'Expert Mathematician' on Election Fraud Actually a Swing Set Installer, Lawsuit Claims

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbk4/expert-mathematician-on-election-fraud-actually-a-swing-set-installer-lawsuit-claims

A man posing as a math expert with evidence Trump won the election is actually a convicted drug dealer with no college degree who installs swing sets, according to a lawsuit.


On January 27, the pro-Trump channel OAN broadcast a segment interviewing an "expert mathematician" named Ed Solomon who claimed to have found evidence within precinct-level reporting that the election was rigged by an algorithm. The basis of Solomon's claim is that he found several precincts throughout the country reporting exactly the same results at various times throughout the vote tabulation process.

Asked by host Christina Bobb what the likelihood of what Solomon claimed to have found being a coincidence is, Solomon replied, "You can use the binomial probability formula, and the chance of that event happening is one over ten to an exponent so large there's not enough stars in the universe—there's not enough atoms in the universe to explain the number. It can't happen naturally."

If this sounds suspiciously vague for a mathematician, that's because Solomon is not actually a mathematician, according to a lawsuit voting machine company Dominion filed against OAN for knowingly reporting defamatory claims against the company in the wake of Trump's loss. In fact, according to the lawsuit, Solomon is a convicted drug dealer and "was working as an 'installer' at a swing set construction company in Long Island" at the time of the interview.

[SergeStorms]

1. "There's not enough atoms in the universe....

to explain the number".

But please do your calculations for us anyway, and show your work.

Fucking swing set installer. I wonder how many kids are in the hospital because of his "expert" installations?

[G2theD]

3. He can only count to 99.

Although I once heard him say “24 is the highest number”. So he’s getting better!

[ret5hd]

12. I thought it was "45 is the bigliest number".

[G2theD]

13. bang!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

8. "and show your work"

That made me smile as I remember that being on math tests back in school.

No wonder OAN is on life support.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. He not only stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, but he also saw Ant Man on the room's television.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. After hanging him by his balls for a few hours, demand he solve...

this for an election: P_{x} = {n choose x} p^{x} q^{n-x} while drinking his own piss.

[G2theD]

4. Where x is the number of atoms in the universe.

[SunSeeker]

5. Wow. Hope Dominian bankrupts all of those assholes. nt

[BHDem53]

6. Sounds like a meth expert to me.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. DUzy!

[COL Mustard]

7. No, not THAT Ed Solomon...

The other Ed Solomon. You know, there’s an endless number of Ed Solomons and the odds of getting the right one are so infinitesimal that you can’t even visualize it. As Carl Sagan said, zillions and zillions.


What a maroon.

[Brenda]

10. hahaha

Thanks for the funniest headline I've seen in awhile. I needed the laugh.

[orthoclad]

14. He's an alpha male

He can only count to 21.