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Related: About this forumAs Trump Worked Presidency's Power To Seize Voting Machines, Local Backers Got The Message - TRMS
Rachel Maddow looks at the the growing collection of reporting on the Trump campaign's effort to find a way to seize the voting machines in swing states Donald Trump lost in his 2020 election defeat, and how that effort was understood at the local level with the need for a direct order from Trump. [edited for length from the original broadcast]. Aired on 02/03/2022.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)of 2016. Because he spent 2 months in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and dull, stupid people in counties with hick towns and cities voted like they were giving out 20 bottles of free whiskey, and the turnout surprised everyone, and he barely squeaked into office.
It still makes no sense, and how was polling so far off? Even HRC's internal polls? Comey or not it was a deeply unexpected result.
Rhiannon12866
(205,434 posts)And we've learned that unless it's a blowout as it was in 2020, they managed to find a way to cheat - Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Check out the size of the spreadsheets involved in discovering:
How Kerry Votes Were Switched To Bush Votes
Not that any Republicans reacted to this evidence being discovered!
Of course, you can well imagine they used black box voting areas only in 2016, so there would be no paper evidence and the "proof" would only be statistical inference.
Rhiannon12866
(205,434 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)some shady shit all over the place