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  Is it stupid to question the election results? (search mode)
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Will F.D. People
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« on: December 12, 2004, 06:20:53 PM »

I wish simple stupidity were involved. I think that there are people actively trying to overturn the election results simply because they do not like who won and are comfortable substituting their preference for the clearly expressed will of the people.
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Will F.D. People
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2004, 06:36:00 PM »

I think there are two equally stupid views to hold regarding this election:

1.  It absolutely must have been stolen.

2.  It could not possibly have been stolen.

It is not a mathematical certainty that it is impossible to have stolen the election. There are lots of things that are not impossible but are so unlikely they are effectively impossible.

It is possible that all the air molecules in the room you are reading this in will rush to the far side of the room and you'll explode.

It is possible that a given roulette wheel in Las Vegas will land on the same number 1,000 spins in a row.

It is possible that an entire NFL season can be played with every game ending in the score 2-2.

I agree that we need to watch our elections to make sure they are above board. But this election? Was not stolen.
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Will F.D. People
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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2004, 04:10:13 PM »

I am watching the Massachusetts electors meet on C-SPAN right now. C-SPAN said that at this hour we were supposed to be watching the Texas meeting. Then right when it was supposed to start, the C-SPAN announcer said that they were having "audio problems" and showed us Massachusetts instead. This sounds pretty fishy -- after all, haven't they know about the Texas electoral college meeting for, well, years? This is obvious proof of the left-wing bias of C-SPAN.

Be that as it may, an incredible thing happened while the Massachusetts electors were voting. Each elector got to stand up and make a little speech as they cast their vote. The first elector said that it was important that every vote counts and that you should count every vote, and she was going to dedicate herself to election reform, and the second elector said that he was glad to live in a state where every vote was counted.

The people who get picked as electors are party activists. I take this as a sign that it is not just the loony left that is using the "delegitimize the vote" strategy to undermine the President. It is rank-and-file Democratic leaders.

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Will F.D. People
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2004, 04:26:03 PM »

I don't see why they couldn't have audio problems?

Replacing Texas with Massachusetts? It is all too tidy . . .
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