Posted on 10/23/2024 4:12:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The former president and his closest allies are returning to debunked claims about hacked machines as they prepare to contest the vote next month.
It has been nearly four years since a parade of judges dismissed wild claims from Donald J. Trump and his associates about hacked election machines and a year and a half since a leading machine company obtained a $787.5 million settlement from Fox News over the debunked conspiracy theories.
But Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign and his closest allies are again trotting out the theories as part of a late-campaign strategy to assert that this year’s election is rigged — although this time Mr. Trump’s campaign appears to be largely acting behind the scenes.
The theories are rampant on social media and widely embraced by activists. They have frequently shown up in the blitz of lawsuits that Republicans have filed in the run-up to the election, including a Georgia lawsuit that a judge dismissed this month, calling the security concerns about voting machines raised in the suit “purely hypothetical.”
Mr. Trump’s name was not on the suit, nor was the Republican National Committee’s. But text messages reviewed by The New York Times suggest that the former president’s top aides were behind it.
The lawsuit was filed by a county Republican Party only after the state Republican Party in Georgia refused, despite requests from “Trump inner circle/high up in RNC,” Alex B. Kaufman, the state party’s general counsel, wrote in a text to another Republican official last month.
“We had immense pressure from above and below to bring this, and said absolutely not,” he added in another message.
Josh McKoon, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, denied that the Republican National Committee or the Trump team had asked the state party to file the lawsuit.
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And as we know, virtually none of the right-wing conspiracy theories of the past few years that were trumpeted by the NYT clown show have turned out to be correct. /s
Journalism majors, when you cannot even get into Studies majors.
If the The NYT’s is telling me that vote fraud does not exist. Then it must be true. /sarc
I call them "failed English majors", who aren't even good enough at their own language to get a sinecure as an English professor.
I once read somewhere that most journalism majors were the C and D students in school.
BS.
Truth = Conspiracy
What does the evidence say?
Oh, you deleted it?
Everything the leftist “journalists” don’t like is called a “conspiracy theory”.
In an interesting coincidence everything the CIA does not like is called a “conspiracy theory”.
If you tie those two together that is one of those dangerous conspiracy theories.
:-)
The Arc of Validation for voter fraud:
1. “Voter fraud doesn’t happen, it’s a right-wing conspiracy theory.”
2. “Voter fraud happens, but not to enough of a degree to affect the outcome of elections.”
3. “Voter fraud is happening, here’s 10 reasons why it’s a good thing...”
4 “If you don’t support voter fraud you’re racist”
Dem headfake. Make a big deal of pubs claiming machine fraud while getting their business done the old fashioned way - with fake paper ballots.
... und a woman heter....
Hopefully Tina Peters will be pardoned by Trump on Day One.
This is very odd. This information from the New York Times is reported as if it has any truth to it. New York Times historically has only had a few things correct in the history of their yellow rag. I believe that is most of the words in the crossword puzzle. The employees of New York Times Are Integrity free and are associated. Nothing has changed that will always be the case. Even using the so-called newspaper as a bottom filler in a bird cage could harm the birds. Be cautious.
The President can’t pardon state crimes, only federal crimes.
a parade of judges did not dismiss wild claims from Donald J. Trump, they ruled he had no standing to sue
So it should be fine if we audit the machine firmware and mirror it, block all network ports, and run Wi-Fi jammers in every polling place.
I finished all my down ballot choices on candidates and referendums, then went back LAST...... and made my presidential choice. It showed it was a valid selection this time. I asked again, "Why?" And she said " WE DONT CONFIGURE THE SCREENS".
Not good folks. My wife had the exact same problem in her ballot selections.
Nothing was “debunked.” No judge was brave enough to hear a suit alleging voter fraud and fell back on the old canard of “lack of standing.” If a judge had heard one of the suits, I feel confident that it would have revealed rampant voter fraud.
You have drawn up a statement and had her sign and date it. We all should do that. Document, document, document.
^should...
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