i could actually see an argument that trump committed no crimes

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What I said in full was

I was just pointing out a fact. You were asking people on an Internet forum to cite the crimes that have been alleged, when you could easily read and interpret the indictment documents, especially considering your educational background.

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but if he had the authority to take or keep the documents in the first place
he didn't. He took the documents after he lost the election. He did not have a right to take them. 
Cite the law(s) that clearly articulate that a sitting US President doesn't have authoritative access to presidential records during his tenure. And acquiring them after losing the election, while still being the US President, isn't a legal argument. It's a subjective emotive one. Completely baseless. 

then obstruction is trying to find something with no underlying basis to it.
also untrue. Even if he had the right to take them (which he didn't), once he was told he had to give them back (because he was no longer president and wasn't allowed to have them) then refusing to give them back was illegal. 
Again, cite the law(s) that clearly articulate that a former US President has no legal authority to be in temporary possession of presidential records from his tenure in the White House. 

I look forward to hearing about your performance defending Trump in court!

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2) the fake electors are illegal no matter what trump's mental state is.
Was it illegal in the 1960 election when Hawaii's democrat electors were sent?



There is a strict process for how elections work.
Yes but all rules are irrelevant if you say the word "covid emergency".


Trying to bypass it and add fake electors to illegally hold onto power is illegal, even if you think you are doing the right thing.
The PA mass mail in votes were unconstitutional, but the judges in PA didn't care. That means the PA electors were illegal, no?


We also know that trump and his team hired people to try to find evidence of fraud and the report they got back said there wasn't any. So he knew there wasn't any fraud, and apparently that can be proven.
It most certainly cannot because the reason the sham election was a sham is because fraud can't be ruled out. It was a systematic failure that no private investigator could overcome.


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The PA mass mail in votes were unconstitutional,
That a lie. The Pennsylvania legislature agreed to the new vote by mail system.


Last month the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the changes passed by the legislature.

As usual you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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[IwantRooseveltagain] The Pennsylvania legislature agreed to the new vote by mail system.
Assuming that's true (which is only for the sake of argument), a constitution must be amended by process. The legislature can't simply pass laws that violate the constitution.


Last month the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the changes passed by the legislature.
As irrelevant as if the US supreme court ruled that the right to be secure in one's possessions (4th amendment) meant abortion is unconstitutional.
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Assuming that's true (which is only for the sake of argument), a constitution must be amended by process. The legislature can't simply pass laws that violate the constitution.
Assuming? All you have to do is google it and read. In the Information Age, ignorance is a choice.

The Republicans changed the voting laws. It was only because Trump lost that they reversed themselves. And I seriously doubt you have a working knowledge of the Pennsylvania Constitution and what it says about voting. You are just whining 

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As irrelevant as if the US supreme court ruled that the right to be secure in one's possessions (4th amendment) meant abortion is unconstitutional.
You can’t even get history correct. Abortion rights were guaranteed in Roe v Wade under privacy 

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It most certainly cannot because the reason the sham election was a sham is because fraud can't be ruled out.
That is a ridiculous statement.

Fraud can be ruled out
Fraud was ruled out
The only Fraud that took place was by Trump and his allies who tried to overturn the election 

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Was it illegal in the 1960 election when Hawaii's democrat electors were sent?
because a recount found the original results to be incorrect. There was never any evidence presented that the results in these states were incorrect, much less a recount. And yet trump and his allies tried to convince the states to send fake electors even though they had lost. That is illegal. 

There is a strict process for how elections work.
Yes but all rules are irrelevant if you say the word "covid emergency".
you didn't make any sort of argument here. Just a vague, meaningless statement.

The PA mass mail in votes were unconstitutional, but the judges in PA didn't care. That means the PA electors were illegal, no?
Please be more specific. I'm not sure what you are referring to. could you provide a reference?

