Thread by @QOrigins

Summing up this story from @schotthappens:

1. Stolen-election cranks in Utah, some of them armed, are going door to door to record people without their consent while they ask questions about the election

2. This is part of a national effort. 🙃 read it:

sltrib.com/news/politics/…

In particular, read far enough to hit the quotes by @holden, explaining how “election fraud affidavits” work as a strategy for the Stop the Steal crowd— they let you take low-quality “evidence,” like (real example!) “I saw a mixed-race couple mail a large item while laughing”…

and turn it into an “affidavit” which the Stop the Steal crowd can cite as “evidence of voter fraud” through the simple expedient of just… writing the bullshit down and getting the author and a notary to sign it.

After that, it sounds all official & serious: ooh, an affidavit!

I mean, @holden explains it much better than I do.

But this is how you get from hundreds of cases of “I, an untrained observer who was sure fraud was afoot, saw something I don’t understand. I never ASKED election officials to explain what the deal was bc they’re all in on it”…

to hundreds of “affidavits of people who witnessed election fraud.”

You can debunk them in two minutes flat — e.g. people saying “they ran the same batch of ballots through the counting machine several times!” are unaware that *you’re supposed to* if it can’t read a ballot…

And you just error out the last reading before you run them again; moreover, if you FAILED to error out the last run of ballots, that would show up when you were preparing the final numbers because you’d have more votes than actual ballots, at which point you’d redo the count.

UH, ANYWAY, this thread wasn’t supposed to be “The God, I Hate The Bullshit-Affidavit Strategy Hour” — it SHOULD be about the “US Election Integrity Project” and ITS bullshit — but that info is actually in the article, so go read it! Shoo! Shoo!

P.S. If you live anywhere near Salt Lake City, subscribe to the paper. It’s a nonprofit and you should support your local journalists, ESPECIALLY because the alternative is ::gestures at All Of The Bullshit::