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Goodguy  7d ago (text post)   Edited 7d ago   11112 thread views

Midterms Megathread

Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.

The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.

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The suits they filed never alleged actual fraud, just procedural violations that they pretended were some kind of cheat code to get election results thrown out. Nothing that was actually alleged had any bearing on the results. Furthermore, even if they had alleged fraud, they would have needed to have the evidence ready to go. It's not like they had six months to conduct discovery. Nothing new has come out in six years.

pointing out an election was done in an illegal manner and counted illegal votes, which you've chosen to describe here as "just procedural violations," is in fact evidence and should, and does, in regular times, result in election results being thrown out and requiring new elections if the effected votes are larger than the difference in an election

It's not like they had six months to conduct discovery.

Right, instead election contests, like the one filed in Georgia, have a tight schedule to file an election contest and are supposed to get an immediate hearing required by law. Instead, the court just refused to put it on the schedule, it went up to a higher court, the lower court was ordered to put it on the schedule, the lower court didn't do it, and then Jan6 happened and the lower court just decided everything was moot anyway.

woah guys, we're not talking about "actual fraud," just that states conducted an illegal election and counted illegal votes which affected the outcome and then committed crimes in handling of the election, the election records, and votes, including ignoring court orders about intermixing ballots

the legal system just told Trump and other people who cared about the major issues with the 2020 election to screw off and ignored laws and precedents to do it

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