We also know that trump and his team hired people to try to find evidence of fraud and the report they got back said there wasn't any. So he knew there wasn't any fraud, and apparently that can be proven.
It most certainly cannot because the reason the sham election was a sham is because fraud can't be ruled out. It was a systematic failure that no private investigator could overcome.
Fraud can never be 100% ruled out. Since no one has perfect knowledge, there is always some tiny chance that there is some secret fraud we don't know about. But they went to court with their allegations and could not find or produce any evidence of fraud. This has been the most reviewed and examined election in history and no one has managed to find any fraud.

Bottom line is trump had people investigate and they found no evidence of widespread fraud. He then willfully ignored all the available information, insisted their was fraud and tried to push through fake electors to steal the election.

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Why does ADreamofLiberty want a Slovenian sex worker as First Lady? Wouldn't an American born Lawyer be better?
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Slovenia-born Melania Trump is the second-ever First Lady of the United States to be born outside of the United States. London-born Louisa Adams, wife of sixth U.S. president John Quincy Adams, was the first.

Make Slovenia Great Again!
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[IwantRooseveltagain] And I seriously doubt you have a working knowledge of the Pennsylvania Constitution and what it says about voting.
Your ignorance is a choice remember?


As irrelevant as if the US supreme court ruled that the right to be secure in one's possessions (4th amendment) meant abortion is unconstitutional.
[IwantRooseveltagain] You can’t even get history correct. Abortion rights were guaranteed in Roe v Wade under privacy 
It's impossible to reach your potential as a homo sapiens sapien if you refuse to use your imagination.

Imagine for instance that Roe v Wade was overturned because it was a ridiculous interpretation? Now imagine that what a bunch of people in black robes happen to want to believe has no bearing on what the document says.


[IwantRooseveltagain] Fraud can be ruled out
Fraud was ruled out
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Was it illegal in the 1960 election when Hawaii's democrat electors were sent?
because a recount found the original results to be incorrect.
Not before the electors filled out the documents. Was it illegal from the time they filled out the documents until the court ruling? Until the recount?

If the judge had ruled otherwise would the democratic electors then be criminals?


There was never any evidence presented that the results in these states were incorrect, much less a recount.
There was just as much evidence as could be expected given the likely mechanism of fraud exposed by the illegal changes to election procedure: https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/9073-if-you-believe-the-2020-election-was-rigged-im-calling-your-bluff?page=1&post_number=9


There is a strict process for how elections work.
Yes but all rules are irrelevant if you say the word "covid emergency".
you didn't make any sort of argument here. Just a vague, meaningless statement.
The meaning was pointing out hypocrisy. Whatever (probably insufficient) strictness existed in election procedure was swept aside in the name of covid lockdowns.


The PA mass mail in votes were unconstitutional, but the judges in PA didn't care. That means the PA electors were illegal, no?
Please be more specific. I'm not sure what you are referring to. could you provide a reference?
Article VII
ELECTIONS
Qualifications of Electors
Section 1
Every citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections subject, however, to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the General Assembly may enact.  1. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month.  2. He or she shall have resided in the State ninety (90) days immediately preceding the election.  3. He or she shall have resided in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least sixty (60) days immediately preceding the election, except that if qualified to vote in an election district prior to removal of residence, he or she may, if a resident of Pennsylvania, vote in the election district from which he or she removed his or her residence within sixty (60) days preceding the election.
A judgement: https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/244MD21_1-28-22.pdf?cb=1 (for reference only, judges are far from infallible)


[PA supreme court] To “offer to vote” by ballot, is to present oneself, with proper
qualifications, at the time and place appointed, and to make
manual delivery of the ballot to the officers appointed by law to
receive it. The ballot cannot be sent by mail or express, nor can
it be cast outside of all Pennsylvania election districts and
certified into the county where the voter has his domicil. We
cannot be persuaded that the constitution ever contemplated any
such mode of voting, and we have abundant reason for thinking
that to permit it would break down all the safeguards of honest
suffrage. The constitution meant, rather, that the voter, in
propria persona, should offer his vote in an appropriate election
district, in order that his neighbours might be at hand to establish
his right to vote if it were challenged, or to challenge if it were
doubtful.


