if they could and felt it necessary, but there's no need to speculate.
My biggest reason for skepticism as to actual vote-flipping is that this clown crowd of incompetence has never demonstrated enough skill to pull such a thing off without it being ridiculously obvious. It's just not their m.o. they screw up all over the place and do their crimes obviously, the bully people into overlooking it.
Doodley
(11,432 posts)questionseverything
(11,244 posts)Perhaps manipulating the results is easy by programming a pre determined result into each precincts machine but they realized they would need names to match the inflated numbers they spit out as results
So musk bought them
Just s theory
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)Not to mention, wouldn't they have ensured a significant House majority, rather than a barely by the skin of their teeth majority they got?
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)So I never understand why anyone would think they would draw the line at manipulating election results
unblock
(55,653 posts)Some 80% red precinct turning up with more trump voters than total voters registered in that district, sure, that I'll believe.
It's the big, carefully orchestrated, sophisticated plot that they pull off without getting caught that I find considerably less plausible. But if they had the means, sure, they would absolutely do it.
SSJVegeta
(1,590 posts)I have a buddy who has very strong ties to Dearborn, Michigan. This is a community that flipped strongly in favor of Trump after being reliably (around 95% maybe?) Democratic in every election before. He knew his community well, how they were feeling about Harris becaue of the Plaestinian and Lebanese conflict (which seemed intentionally started specifically to peel away that key voting groups from Harris). He told me for months before the election that unless Harris came out in favor of Palestine, she would lose Michigan. I didnt believe him, but once the election came around everything he said came together like clockwork in its logic. But the thing, Arab Americans weren't the only ones who were turned off because of the Israel issue, and I still believe to this day that one issue flipped the entire election.
IbogaProject
(5,040 posts)Then the word on the street was Gennocide Joe and those protests lost their funding immediately after the election.
SSJVegeta
(1,590 posts)SCantiGOP
(14,604 posts)Are the same crap that MAGA threw out in contesting the 2020 election, and both arguments are equally foolish and indefensible.
SSJVegeta
(1,590 posts)Bluepinky
(2,483 posts)Their data analysis suggests manipulation of vote counts involving computer systems in widespread use. They filed a lawsuit last year in Rockland County, NY, after the 2024 election, requesting a hand count of the votes. The lawsuit is still viable, but Repubs have created so many delays, it hasnt been done.
Data analysis conducted by Smart elections also noted unusual vote counts after a certain threshold of votes were cast.
MichMan
(16,000 posts)Instead of the swing states?
Bluepinky
(2,483 posts)They have looked at data from multiple states and found anomalies. They filed the lawsuit in one small county to see if the hand count would match up with the electronic count, which they explain well in the video. Due to delays, the count has yet to be done.
MichMan
(16,000 posts)Will that satisfy those who believe it was stolen from Harris?
Bluepinky
(2,483 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)There is zero chance of it being successful.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)Are you saying Americans dont have the right to oversee their own elections?
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)or taking the time to find those prior posts. Instead, I'll just say to read this Substack which lays it out. I'm sure you won't be convinced, but I can't do anything about that. I fully expect this lawsuit to be dismissed just like the previous lawsuits these people filed as detailed in the Substack. In short, they have NO evidence to support their claims.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-167466926
kentuck
(114,710 posts)It would be Donald Trump.
Laws and rules be damned!
annielion
(69 posts)Monday, Sept. 29, 8 pm ET. SmartElections.us will host a non-partisan, data-based Election Verification Orientation to train anyone to identify red flags, collect and verify election data in real time and will connect people to regional and state teams. See SmartElections.us website for more details.
Bluepinky
(2,483 posts)Their videos are excellent in explaining what may be occurring in our voting systems.
Celerity
(52,142 posts)questionseverything
(11,244 posts)The software that preformed one way in testing and differently when driven
Doodley
(11,432 posts)They were all on good quality card from Musk's PAC and all told lies, including that Democrats tried to kill Trump, and they put the fear of God into people and made Trump look like he was there for the people. Put that with outspending on social media spending. Republicans had a very simple message people could sum up in a few words. Democrats didn't. Yes, Republicans gaslit, but it worked. Musk spent nearly 300 million, getting swing states to go Trump. That is your answer to any anomalies.
Bluepinky
(2,483 posts)Trump and the Repubs grossly outspent the Dems and put out erroneous information about their agenda AND there could also be fraud with regard to computerized voting systems.
From what I could see in my blue-leaning purple state of NH, there was overwhelming support and enthusiasm for Kamala, and subdued support for Trump. I believe elections are fair in my state, but Im not sure if this is true everywhere.
You should watch some of the videos put out by SmartElections.us, they have unearthed vote counting anomalies. They seem very credible. You wont hear any of this information on mainstream news.
PufPuf23
(9,603 posts)Initially thought election loss was because:
1) I do not relate to how many Americans think and act
2) Democrats as too often self-destructed what should have been an easy win.
3) Cloud over Gaza and those that favor Trump to be more amenable to Netanyahu's led violence.
Now have doubts.
