OAN Finally Admits ‘No Widespread Voter Fraud’ After Settling Defamation Suit

Yahoo/Daily Beast ^ | 5/9/2022 | William Vaillancourt

[semimojo]

The right-wing cable network One America News Network on Monday ran a pre-recorded 30-second segment acknowledging that there was “no widespread voter fraud” by Georgia election workers in the 2020 presidential election. The segment appears to be part of a recent settlement relating to a defamation lawsuit brought against the network by two such workers.

The segment notes that an investigation by state officials into unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud made by ex-President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani turned up nothing. “The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct,” a narrator states.

[Maris Crane]

We need a few good, strong, effective republicans.

I used to think this would be uncovered and the truth found out.

I guess I was expecting too much.

[FLT-bird]

Misleading headline. They left out the “Widespread” and “by Georgia Election Workers” part.

We can argue over what constitutes “widespread”. It doesn’t take that many who are dirty to run through a bunch of invalid ballots. So an election can clearly be stolen and yet not that many of the poll workers needed to be corrupt in order for that to be true. That’s especially so in an election decided by 10,000 ballots.

Also, election workers could be completely on the up and up and yet an election could still be tainted by massive fraud - as 2,000 Mules amply demonstrates. The massive fraud operation uncovered with irrefutable evidence shown in that documentary did not require the participation of any poll workers.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

In America 2.0 if you report that an election was stolen you have to pay millions of dollars to the people that stole it.

[The Duke]

It sure is good to know that the political party of lies, criminality, and thuggery would not engage in vote fraud. My faith in communist subversives is restored.

[maddog55]

Didn’t have to be widespread, just highly concentrated in a few heavily populated areas.

[WWG1WWA]

Ok, whose kid did they grab? Inquiring minds want to know.

[shadowlands1960]

They barked up the wrong tree, focusing on voting machines instead of drop boxes and absentees.

I've believed that all along. In fact I think the 'Hammer and Scorecard' story was dropped just to lead the hounds on a false trail. Those stories wore magnified with the 'kraken' and whatnot, while ballot stuffing, which is how the election was actually stolen, was ignored.

[alstewartfan]

Exactly. Trump had very bad post-election advice.

[Vaduz]

The thing about lawsuits if the lawyers can’t win they drag the case out until your money is gone it’s why it’s cheaper to settle.
Loophole are a lawyers specialty

[Observator]

An admission under duress is never to be believed, it isn’t a sincere admission.

What kind of duress are you implying? Because the simple fact here is that OAN lost the case, paid the GA election workers a "reasonable amount" and posted a retraction.