We also know that trump and his team hired people to try to find evidence of fraud and the report they got back said there wasn't any. So he knew there wasn't any fraud, and apparently that can be proven.
It most certainly cannot because the reason the sham election was a sham is because fraud can't be ruled out. It was a systematic failure that no private investigator could overcome.
Fraud can never be 100% ruled out.
By sufficient forethought and architecture it can be rendered conditional upon a conspiracy size of similar magnitude as the entire body politic.

An extreme example is cryptocurrency where fraud is possible only if every single participant (miner) participates in the fraud.

Security doesn't require technology either. Look up the Athenian voting laws. It was complicated but if you think it through it rules out any realistic possibility of fraud and all it took was pottery and people.


Since no one has perfect knowledge, there is always some tiny chance that there is some secret fraud we don't know about.
The chance is far from tiny and statistically significant evidence means we do have rough estimates for the quantity of fraud in these cases.


But they went to court with their allegations and could not find or produce any evidence of fraud.
Many who know the elections were fake would respond with "no one looked at the merits" which is indeed true, but I will not respond that way because that is not epistemologicaly correct.

The epistemologicaly correct answer is: It doesn't matter what the courts decided. What matters is what logic operating on available evidence says and where the rational political theory places the burden of proof. Thus I say:

There is and was evidence of fraud. That is above an beyond what is required to call the election fake since a lack of verifiability in many contexts must be treated no differently from fraud.

This has been the most reviewed and examined election in history and no one has managed to find any fraud.
Yes they have. I have personally (not original discovery, following up on publicly available information).

What can't be done is prove quantity, trace perpetrators, or determine the accurate results. Those are false goalposts, and all rational people who value democracy reject their imposition. The system was left vulnerable intentionally so that the guilty could not be found and the level of canvass required to quantify the fraud would never be undertaken.
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Not before the electors filled out the documents. Was it illegal from the time they filled out the documents until the court ruling? Until the recount?
I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to. The info I found says that before the deadline on december 13th, tabulation errors were found and recounts had shown both the democrats and republicans winning the state. There was ongoing litigation to confirm which count was correct. 

There was no such thing in the last election. There was baseless allegations that were getting thrown out of court because they had absolutely no evidence. There was no evidence to suggest that the count was wrong in any of the states they tried to arrange fake electors for. 

There was just as much evidence as could be expected given the likely mechanism of fraud exposed by the illegal changes to election procedure:
soo, 0? With absolutely no evidence, you feel it is justified to try to send fake electors so that the loser becomes the winner?

By sufficient forethought and architecture it can be rendered conditional upon a conspiracy size of similar magnitude as the entire body politic.

An extreme example is cryptocurrency where fraud is possible only if every single participant (miner) participates in the fraud.

Security doesn't require technology either. Look up the Athenian voting laws. It was complicated but if you think it through it rules out any realistic possibility of fraud and all it took was pottery and people.
so your argument is, there is no evidence of fraud, but we should assume there was fraud?

What can't be done is prove quantity, trace perpetrators, or determine the accurate results. Those are false goalposts, and all rational people who value democracy reject their imposition. The system was left vulnerable intentionally so that the guilty could not be found and the level of canvass required to quantify the fraud would never be undertaken.
this is just more of the same. There is no evidence of fraud and you want to use the lack of evidence of fraud, as evidence of fraud. Let me put it this way, would you be making the same arguments if trump won? I mean, the same system would have been used so trump's victory would be the same chance of fraud? By your logic, trump's victory in 2016 was fraudulent too. 
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What I said in full was

I was just pointing out a fact. You were asking people on an Internet forum to cite the crimes that have been alleged, when you could easily read and interpret the indictment documents, especially considering your educational background.


WRONG!!! What I was asking for was the law(s) that said he (Trump) could not do X Y and Z. I did not ask for the alleged law(s) he was being charged with allegedly violating. 


