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Fox News Is Sued by Election Technology Company for over $2.7B

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#81
post #52

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I thought it was Venezuela?

Same thing, as far as conspiracy theorists are concerned.

That is a critically important point. Their willingness to conflate entities that are distinct to other people gives them a broken worldview that is very hard to understand.

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#82
post #38

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How will they know the source code they're reading is what's on the machines? An important part of elections is for people to understand and trust the process. Paper is easy to understand; you and a bunch of your neighbors counting paper votes is easy to trust. Maybe mix in a machine to speed up the process that is also verified by hand. Yet I can't help but think nothing will convince those who so easily believe in…

The thing that really keeps elections secure, practically, is adversarial observers. If you want people to have faith in the election, this is the system to explain, and demonstrate. You can even go be an observer if you like.

I think you fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the conspiracy theorist mind. Observers for Trump still lied about fraud after being granted tons of audit/observation access.

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#83
post #70

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So did Rachel Maddow devote hours and hours of air time repeating her conspiracy theory over and over and bring on multiple supposed experts to also reassert the claim even after it was debunked? Or did she say it one time?

>>So did Rachel Maddow devote hours and hours of air time repeating her conspiracy theory over and over and bring on multiple supposed experts to also reassert the claim even after it was debunked? Yes, literally. https://theintercept.com/2017/04/12/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-see...

What I am willing to believe from a researching like Maddow is quite a different set of conclusions than what I think could be proven in court. Sources, evidence standards, procedures, etc. all designed to preserve rights are not the same environment as academic investigation.

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#84

The opening of suit is priceless. “The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable. Defendants have always known these facts. They knew Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 U.S. election. They knew the election…

> Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable.

Fascinating! I look forward to someone demonstrating these facts.

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#85

The opening of suit is priceless. “The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable. Defendants have always known these facts. They knew Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 U.S. election. They knew the election…

> Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable. Fascinating! I look forward to someone demonstrating these facts.

Do you believe all American elections are most likely stolen unless someone presents you with facts that satisfy you? Trump, Obama, Bush, all the result of rigged elections too? What could ever satisfy you that you know, without a doubt, how millions of Americans voted?

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#86
post #7

To all the naysayers, is there any other way to hold fox accountable for all the propaganda and division that they have down for that 5 years at least? And to hold rupert murdoch accountable?

Cancel your cable TV subscription.

Sadly, this is the most effective way. Fox News Channel is generally included in most basic cable packages, so unless you can find a cable package that only includes channels you'd receive with an antenna, part of your cable bill will go to FNC.

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#87

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> Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable. Fascinating! I look forward to someone demonstrating these facts.

Do you believe all American elections are most likely stolen unless someone presents you with facts that satisfy you? Trump, Obama, Bush, all the result of rigged elections too? What could ever satisfy you that you know, without a doubt, how millions of Americans voted?

> Do you believe all American elections are most likely stolen unless someone presents you with facts that satisfy you?

No, not all elections.

> Trump, Obama, Bush, all the result of rigged elections too?

Perhaps, how would one know? Are you at all aware of the allegations about Bush 00 and 04?

> What could ever satisfy you that you know, without a doubt, how millions of Americans voted?

The results of a system that was designed to be verifiably resistant towards fraud would go a long way towards removing reasonable doubt.

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#88
post #54

And this right here is why so many people have been dead against voting machines. Even if you think you understand them, most voters can't. Most voters have no idea what to look for to see signs of fraud. Ballot papers are understood by everyone. Just about every voter knows when they're seeing something happen with ballot papers that is suspect. Just about every voter knows when there really isn't anything remotely…

The whole reason we have electronic voting is voters didn't do so great in the 2000 election, either, purely with paper ballots. They didn't punch holes correctly, or bubble in dots properly. A badly-designed paper ballot may have confused just enough voters in just the right place to swing the entire election.

So ballot papers really aren't understood by everyone. That 2000 election is still dubious. It didn't turn into the dumpster fire that this one did, because the personalities involved didn't stoke it that way.

In 2020 there was no way for it to end well. There would have been equal arguments over paper ballots. They shot out hundreds of equally ludicrous conspiracy theories, not one of which was accepted by a court. There were thousands of other contests being decided, and all of them somehow managed to be run without controversy.

There was no way for justice to be seen to be done, and any arguments for or against electronic voting are moot.

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#89

The opening of suit is priceless. “The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable. Defendants have always known these facts. They knew Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 U.S. election. They knew the election…

It’s amusing that my post was downvoted by what seem to be Trump supporters even when I did not comment on the politics, just noting that the opening of the suit was something unique and quite funny in the context of normal briefs.

You got me, I am a secret member of the deep state.

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#90
post #76
post #45

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Can you give an example of what you would characterize as "smears against people who call for entirely reasonable verification"? And while you're at it, who you consider a "top-tier expert"? It seems to me that the people getting served with lawsuits weren't just concerned about vulnerabilities and calling for verification, they were outright claiming that the election was stolen. And stating made-up ideas about how…

> who you consider a "top-tier expert"? The authors: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2027/voting-village-repor...

Fair enough, I agree those are experts.

Have they been hit with lawsuits or smears? Are they alleging that the attacks they demonstrated were actually used in this election?

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