This could be fun, just for the irritation value.
While I appreciate the gesture, this is going nowhere.
Mike Farb has pointed out several discrepancies which on their face warrant a closer look. In particular, the broad swings between e-day and EV just seem too perfectly aligned, where the e-day swing almost perfectly offsets the EV margin with more votes cast on e-day to produce a narrow GOP win. The idea that Dems vote early and GOP vote late are not likely to be this symmetrically aligned.
We’ve had 3 elections where there has been some suspicion of rigging of end totals (FL '00; OH '04; '16 (everywhere)). I really do hope that the judges will stop looking at this as partisan whining and politically destabilizing and actually allow the case to move forward and discovery to take place. Let judges (and juries) hear from experts about the statistical anomalies that would suggest fraud in any other context. The nation has a fear to acknowledge that our elections could be rigged, and the GOP takes full advantage of that timidity to push the envelope. Today’s tools make rigging more than a non-trivial statistical likelihood. Let’s dive into this one. Let’s root out where the vulnerabilities are and whether hacking occurred. We already know the Russians did successfully hack our voting systems in '16 but that DHS is too scared to find out how much damage they actually did.
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Agree with every bit of your comment. And we know that Dallas Co. Texas was a Russian target and we vote on Diebold evoting machines.
A spokeswoman for Kemp did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. But in a column Sunday in USA Today, Kemp blamed the news media for developing “false narratives about Russian hacking and potential vulnerabilities in the system. The prevailing plot line is that states like Georgia can’t provide suitable security for elections.”
Kemp asserted that states are doing enough to keep elections secure, and he said, “Anything to the contrary is fake news.”
Well that statement just fills me with confidence in the probity, competence and integrity of said officials.
Addendum: and you know, when you think back over the comments and behavior of the Georgia voting officials since before the special election, and their insistence that their unauditable 1990’s vintage OS machines are fine, just fine, dammit, now git your yankee questions and crazy talk about Russian hacking (whoever heard of such a thing!) out of our bidness!," the the stronger the odor of corruption and fear sweat.
Wouldn’t the expected response if everything was on the up and up usually be something like “as public officials, we take our job of ensuring the sanctity of the vote with the utmost seriousness we are always monitoring and considering ways to make our already high security even better and we therefore welcome these nettlesome intrusive inquires by uppity outsiders?”
The tinge of suppressed hysteria in their statements is unmistakable.
How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
(from Politico)
Whah, whah, thet’s just total nonsense, I do declah! Fake news! Fake news! You take youh ol’ false narrative and git! Nothin’ wrong with ouah machines! Git, I say, befoah I have to call the sheriff on you!
If they let the lawsuit progress, maybe somebody who knows something will get scared and start talking. You never know. People say you can’t believe the polls - maybe the polls are closer to being right than we know.
I know they did, @tiowally. I’ve known it since the day before the election - I knew something was going to happen. And I knew the Russians were all up in the whole thing from about October.
They did and the fact that the GOP government won’t investigate is just more proof that they did it and the GOP knew.
“as elected Republican public officials, we take our job of ensuring the sanctity of the GOP vote with the utmost seriousness we are always monitoring and considering ways to make our already high security registration advantage even better and we therefore welcome these nettlesome intrusive inquires acknowledgements by uppity outsiders?”
"The prevailing plot line is that states like Georgia can’t provide suitable security for elections.”
– Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp
Wrong, you lyin’ sack. The prevailing plot line is that Georgia REFUSES to provided suitable security for elections.
If you want further reassurance of Brian Kemp’s integrity, here is Tom Baxter:
“You might think that after being forced under the pressure of a law suit to admit that his office had allowed the personal information of more than 600,000 Georgia voters to be hacked, Secretary of State Brian Kemp would have been more receptive when the Department of Homeland Security offered to inspect the state’s electronic voting system for bugs and possible entryways for hackers.”
How long will it take before people realize that they sound like idiots when they use the term “fake news”?