Thread by @odanu

These late-breaking numbers in swing states are why Trump didn't want anyone to vote by mail. Let me break it down:

Since 2004 at least, elections security experts are *positive* that actual votes are being changed on electronic voting machines. In order to calculate how many

votes to change, you have to know how many opposing votes are coming in, because otherwise, you risk the exit polls alerting officials to discrepancies and forcing a recount. So vote by mail and absentee voting makes this sort of cheating much more difficult.

Another form of cheating is to put laws in place at different levels of government that disadvantage voters you don't want to vote, effectively suppressing the vote. EVERY SINGLE ELECTION EVER has had some form of vote suppression, usually targeting vulnerable populations.

Absentee and mail-in voting are actually the safest ways to vote in most elections, because modern technology provides an audit trail from the request for the ballot, to the voter, to the mail system, to the election board, and then to the final count.

So Trump came up with a new layer, and successfully suppressed voting in key districts by slowing mail delivery to and from those districts, as well as actively hiding or destroying a minimum of 300k ballots from districts unfavorable to him.

But because mail in voting can't be predicted and accounted for in precise percentages, unlike counts in electronic voting devices which hackers can access nearly instantly, the cheaters have to *guess* at how many votes to actively add in step one. And high voter turnout can

make this number unpredictable.

So all Trump has left is to file a bunch of lawsuits that boil down to "The law didn't' work in my favor in these key states, so I want it changed mid-election (because we are mid-election until all state votes are certified), and literally

no court is going to find that a convincing argument. This won't get to the Supreme Court. There aren't a bunch of conflicting laws within one state to contend with here, but clear and varying laws in different states THAT ARE BEING FOLLOWED. With the lead he has as of right now,

at 10:20 CDT on 11/4/2020, Biden has won despite all the cheating, and there is still a chance for Dems to take the Senate. If all of the votes are tallied properly (and all but the post office votes will be, at least) the Senate becomes more likely. And Trump will retire.