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Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by ciarannolan »

CapricornNoble wrote: post #164
IAmEveryone wrote: post #122

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People have been voting by mail for decades, in the US and many other democracies. There haven't been any incidents. And, yes, I am convinced wide-scale fraud would be almost impossible to hide: you can't pull off any fraud without, for example, many voters turning up at polling places even though they have been mailed a ballot. Or people noticing the voter rolls show them having voted when they didn't. Or whatever s…

>>in the complete absence of any actual fraud happening Which of these examples of election fraud are...not examples of voter fraud? https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/datab...

So 0.000001% of votes were fraudulent if you take the Heritage Foundation's analysis as fact (1,285 votes fraudulent out of 119,000,000 who voted in 2016).

Does 0.000001% fraud qualify as a problem in any reasonable sense?

Republicans' electoral strategy is basically "the less people vote, the better". Is that good for democracy? Is that just?

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by sfj »

fzeroracer wrote: post #145
2019-nCoV wrote: post #136

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Has there been a more polarising American politician than Trump in living memory? Voter fraud is not a constant. It is completely dynamic. Just his Tweet completely changes reality. Now, if it does proceed, we'll see increased scrutiny of mail-in voting, which in turn would reduce fraud. This would then be cited by opponents as another counter-example, when in reality the increased scrutiny was the catalyst.

This isn't what I was asking. You're changing the argument now to try and claim that Trump's tweets would have increased scrutiny on mail-in voting, when in reality most states have had mail-in voting before the Trump presidency and has seen low levels of voter fraud. You're trying to do a post-hoc justification in attempt to rationalize Trump's tweets rather than answer my argument. I'll ask you again: Where's the v…

How do we know how much fraud there is? How much fraud were we aware of at Enron until they went bust?

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by disposekinetics »

pedroma wrote: post #61
disposekinetics wrote: post #29

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Who asked for twitter to be our fact checker? I don't want any tech company fact checking for me.

Whoosh

It's simply not something I want as part of my feed. Be it a politician I loathe or tolerate.

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Post by happytoexplain »

[deleted] wrote: post #185
Barrin92 wrote: post #3

If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.

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Why don't you care about letting Trump slide, but you do care about letting anti-white racists slide?

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by guevara »

happytoexplain wrote: post #187
[deleted] wrote: post #185

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Why don't you care about letting Trump slide, but you do care about letting anti-white racists slide?

I find his Tweets entertaining and I get a good laugh out of them. As for the anti-white thing, I'm just making an observation about something I found interesting.

I legitimately want to know what's up with Twitter allowing these comments. I find it weird cause it'd go without saying that hating any other minority would land you a ban or suspension.

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by 2019-nCoV »

> Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post....

> ....Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!

Whelp, it was fun while it lasted.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12654275381401886...

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Post by SauciestGNU »

blhack wrote: post #84
tylerhou wrote: post #56

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I think it's reasonable to wonder if mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud, but there is not a lot of evidence that such fraud is widespread. In particular, Trump's tweet is completely off base with what election experts already know about voter fraud. > Now we're expecting that states will radically alter their voting system, in 5 months, and that it won't be vulnerable to interference? Are mail in ballots for ev…

>Are mail in ballots for everyone really a "radical alteration" of their voting system? Local governments already have the capacity to send and receive thousands of pieces of mail, and the method of counting ballots is the exact same. How would you set up this system if you were tasked with it?

Every state already has absentee voting. I would expect that the system will follow the same procedures as already exist for absentee voting, hiring more clerk and postal staff as necessary.
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