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by jtxxwl 6y ago
>they'd be 100% convinced the election was fair is if had Trump won. Maybe some would. But I'll tell you, if the democrats wanted it to look like they were running a fair election despite their vitriolic hatred of Trump, they c
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
>Indeed, but great-grandparent's assertions that said votes are reliably democratic are nonsense. They seem pretty reasonable to me, having looked at the numbers. The Cuban community is the only community of fairly recent immigrants
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
>So you think hundreds of thousands of ballots were out of view and somehow swapped with fake ballots I think probably several different kinds of election fraud took place because observers were too far away. If election observers are 6
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
If we agree to flip a coin for $20, and you obstruct my view while you're tossing the coin, you can be sure you're not going to get my $20 no matter what you say afterward, unless you have earned quite a lot of my trust beforehand
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
If I were arguing in court, you would be absolutely right. The only thing you are missing is this pesky little thing called me arguing in court. I don't have any reason to believe it would be possible to prove in a court that election
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
>Prove it in court or shut up. I don't think you read my comment. My point is not to prove anything in court, or to argue that anything related to the election can be proved in court. It is to argue that it's completely reasona
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
If the local election officials wanted to convince me they ran the election fairly, they would have had to have allowed observers to do their job without imposing any restrictions on them that would impair their ability to observe. If that
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
Where the onus lies is dependent on who you are and what your goals are. If you occupy an elected office, and you want people to believe that you were elected legitimately, then the onus is on you to convince the people of that, if they are
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
Trump cheated in 2016, did he not? The republicans have been cheating for many decades (legally in some cases, illegally in others), necessitating the voting rights act, have they not? Is voter suppression not cheating?
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
Certainly not legally (until they become citizens), but their children can when they turn 18, and said immigration has been happening for many decades.
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
Is Trump's record so bad that local election officials would be justified in cheating in the election to prevent another term, hypothetically?
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by jtxxwl 6y ago
Hopefully the wonderful moderators on this board reprimand you for posting political flamebait and attempting to use hacker news for political or ideological battle.