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but if he had the authority to take or keep the documents in the first place
he didn't. He took the documents after he lost the election. He did not have a right to take them. 
Cite the law(s) that clearly articulate that a sitting US President doesn't have authoritative access to presidential records during his tenure. And acquiring them after losing the election, while still being the US President, isn't a legal argument. It's a subjective emotive one. Completely baseless. 

then obstruction is trying to find something with no underlying basis to it.
also untrue. Even if he had the right to take them (which he didn't), once he was told he had to give them back (because he was no longer president and wasn't allowed to have them) then refusing to give them back was illegal. 
Again, cite the law(s) that clearly articulate that a former US President has no legal authority to be in temporary possession of presidential records from his tenure in the White House. 


Reading comprehension matters. 

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My reading comprehension is fine. You are splitting hairs by trying to distinguish two things that are essentially the same, except worded differently.

You asked to cite laws that prohibit Trump from doing certain things because you know what the indictment alleges him to have done in general. You didn't ask to cite laws unrelated to the indictment that would prohibit Trump from doing something. Therefore, you were asking to cite the specific crimes/broken laws that have been alleged, even though they are listed in the indictment documents. Perhaps your reading comprehension needs practice, if you couldn't read the indictment documents.
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Not before the electors filled out the documents. Was it illegal from the time they filled out the documents until the court ruling? Until the recount?
I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to. The info I found says that before the deadline on december 13th, tabulation errors were found and recounts had shown both the democrats and republicans winning the state. There was ongoing litigation to confirm which count was correct. 
The alternate slate of electors filled out the paperwork and sent it to congress before the litigation came to a conclusion. Are you claiming that was illegal?


There was no such thing in the last election. There was baseless allegations that were getting thrown out of court because they had absolutely no evidence.
So whether it is illegal or not depends on your false assumptions about what is baseless?


There was no evidence to suggest that the count was wrong in any of the states they tried to arrange fake electors for. 
They were no more fake than the democrat electors from Hawaii.


There was just as much evidence as could be expected given the likely mechanism of fraud exposed by the illegal changes to election procedure:
soo, 0?
> 0


With absolutely no evidence, you feel it is justified to try to send fake electors so that the loser becomes the winner?
With an phony election system I feel justified in armed counterattacks against anyone who dares to cloak themselves in the US constitution until such time as democracy is restored.

Sending alternate slates of electors or rejecting them (as Pence was asked to do) is to me is less than the least that should have been done.

If Trump had tried to stay in office without a true election that would be exactly as treasonous as what the deep state and fanatical left-tribe did to "win" 2020. Then he should have been shot as the deep state currently deserves to be shot.


so your argument is, there is no evidence of fraud, but we should assume there was fraud?
My claim is that regardless of whether there is evidence of fraud, if the procedure/system is such that fraud would not leave evidence the result must be treated as fraudulent.

This is true in any structure or procedure where trust and verifiability is intrinsic to the inclusion of the consumer.

This is true in science: If a scientist makes a claim, says it's based on data, but refuses to provide experimental procedures and the raw data his conclusion must be treated as fraudulent. Repeatability of observation is intrinsic to the scientific process, and even the slightest hint that the observations cannot be repeated and the 'scientist' is trying to hide this fact is enough to place the whole outside of the realm of science.

This is true in banking: If you deposit money to an investment bank, then when you try to withdraw they claim they invested and lost it; they owe you a fully auditable record of what they did with your money. A bank that cannot be audited must be treated no differently from a scam.

So too in elections: Either fraud must be ruled out by systematic design or the results must be verifiable after the fact (preferably both). If the election can be stolen without leaving proof (evidence) behind it must be treated as fraudulent. It is not sufficient and never has been to write down totals in a dark back rooms and declare yourself a democracy.


