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Do Not Buy Bad Arguments about Election Fraud. Most of the theories of election misconduct, even if proven, would not change the vote totals enough to overturn the outcome.
National Review ^ | November 11, 2020 | Dan McLaughlin

Posted on 11/11/2020 1:37:40 PM PST by karpov

There’s a lot going around right now among disappointed Republicans about fraudulent or illegal behavior by Democrats in the 2020 election. Donald Trump and his most vocal supporters claim that the election was stolen. There is a disconnect here: Most of the theories of election misconduct, even if proven, would not change the vote totals enough to overturn the outcome. That does not mean that Republicans and conservatives should roll over and do nothing, but we should temper our expectations and not go chasing rumors and conspiracy theories without evidence. The goal should be to unearth genuine misconduct, expose it to the sunlight, and prevent its repetition.

Seven states were decided by less than three percentage points. Biden leads the counted votes in six of them (the other being North Carolina). Trump would need to flip 37 electoral votes in order to force an Electoral College tie, or 38 in order to be declared the winner. That means three states — four if Nevada is one and Pennsylvania isn’t. There is no precedent for anything like this, requiring a shift of over 47,000 votes to change the outcomes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin and send the election to the House, or over 74,000 to flip Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. The margin in Michigan alone is a daunting 146,137 votes, a far cry from the 537-vote margin in Florida in 2000.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: danmclaughlin; doestrumpknow; ga; giulianidisagrees; nationalreview; nevertrumper; pearls; phonetrumpplease; somuchwinning
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To: Sooth2222

” There is infinitely more evidence of vote fraud than there ever was of RUSSIA!!!!!!

Funny you should mention that, if I were in another country, I’d throw any “election monitors” from the US out on their asses at this point.


61 posted on 11/11/2020 2:15:45 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.l)
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To: karpov

It must pay very well to be the straw man opposition to the Marxist/Globalist revolutionaries.


62 posted on 11/11/2020 2:18:30 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: karpov
Count on National Review RINO Cucks to lead the Surrender Monkeys.


63 posted on 11/11/2020 2:19:54 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov

64 posted on 11/11/2020 2:20:05 PM PST by Bobalu ("You can't serve papers on a rat, Baby Sister. You gotta kill him or let him be." --Rooster Cogburn)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Well, I think this is a question we need to be asking people on social media, local-level “news reporters”, anyone we hear saying that there was not enough fraud to change the results.

Just ask them to give it some thought. Like, what if your daughter’s husband only cheats on her 2 nights a week, but he’s home for the other 5. Is this okay? How much is okay, when integrity issues are under consideration?

Just my 2 cents, to no one in particular.


65 posted on 11/11/2020 2:20:07 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: Cecily

lol


66 posted on 11/11/2020 2:20:24 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: karpov

F them. We have enough now to know it was stolen. Have the State Legislatures make the vote now. Let the RATs feel what it’s like to be cheated for once.


67 posted on 11/11/2020 2:29:28 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong!)
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To: karpov
Most of the theories of election misconduct, even if proven, would not change the vote totals enough to overturn the outcome.

That's probably true. I don't we'll ever be able to PROVE enough fraud to overturn the election because the fraudulent votes are too mixed in with the valid votes.

Therefore, the state legislatures should recognize there was widespread tainting of the votes and directly appoint their Electoral College voters per Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

68 posted on 11/11/2020 2:30:47 PM PST by libertylover (Election 2020: Make America Great Again or Burn it to the Ground. Choose one. Voter fraud is treason)
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To: karpov

Another Never-Trump surrender monkey. In PA, there may be legal grounds for throwing out -all- the mail-in ballots.


69 posted on 11/11/2020 2:33:04 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Ann Archy

You have No idea how many fraudulent votes were cast in your state...


You are right, I don’t. But we do have voter ID, we do not have same day registration, and when I voted early (technically absentee) my voter ID was checked against the registrar’s list and my signature was checked against the one on file. No doubt there were some, but nowhere near enough. The two democrats running for Congress in K.C. and St.L. easily won their election, including the newest member of the ‘squad’, but elsewhere the Republicans won handily.


70 posted on 11/11/2020 2:36:01 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: karpov

Thats right America... DON’T BUY IT!!! America’s Major news organizations have gone on their spotless record to convince you that Biden Won!

The LONGER you Go (liberal democrats) believing that Joe won, the MADDER you are going to be when the rug is pulled out from under your feet!

I cannot wait!

Because I for one will be laughing, and jeering, and MOCKING you until I literally get SICK of wiping and smearing your idiotic chicanery back in your face!

I suspect it will take me a LONG time to gloat to the point where my anger and frustration will be avenged.
Your calls for unity make me SICK!... and I will make sure to avail myself of every opportunity to shove THOSE words right back up your ass!


71 posted on 11/11/2020 2:36:19 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: NEMDF

[[[Here is my question: What is the acceptable amount of voter fraud? When is it too much?]]]

When the Democrat candidate loses.


72 posted on 11/11/2020 2:38:05 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: Bobalu

Hilarious!


73 posted on 11/11/2020 2:38:27 PM PST by Golden Eagle (List of Cable News Alternatives ----> http://freerepublic.com/~goldeneagle/ <----)
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To: karpov

The voting machines are switching votes by the thousands not including the other fraud. They re adding hundreds of thousands of votes to Biden where ever they want. He lost by millions of votes.


74 posted on 11/11/2020 2:38:44 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: karpov

The National Review turned traitor long ago.

William F Buckley would have skewered the idiots who run it now with his sharp tongue.

So what is the purpose of repeating this crap? Who gives a damn what they say.
They are just like FOX


75 posted on 11/11/2020 2:38:48 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: karpov

Thanks, I’ll just buy the good arguments instead.


76 posted on 11/11/2020 2:39:57 PM PST by MikeyB806
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To: Hildy
National Disgrace.
77 posted on 11/11/2020 2:40:30 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: karpov
There is no precedent for anything like this...

Because this has never happened before it cannot happen now. WOW! Talk about a logical fallacy. If this passes for brilliant thinking justifying a huge salary NR should be paying me millions!

78 posted on 11/11/2020 2:41:25 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: karpov

National Review Announces Itself as Part of the Coup Attempt.

That’s the headline, right there.


79 posted on 11/11/2020 2:41:34 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: karpov

The MSM speaks again.

They are trying to create a Dark Age.


80 posted on 11/11/2020 2:41:36 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (I did not leave my country, my country left me)
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