Lin Wood and Sidney Powell strike me as grade A grifters. They are amassing a lot of donations. When they told Georgia Republican voters not to vote on January 5, they came across to me as possibly compromised too (wouldn't Democrats love for them to carry on with that message).
Tweets like Lin Wood's above do no good to either President Trump or to the Republican Party at this point. If anything, they may cost the Republicans the Senate on January 5.
Many of you think highly of Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. I don't. We can agree to disagree on this.
After Jan 5, if Republicans retain the Senate, I wouldn't care less what Lin Wood & Sidney Powell do. They can collect all the donations they want and push whatever agenda they want. But until Jan 5, I consider them toxic for the most important election for GOP and the nation.
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With due respect, this makes little sense, sir. Why are you not scheduled to take the vaccine first? You, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Dr. Fauci should be among the first people in the country to be vaccinated, followed by all members of Congress and the SCOTUS.
1. The Biggest Real Problem with Our Voting System
Whether by design or happenstance, the U.S. has ended up in almost all the States (with rare but relatively small exceptions) with a system that rigorously defies fraud detection and correction for absentee ballots.
2. In this thread I will use the term 'absentee ballot' for all ballots that are not cast in person. It includes all mail-in ballots of course in this usage of the term.
3. By combining absentee ballots with the need to keep the ballots 'secret' has solved one problem by creating another, i.e. secrecy is implemented at the cost of making it harder to detect and almost impossible to correct fraud.
1. You Can Torture Data Until It Confesses To Anything You Want
Which is precisely what some people are doing to the Georgia vote counts from 2020 election. It certainly piqued my interest, as official data is readily available from the State's website. What does it say?
2. For starters, Georgia has some unique characteristics in this election that lend themselves to an interesting bit of analysis that is either not possible or not easily doable for any other state. In addition to the President, both State Senators were also on the ballot in GA.
3. And that allows each party's senate candidate to be used as a control data sent against that party's presidential candidate for each voting channel (in-person versus mail-in) to spot any glaring statistical anomalies/impossibilities in voting that might suggest fraud.
I know. I know. It's not over yet. But play along, if you care to indulge in a bit of scenario forecasting. This is nothing more than reading tea leaves. Treat it as such.
Of course the fraud investigations must continue, with or without Trump.
2. This thread is about Donald Trump, not about President Trump. I have a great deal of respect and gratitude for President Trump for what he has accomplished for the nation over the last four years. I respect what he did, but not always what he says, and I have always said so.
3. So what comes next. At this point I think Trump knows he has lost the election in the sense that the announced result will not be overturned realistically, no matter what happens between now and January 20, 2021.
2. It's become a favorite retort of many liberals that "there is no evidence of widespread fraud." First of all, nobody is alleging 'widespread fraud.' That is a media concoction. Republicans are alleging highly 'targeted fraud' in specific cities in specific states.
3. On election night, when President Trump was leading in swing states, it was clear where the fraudsters needed to strike surgically to overturn the election. Where is the need for 'widespread fraud' when you have the tools and people in place to surgically do what is needed?