There is no evidence of fraud and you want to use the lack of evidence of fraud, as evidence of fraud.
There is both evidence of fraud and proof that the procedure was systematically unable to rule out outcome changing fraud. The inability to rule out significant fraud is sufficient. The treason is amplified and made even more outrageous by the fact that there is evidence of fraud.


Let me put it this way, would you be making the same arguments if trump won? I mean, the same system would have been used so trump's victory would be the same chance of fraud?
If the so called election was conducted in the same manner and I saw the same evidence of fraud then I would not say Trump won because that would be impossible to know.

Would I and so many others learned how the elections are actually carried out had Trump not warned about mass mail in ballots? Probably not.

Do you think Trump is the first one to point out that mass mail in voting circumvents several critical components in the fraud prevention strategy? If you do you're very wrong.

Someone considerably more intelligent than Trump saw this coming. He was convinced and sounded the alarm.


By your logic, trump's victory in 2016 was fraudulent too. By your logic, trump's victory in 2016 was fraudulent too.
There was not mass (often unsolicited) mail in voting in 2016. So no it wouldn't. Also the right tribe in 2016 didn't have the equivalent of TDS. Even now they haven't risen to that level.
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Another person who cares about opinions from an online forum. Just read the indictment documents to understand what is alleged, and if you think it's so clear that Trump is innocent, either don't worry about it or offer your legal services to the former President. I'm sure that would be an honor for you.
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if you think it's so clear that Trump is innocent, either don't worry about it or offer your legal services to the former President. I'm sure that would be an honor for you.
If telling a judge that their authority is arbitrary and they're abusing it regardless won cases I would be a very effective lawyer.

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“Under the circumstances of the Hawaii case, the court-ordered recount created reasonable uncertainty surrounding the vote total, giving the Kennedy electors a justifiable basis for their production of a Kennedy certificate,” the Brookings Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank, concluded in a report late last year.

Brookings and others have argued that was not the case in Georgia.

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Under the circumstances of the Hawaii case, the court-ordered recount created reasonable uncertainty surrounding the vote total, giving the Kennedy electors a justifiable basis for their production of a Kennedy certificate
Was there a court ordered recount when they mailed the state votes?
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The alternate slate of electors filled out the paperwork and sent it to congress before the litigation came to a conclusion. Are you claiming that was illegal?
I'm saying the two cases are extremely different and the comparison is weak. 

So whether it is illegal or not depends on your false assumptions about what is baseless?
It isn't an assumption. There were numerous legal cases and every single one of them found the assumptions to be baseless. It is a legal fact that their claims were baseless.

They were no more fake than the democrat electors from Hawaii.
not true. Because in Hawaii the count showed the democrats had one. No such thing happened in 2020. There was absolutely no evidence of fraud. 

With an phony election system I feel justified in armed counterattacks against anyone who dares to cloak themselves in the US constitution until such time as democracy is restored.
let me get this straight. All available evidence says biden won the election fairly, but you feel justified in using violence in overturning that because you have no evidence of fraud....

If Trump had tried to stay in office without a true election that would be exactly as treasonous
you are literally describing what trump did. He lost an election, then tried to coerce the states to send fake electors that would say he won when he had no evidence of any fraud. He did try to stay in office after losing a true election. 

There is both evidence of fraud
what evidence. there were tons of court cases. tons of investigations. No one has provided any evidence of fraud. And by 

If the so called election was conducted in the same manner and I saw the same evidence of fraud then I would not say Trump won because that would be impossible to know.
all elections are run the same way. So you are saying trump didn't win in 2016 and has never been president?

Do you think Trump is the first one to point out that mass mail in voting circumvents several critical components in the fraud prevention strategy? 
of course not. Lots of losers and crazy people point to that to explain why they are losers and it isn't their fault. But is just as wrong as the others that say that. Mail in voting has been used for a very long time and no significant fraud has been found.


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Bwaahhaaaahaaahaa!!!

Splitting no hairs. 😂 

There is a distinct difference between laws that explicitly say a president cannot do a thing and laws that say what is wrong and is illegal to perform, which is punishable for all. 

