• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      A third of the eligible voters didn’t vote. If they had, this tiny marginal bullshit wouldn’t matter.

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        5 months ago

        Assuming that the third would be biased toward one candidate rather than being probably just as evenly divided as those that did vote.

        We know the restrictive voting laws were biased. We do not know that the “didn’t bother to vote” has the same bias.

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        5 months ago

        Beyond the statistical realities that Saleh mention, the general point about drop-off is also weird.

        It implies that the GOP cheated, but declined to cheat in down ballot. This seems odd, if they had the will and capability to just change the votes, why would they skip the down ballot elections? Further another similar site pointed out the drop-off was uneven, that it was suspiciously higher in Montana than Michigan. To imply the GOP cheated more in Montana? When your theory indicates a bigger effort to cheat in a safe state than a swing state, then there’s something going on.

        The drop-off effect is easily explained by the reality that people weren’t voting for a Republican or a Democrat, they were voting for or against Trump. That mindset is wholly separate from Republican v. Democrat. It’s almost an Apples v. Oranges to try to compare a race with Trump to it to any other race (which is why the GOP is desperate to run him again, because even they don’t understand how he engages the base and he is a useful idiot).

        I’m glad to see it investigated and I wish that the voting populace didn’t do what they did (and accept that without the suppression, the results might have gone the other way). However I don’t think fraud has been proven in any significant degree.

        Perhaps the democrats should emphasize vote in person on election day if at all possible, and mail-in is a last resort, rather than saying “voting is easy, just mail it in”. It’s obvious that they are having great success in discarding legitimate mail-in ballots the way they see fit.