Just stop, dude. You had your chance to evenly enforce these rules and the whole country watched you not do it. No one is going to abide by this. You blew it.
Measures like this only work in the setting of overwhelming public compliance. America (thankfully) does not have enough law enforcement to force public compliance with an edict like this, so its efficacy depends on public faith in its elected officials.
When they see these measures being enforced against some populations but not others, a large enough percentage of the population to wreck the whole plan sees that (justifiably!) as an indictment of the honesty of politicians and the media.
I don't understand how anyone could have not predicted this.
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I have been spending virtually all day reading through this stack of affidavits the Trump campaign provided regarding voter irregularities in Michigan. Some of the stuff should be investigated, but a lot of the stuff is... this.
"I can confirm that I was made to stay six feet away from the table but sometimes I didn't."
Thanks for your input.
There are a bunch of indications that these affidavits were not thoroughly checked before being released to the entire world. Although the names of voters (where identified in the affidavit) are usually redacted, I have caught some instances where they are not.
As I continue to run things down, I wanted to jot down a few thoughts about voter fraud, and why I think it is fairly frequent on a small scale basis and largely impossible to pull off on a large scale basis. 1/
I would view it as more likely that the counting software caused serious problems than I would that there are massive numbers of fraudulent votes. The reason is pretty simple: creating a vote creates a paper trail and each instance significantly ups the risk of being caught 2/
At a certain point, risk becomes certainty. Remember, first of all, that you can't just print a ballot and stuff it in a ballot box. The ballot has to be associated with a voter who is REGISTERED and who is recorded as casting a ballot at a precinct that day. 3/
After five days spent chasing down every even semi-plausible theory that was given to me by anyone, I view it to be almost certain at this point that what happened on Tuesday (and in the weeks preceding) is that Joe Biden secured enough legal votes to win the Electoral College 1/
I think it's important, for the health of the country and the integrity of the election process, that any credible accusation pertaining to the integrity of the voting process should be pursued to the fullest practical extent. 2/
To the extent that the Trump campaign has concerns about the votes in any particular location, they should be given full access to physically inspect ballots and verify tabulations and the legality of every ballot cast. 3/
I'm trying to limit what I respond to here because, believe it or not, I'm a little busy, but I have a feeling that this video should be addressed. 1/
I knew immediately when I saw this that I was almost certainly looking at someone transferring legal votes from ballots that were damaged or defective (printed wrong or somehow mangled by the machine) to ballots that could be machine fed. 2/
This is a normal thing that happens in every place where ballots are counted by machine and the clue that it's not anything nefarious is that it's obviously being done in a room that is visibly full of people. 3/
The first part of this tweet is absolutely not true, and people should stop repeating it. The uncontested testimony, including of the Trump campaign, is that when the doors were locked and windows covered, the Trump campaign had >100 watchers inside 1/
It turns out that the doors were closed and windows covered for good reason. Even though more than the allotted numbers of observers were inside, people (some not even poll watchers) were trying to barge in and record on phones. 2/
Obviously not a great situation for counters, who are probably volunteers, to be potentially put on social media. When they shut them out so the counters could work, people were crowding around windows trying to film. 3/
Thread re one of the things I keep seeing thrown around as evidence of fraud is the manner in which the media has reported vote totals. The allegation that has raised its head more than any other I've seen concerns massive tranches of votes coming in 100% for Biden. 1/
The most important, number one thing to note about the media's reporting of results is that IT IS NOT RELEVANT AT ALL. The media isn't even getting the figures you've been seeing from official tallies, they get them from private data companies. 2/
These companies are not official and nothing they say counts. They provide a service to media orgs by calling counties and getting totals and inputting them faster than official state websites do... 3/