Thus your reading comprehension is not fine. 
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both crimes require that trump had to intend to commit the crimes.
  • False. Neither crime requires that Trump had a specific intention.  POTUS calling the Georgia Election Comittee night and telling them they had to come up with 11,000 votes or it would suck to be them is a felony.  A great, big, fucking  chapter in American history felony.   The President does not deny the facts of the coup, only the semantis of coup.  The functional aspect of coup is not denied by any of the conspirators.   A President of the United States tried to crush the will of the American people and force by lie and threat and threat of violence and finally violence that he would remain President even though he lost.  What Trump did was coup.  It was fool's coup.  It was a liar's coup.  It was a coup of QAnon chain-smokers and restless drunks but it was also a coup.   No government in the world that wanted to live would fail to jail the king of the coup.  Trump committed his crimes in the open, we have him on tape, we have him on video, he openly brags about his crimes and even now spreads the lie that he won.  Any fair government would prosecute.  Any good government would supermax any such existential threat to Democracy.

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The alternate slate of electors filled out the paperwork and sent it to congress before the litigation came to a conclusion. Are you claiming that was illegal?
I'm saying the two cases are extremely different and the comparison is weak. 
Your opinion about differences is irrelevant if you cannot point to relevant differences.

Now answer the question: If they signed the certification before the litigation was complete were they fake electors trying to steal an election (and somehow breaking the law) ?


It is a legal fact that their claims were baseless.
Facts trump "legal facts", and "legal facts" trump your false assumptions about the conclusion of unrelated courts.


They were no more fake than the democrat electors from Hawaii.
not true. Because in Hawaii the count showed the democrats had one.
Not when they signed and sent the votes.


There was absolutely no evidence of fraud.
Yes there was.


With an phony election system I feel justified in armed counterattacks against anyone who dares to cloak themselves in the US constitution until such time as democracy is restored.
let me get this straight. All available evidence says biden won the election fairly, but you feel justified in using violence in overturning that because you have no evidence of fraud....
You aren't even constructing this strawman out of view. I'm watching you stuff the shirt.


If Trump had tried to stay in office without a true election that would be exactly as treasonous
you are literally describing what trump did. He lost an election, then tried to coerce the states to send fake electors that would say he won when he had no evidence of any fraud.
The situation between dueling electors (none of which were or could be legitimate) would have given official justification for holding an emergency true election. Also:


He lost an election
He did not.

He did try to stay in office after losing a true election. 
It was not a true election.

he had no evidence of any fraud.
He did have evidence of fraud. Anyone who isn't burying their head does.

There is both evidence of fraud
what evidence
For example:

And:

  • Specific individuals who voted twice using multiple voter ID numbers
  • Voters registered without a first name
  • Voters registered without a last name
  • Voters registered without a street address
  • Voters registered with phony addresses
  • 26 voters registered at one two-bedroom apartment
  • 290 voters registered at a 16-apartment building in La Crosse
  • 19 voters registered at a newer single-family home in Outagamie County
  • 359 voters registered at an address that hasn’t existed for 10 years in Kenosha County
  • 625,000 dead voters on the rolls
  • 4,300 voters with a “99999” zip code
  • 670,000 inactive voters in Milwaukee
  • 264,000 voters in Milwaukee with a 1918 registration date
  • 20,000 voters with undeliverable mailing addresses in Milwaukee
  • 3,400 FIDO (Fast Identity Online) keys that provide user access to the database have been distributed throughout the state
Time and again I get into the weeds, I go through basic statistical projection, and in the end the fraud denier just falls back on "well it doesn't add up to X needed to change the outcome"

If you're planning to say something so fucking stupid (due to it being a complete strawman), please save me the effort.


there were tons of court cases.
There were some.


tons of investigations.
Far fewer than court cases, and most I heard of found the expected evidentiary pattern for mass fraud.


