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“caused by a vendor uploading an update to their election machines the night before”
Oh boy.
I was going to post earlier that a ‘glitch’ i.e. ‘bug’ in software doesn’t cause an orderly re-assignment of 6k ballots to the opponent. Software bugs cause things normally to do something chaotic like show error messages or totally break. Rarely does it cause something ‘orderly and neatly wrong’ to happen - unless it’s by design or wasn’t QA’d at all.
For example, when your printer drivers are f’d up ... what happens is, your printer doesn’t work, won’t print. When was the last time your printer broke and the symptom was that it printed red where blue should have been? That would be an orderly but wrong thing. 99 out 100 times a bug causes a thing to simply not work or get errors or get hung up. That’s because disturbances to form are usually chaos ... not ‘wrong but orderly.’ It’s why most mutations in species cause the mutant to die pretty quickly.
It COULD happen, but doesn’t pass the smell test. It certainly doesn’t pass the smell test if the pattern looks more like an algorithm’s behavior, INCLUDING something made to look random to mask it but orderly in the expression of each random individual event.
I REALLY REALLY hope Trump’s popularity and the extra pressure he put on the dems by his end of campaign marathon push put so much pressure on them to commit more fraud than they wanted, quickly, hence more RISKY fraud (day-before updates to software?) ... that he forced them to make a mistake, i.e. get greedy ... like a bank robber lingering in the vault too long because he realized he needed 10 million instead of 500K.
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An excellent and well-thought out post. I sure hope you’re right!
Me too. Hard to know whether the confidence Trump's campaign projects is merely PR (still smart to do - buying time and keeping support is time for finding evidence or whistle blowers to come forward while delaying the fake pressure to act like a good sport) ... or whether they privately know there is a solid legal path for them based on clear evidence of fraud and/or clearly wrongly counted ballots that will be clearly reversed or recounted ... and that assumes they can separate the fraudulent from the legitimate.
I wish I knew what the Trump campaign knows. We all know there was fraud ... but I mean ... what they know that can get the blessing of judges. We have a good SCOTUS, at least 5 of which know this is bogus and also care that it's bogus, but even knowing that, they can't pull their legal triggers until they see the whites of the eyes of legal/constitutional wrongdoing.
And then if the campaign can make the case convincingly, but still there is no legal remedy, will the swing state legislatures who are also on our side act if they need to?
We'll see ... and we'll deal with the outcome. Nothing you don't already know :-)