Interesting read about how those who questioned election results in 2000 (when Bush won by 537 votes > a machine deleted 16K Gore votes & Rs blocked the recount) & 04 (When Rs re-routed Ohio’s results 2 Smartech) have reacted 2 Trump screaming “rigged!” 1/ politico.com/news/magazine/…
The 16k vote deletion was corrected before certification. But there never was a statewide recount. The Florida Supreme Court ordered one, but the US Supreme Court shut it down. 2/
This piece discusses the 16k deleted Gore votes in Volusia county and how the explanation—a corrupted memory card—made no sense. 3/ nytimes.com/2018/09/26/mag…
4/ Unlike the Antrim Michigan situation in 2020, where a Republican clerk explained how her own error caused a problem, a plausible explanation was never provided for the Volusia error in 2004.
5/ From the NYT about 2000: “[A] faulty memory card shld produce an onscreen error message or cause a computer to lock up, not alter votes in one race while leaving others untouched. And what kind of faulty card deleted votes only 4 Gore, while adding votes to other candidates?” 
6/ The re-routing of Ohio’s 2004 results to Smartech in TN is discussed in this iconic piece by Victoria Collier in Harper’s. harpers.org/archive/2012/1…
7/ Explanation from the Republican county clerk in Antrim Michigan of what went wrong there in 2020. record-eagle.com/news/disinform…
8/ “Recording Reveals ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys [and the CNP] Working with State Legislators to Question Validity of Election” — in February, long before the election took place. By @JamieMCorey documented.net/2020/10/newly-…
Trump’s election-fraud claims have caused a rift in the election-integrity community bc some recognize that Trump is a serial liar who never acts in good faith, whereas others think all election-fraud claims shld be given = consideration regardless of context or credibility. 9/
Example of the rift, though as far as I know, Bev hasn’t tried to help Trump spread election integrity nonsense. She’s done more for election integrity than most — myself included — by far. Some have actually tried to help Trump spread lies. 10/
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