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Hello to all our new viewers who& #39;ve encountered our 2019 segment on voting machines through conservative media using it to push Trump& #39;s voter-fraud claims! First: sorry we swear so much! But second: the way people are using that segment is horseshit!
If you watch our segment through to the end, you& #39;ll notice that we say the biggest vulnerability is if a state uses direct-recording electronic voting machines, or DREs, especially those without a paper trail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Good news! Of the states where the Trump campaign is contesting the election results – PA, GA, MI, WI, AZ and NV – only Nevada still uses DRE machines, and even those produce a paper trail.
On top of which, a huge proportion of votes this year came in on absentee ballots, which are... y& #39;know... paper ballots.
In the story, we also suggest that a good failsafe is to perform a risk-limiting audit after an election is completed. GA is wrapping up its risk-limiting audit. PA, NV and MI are piloting risk-limiting audits this year. AZ and WI are performing more limited audits this year.
Would you like Wisconsin and Arizona to perform risk-limiting audits? Maybe their Republican-led state legislatures should get on that!
(Is now the time to point out that in 2019, the House passed the SAFE Act, which would& #39;ve required every state to have risk-limiting audits in federal elections, but McConnell didn& #39;t bring it up for a vote in the Senate? It sure seems like a good time to mention it.)
Finally, and most importantly: There is no evidence that any voting-machine fraud happened. In fact, some of the experts we consulted for our piece signed a letter regarding the Trump campaign& #39;s allegations. Would you like to read it? Here it is!
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And here& #39;s @PolitiFact& #39;s writeups of the Dominion Voting Systems and Hammer/Scorecard rumors that you may& #39;ve seen -- both of which they rate "Pants on Fire". (Note: "Pants on Fire" is bad.)
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/13/facebook-posts/no-evidence-dominion-voting-systems-caused-widespr/">https://www.politifact.com/factcheck... https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/pamela-geller/debunking-hammer-and-scorecard-election-fraud-cons/">https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/13/facebook-posts/no-evidence-dominion-voting-systems-caused-widespr/">https://www.politifact.com/factcheck... https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/pamela-geller/debunking-hammer-and-scorecard-election-fraud-cons/">https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...
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