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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> disclaimer No idea what disclaimer you are referring to. > as any human alive would know he's joking. On the contrary, I know that he's not joking. He doesn't think he's joking. This isn't a one-off commen
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> I am asserting that errors happened. Errors are not fraud. The current push by the Trump administration is (allegedly) about fraud. > The American public overwhelmingly wants voter ID, as other countries have, but this is a topic no
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> Sure, fix those problems too. They do exist. What's interesting is that those are problems created by the same people who are currently trying to disenfranchise people through the current push to takeover state elections through
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> The whistleblower is saying the rules are crafted so certain people don't get counted. Specifically, minorities, specifically, democrat minorities. Well. Who could possibly have predicted this. /s
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> it's a waste of time being a conservative on HN or Reddit. But yet here you are. > There is no room for discourse or nuance. Try me! > If you voted for Trump you are a fascist and a pedo and nobody wants to hear your thought
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
1 was not yet flagged at the time that I wrote that. Nevertheless, you can reconstruct what was written from the quotes in its responses. > Which "side" has been fighting tooth and nail for unverifiable mail-in ballots > res
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> Any/Every discussion that makes the top page on HN about politics will flood out most of the conservative discussion, further most of the comments are echo chamber 'me too, I keep waiting for all these well-thought-out, factu
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> It reads as the exact sort of evidence free misinformation driven conspiratorial sweeping assertion that you're now complaining about. It reads that way only if you are intentionally ignoring evidence. We're talking about an
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
> If you were writing software, would you overlook a problem like that? They didn't overlook it. They fixed the error. If you are asserting that this error was a partisan, intentional attempt to change the outcome of the election, y
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by hackyhacky 23d ago
I think it's amusing how partisan your notion of "rigor" is. Because of a run-of-the-mill software error, you want to take away election power from the states and hand it to the federal government, which at the moment is in t
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> Even if someone posted a thoughtful rebuttal You could easily test this by posting a thoughtful rebuttal. I've been posting actively on this thread and I haven't yet seen a thoughtful rebuttal, although there have been severa
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> I mean, there are plenty of instances if you are willing to look I am willing to look and I see exactly zero cases of widespread, organized, mail ballot voting by non-citizens of the type that Republicans say is widespread, despite lac
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> Actually you need a REAL ID to board a plane now. If you don't have a REAL ID or passport, you can just pay a $50 fee and get on the plane anyway. So whatever the REAL ID proves cannot be essential to security.
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> So yes, a driver’s license is sufficient ID to vote in many states. At the moment, yes. Under Republican voter ID proposals that require proving citizenship, no. Having an SSN does not imply US citizenship.
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> Yes, but a driver's license can be accepted as ID So what would that accomplish? The Trump playbook asserts that there is a massive conspiracy involving noncitizen voting. Their proposals involve proving citizenship to vote. And n
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
I'm assuming that your question is not offered in good faith, but just in case I'm wrong: no, you could just see where they live.
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> It’s extremely uncommon. 34 million people [1] or about 10 percent of the US population lack a form of ID that would be required under a voter ID law. The fact that you assert otherwise, without evide, shows that you live in a privileg
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> imagine if in The Netherlands you can waltz in and say you are this person or that person That's not at all how it works. Typically, you do need to present ID to register. You also need to verify your address on the day of votin
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
My brother in Christ, you are projecting so hard it hurts. The comment that I responded to simply said "Survivorship bias" in response to a question about only Republicans getting caught doing voter fraud. Your attempt to theorize
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> why would you invoke planes? I already told you why planes are relevant. It sounds like you really don't know what survivorship bias is at all. Please read the article [1]. Why are you in such a hurry to a discuss a topic that you
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> Trump supporters used to speak up on this site. Surely they still exist but all I hear is crickets They are here. But their contributions are, let's say, not motivated by fact-based reasoning. Not surprising: it's very hard t
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> then you should look up what survivorship bias is. I know what survivorship bias is. The classic example of survivorship bias is analyzing damage patterns of planes returning from war. Clearly, some planes were shot down and did not re
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
No, they do not. Getting an ID card in most places requires a fee, as well a trip to the DMV or equivalent, and providing documentation such as a birth certificate, which also requires a fee. You take this process for granted because you li
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> Our elections are beyond broken and untrustworthy. You assert this without evidence. People have spent years looking for evidence of widespread voter fraud without success [1]. > voting should have a barrier to entry. Your freedoms
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
Most of Europe and Asia have mandatory, free national ID cards.
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> he is implying that the focus on the republican cases (the survivors) is a red herring because the system is presumably such that an actual conspiracy cannot be detected. Maybe GP is implying that, but that's not what they said, b
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> Survivorship bias Huh? Survival of what? Are you claiming that Democrat fraud was not found only because the perpetrators are all dead?
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> Which "side" has been fighting tooth and nail for unverifiable mail-in ballots Mail-in ballots are currently accepted in 23 states [1], including Utah, Kansas, and Florida. Which "side" is that? Please note Donald T
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
Depends where you are. Parts that were too cold are greener. Parts that were green are now brown [1]. That's how global warming works. That might be fine with you if you currently live in a colder climate, but it's going to result
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by hackyhacky 24d ago
> If I take a look, through a security lens, of the existing mail in process from registration to recording votes, it’s quite shocking. What about it is "shocking"? Please be specific. Please note that the alleged justification

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