No one has provided any evidence of fraud.
As long as you dismiss every individual case as isolated that is and when confronted by the general argument: https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/9073-if-you-believe-the-2020-election-was-rigged-im-calling-your-bluff?page=1&post_number=9 you'll dismiss it because there are no examples I guess?


If the so called election was conducted in the same manner and I saw the same evidence of fraud then I would not say Trump won because that would be impossible to know.
all elections are run the same way.
What a fascinating theory. Did you know that Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Kim Jung Il were all elected just as legitimately as Biden? That's how it works apparently. They all run the same way.


So you are saying trump didn't win in 2016 and has never been president?
You're repeating yourself ignoring my answer:

By your logic, trump's victory in 2016 was fraudulent too. By your logic, trump's victory in 2016 was fraudulent too.
There was not mass (often unsolicited) mail in voting in 2016. So no it wouldn't. Also the right tribe in 2016 didn't have the equivalent of TDS. Even now they haven't risen to that level.

Do you think Trump is the first one to point out that mass mail in voting circumvents several critical components in the fraud prevention strategy? 
of course not. Lots of losers and crazy people point to that to explain why they are losers and it isn't their fault.
Such as Jimmy Carter and :

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Vote by mail is, however, likely to increase
the risks of fraud and of contested
elections in other states, where the
population is more mobile, where there is
some history of troubled elections, or
where the safeguards for ballot integrity
are weaker.
What a bunch of crazy people... don't they know actually thinking things through is dangerous to the interests of the deep state?


Mail in voting has been used for a very long time and no significant fraud has been found.
and it won't ever be if the only mechanism of detecting fraud is the cheaters confess en masse.
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No government in the world that wanted to live would fail to jail the king of the coup.  Trump committed his crimes in the open, we have him on tape, we have him on video, he openly brags about his crimes
Double R things anything you say in public can't be a confession (like extorting the firing of a certain Ukrainian prosecutor), disagree?

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Your opinion about differences is irrelevant if you cannot point to relevant differences.
lol i explicitly described the differences. In hawaii they had different counts. One where the republicans won and one where the democrats won. There were ongoing lawsuits to get an official recount to sort this out. In 2020 there was nothing similar to this. There was no evidence of fraud and no cause to believe that the outcome would change. The two situations have little in common, other than the republicans exploiting the case in Hawaii to try to cover their attempted overthrow of democracy. 

Facts trump "legal facts", and "legal facts" trump your false assumptions about the conclusion of unrelated courts.
this doesn't even make sense. The courts offered trump and a variety of right wing loons lots of chances to provide evidence of fraud. Not one shred of evidence could be provided. Those are the facts. 

Yes there was.
no, there was rumors and baseless assertions. Every time a court looked at any example they brought up, there was no actual evidence to be had. 

I see him list off random names and addresses. I flipped through trying to find where he was getting this from but couldn't find him say it anywhere. So i'm just going to assume he is making it up.

And here is the thing about this "evidence". If it was actually evidence, Trump and his allies would be screaming it from the rooftop. They would be showing it in court to prove his allegations are true. The fact that they don't do this, seems pretty definitive that it's bullshit. you can say this stuff on youtube and make lots of money off of idiots. You say this to a judge and can't back it up, and you go to jail. That is why every lawsuit got thrown out for having no evidence, even by trump appointed judges.

Time and again I get into the weeds, I go through basic statistical projection, and in the end the fraud denier just falls back on "well it doesn't add up to X needed to change the outcome"
are you expecting me to go through their "research" line by line and disprove it? There is a place where they would go to show off their "evidence". It's called a court. But none of this "evidence" had ever been put before a judge. Why is that?



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Your opinion about differences is irrelevant if you cannot point to relevant differences.
lol i explicitly described the differences. In hawaii they had different counts.
That's not a difference before the recount.

I'll respond to the rest when you admit this, one point at a time with no red herrings.

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It must be terrifying to believe in all the conspiracies that you do. I feel bad for you.
Fear has a purpose. A little more openness to conspiracy theories would have served the Jews of Europe very well in 1930.