That’s exactly my point they NOTICED and no way you are getting 1000 fraudulent votes due to machines being miscalibrated.
As to you other reasons, show me the evidence... This isn’t NYC, and this district doesn’t include the urban core of Pittsburgh...
This election was lost by the GOP engaging in gross incompetence, not by fraud. This is a race that should have never been close. Conspiracy theories about election fraud costing it with no evidence is just that.
IT was OBVIOUS this race was going to be far closer than it ever should be, and that D winning was a possibility to anyone watching.. because the messaging was absolutely all wrong for the district and the race.
Trying to find a boogieman to blame is silly, the blame is squarely on the GOP ecosystem refusing to accept, understand or even acknowledge 2016. Pure and simple.
R vote totals for the distrct were more than 50,000 below where they were in 2014, the last off year election for the district, and that was a year the R ran unopposed.... You had nearly 1/3 less R votes show up... you want to know why you lost? It wasn’t fraud.. it was that you didn’t get your side to show up.. period. You fed red meat to the rabid base and ignored everyone else, you delivered a message never addressed anyone else.
Want to know why you lost, your messaging was terrible .. FCS, you had the R running around in the last 2 weeks of the election saying “I was Trump before Trump” You think that’s going to get those no traditional voters to show up????? You think a campaign that effectively was THE OTHER GUY IS EVIL, is going to do that???? Nope....
This race was lost by messaging, not fraud. Clinging to this conspiracy theory with no evidence is nonsensical. YOu should be angry at the GOP ecosphere for refusing to understand the fundamental realities of what they needed to do in this race.
50,000+ votes didn’t disappear do to fraud, they didn’t show up because you gave them no reason to.
But no one investigates it.
And then the excuse is - there's no evidence that it occurred.
When elections are this close, it's crucial that we have a transparent and trustworthy process. We don't.
Again, that's not to diminish your point on GOP messaging.