GOP, MSM and Netanyahu literally make me ill to where eroding hope, losing sleep and exacerbating chronic illness and aging that are my lot. Very sad too.
returnee
(677 posts)If its true and we dont fix it, TSF will have been correct when he said he didnt need votes anymore. I suspect that sometime just before the Black Journalists conference, he was informed that the fix was in, and after that he couldnt help but talk about it, and being even more overtly racist.
returnee
(677 posts)Consider this: they thought the fix was in in 2020, thanks to Putin, but somehow it didnt work. So Putin said, Muddy the water with endless assertions of stolen election so we can fix the fix, and no one will dare cry foul after we steal it in 2024. Then he shoots off his big mouth once the fix is fixed and he starts crowing about not needing votes because he can help himself. Fanciful, I know, but he is, as we know, very transparent, and every accusation is a confession. It fits in my mind, anyway. ymmv.
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)a la Pootin style.
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)If you are pushing these 2024 election conspiracy theories, you really only have two options when it comes to the reaction of Kamala Harris.
You are either arguing that she is well aware that the election was stolen from her (and us) and yet she has for whatever reason chosen not to say anything, making her complicit in a cover-up
Or you folks just think that Harris and her billion dollar plus campaign were too dumb to figure out the election was stolen from her even though internet conspiracy mongers figured it out almost immediately.
This is not only delusional nonsense, it is an attack on Harris and the entire Democratic Party.
MichMan
(16,000 posts)They were either complicit, or too incompetent to see what was happening right under their noses
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)questionseverything
(11,244 posts)How would any candidate be expected to know it within hours of the election?
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)Like the Trumpers in 2020, these election denialists will latch onto any outlandish or previously discredited claim.
If there was truly fraud, the Harris team would have caught it themselves. She has been all over tv the last week, and has expressed no skepticism about the validity of the election.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)And find hidden malware?
Of course they couldnt because it is illegal to examine the software/ hard drive that counts our votes
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)The idea that the Harris team was completely unaware the election was stolen from under them, but these goofballs figured it out is laughable.
All their nonsense is out in the public now, and Harris has had ample opportunity in the last few days to express even mild skepticism, but has declined.
Thats because Kamala Harris is a member of the reality based community.
kimbutgar
(26,136 posts)By hacking the vote tabulators in Republican controlled swing states.
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)Not to mention, many of the swing states Trump won were controlled by Democrats.
Are they part of this conspiracy theory too?
kimbutgar
(26,136 posts)Theres nothing I can do but I think the orange turd is an illegal pos president.
tritsofme
(19,548 posts)Pretending it didnt really happen doesnt teach any lessons.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)And I believe they all had Democratic Secretaries of State as well.
questionseverything
(11,244 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)We are supposed to believe that two ruthless psychopaths
who had everything to lose if Trump was not in the WH, did not cheat.
Trump facing prison, huge legal debts and fines.
The loss of his wealth, and the humiliation of prison.
Prison he could not handle.
Putin, facing the loss of Ukraine, the loss of his power and wealth as well.
These two men are the most brutal, ruthless psychopaths on the planet today.
We see every day what Trump is capable of.
We see his crimes on TV.
Rape trial, his treason, etc.
But he would not cheat to steal the WH?
Putin invades a country and gives his soldiers unlimited vodka and Viagra with
the orders to rape as many woman and children as possible. He has ordered
the wholesale slaughter of civilians, year after year.
But he would not cheat to get his pal in the WH.
But they played fair and square in the election that would save their necks,
their freedom, their wealth.
Sure.
Others have gone over the voting irregularities in great detail.
I am talking about the psychology profiles of the main players.
malaise
(289,501 posts)Truth will out eventually
Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)But everyone acts confused and perplexed.
I don't know if the truth will come out in our lifetime.
But we know what the truth is.
I also want to add the other suspects in the crime.
The billionaires with access to all the tech resources in the world.
For example: Elon Musk. We must add him to the list of suspects.
Another psychopath who would sell his own mother for a dollar.
Hates the US.
Was facing investigations for his legal/financial irregularities.
Another one facing jail time and loss of wealth.
And he wouldn't cheat to win the WH?
yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,174 posts)Coldwater
(220 posts)did anyone else notice how unusually quiet trump was after his victory in November, as If he knew he stole the election and needed to keep his mouth shut out of fear of being caught.
Wiz Imp
(7,516 posts)madinmaryland
(65,584 posts)spanone
(140,273 posts)Roxi
(2,187 posts)I think most of us knew it was stolen on election night. The numbers made no sense, especially not after his lackluster rallies and all of the positive energy (edit: for Kamala) we were seeing from all over the country.
The question is, what can we do about it?
Theres no precedent, no recourse, no constitutional way to fix this situation. There are ways to remove him from office, of course, but all of those avenues simply plop the VP into his place. Obviously, that wont fix the problem.
Where do we go from here?
malaise
(289,501 posts)but young folks will know we had serious doubts from day one.
OLDMDDEM
(2,760 posts)GreenWave
(11,694 posts)They did this in states where trump lost but thought he had won. This allows some tech gurus, say Elon Muskovites, to figure out how to rig them for future events.
If Trumpty Dumpty overwhelmingly lost ground on paper hand counts vs. machine count, then a case can be made.
I did notice on election night the trump butt kissing media were all too eager to claim his wins and make Harris supporters wait deep into the night.
Having said all this, it was still up to Harris to not concede if she felt fraud and she did not.
How did Trump win ALL the swing states? I don't know, but as a St. Louis Rams fan, I am still wondering how Belichick had his defense in perfect position for all of madman Martz's crazy BRAND NEW trick plays? Guy in the stands, so the NFL tore up the evidence for the good of the Patriots game and if this discovery and the election is proven correct repugs will say she conceded, blah, blah, blah, sore loser etc.