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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

North Carolina

Spoonamore alleged that the purported hacking and fraud in North Carolina proved to be "the most extreme" and that "the public results indicate over 350,000 voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race." However, this is false. 

According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections' website, as of Nov. 21, 5,722,556 voters cast ballots. Of those, 5,699,152 ballots displayed votes in the race for president. The website also reported that 5,592,243 ballots bore votes for the state's governor's race. A comparison of the numbers for total votes and the gubernatorial race would reveal the maximum number of possible "bullet vote" ballots for all presidential candidates. The difference between the two numbers is 130,313 votes — a count nowhere near the 350,000 votes stated by Spoonamore. Trump received 183,048 more of North Carolinian's votes than Harris.

Welp.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

He told a good, plausible story. The count claims were the first thing I was going to verify, and Snopes pointed right to the actual source.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So we upgraded from blaming minority voters to literally Trump's own 2020 election mouthpiece lmao.

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I feel like the folks who felt super justified in not voting are now obsessive on this. but. but. other people were supposed to get us the democrat against our will....

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is not my experience at all. I'm mostly seeing people the, "Harris ran a perfect campaign," crowd buying in on this one.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

who is like ran a pefect campaign? no politician runs a perfect campaign any more than anything else is perfect in the world. It was fine relative to any other, but elections should not be determined by how well campaigns are run. If politicians put up a an accurate list of their accomplishments and platform online and participate in debates that should all that be needed for an electorate to vote in the modern age.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

who is like ran a pefect campaign?

Joy Reid. She was very impressed that Queen Latifah endorsed her. It's made her into a sort of a poster child for liberals who are delusional about the Democrats flaws.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So your saying Joy Reid ran a PERFECT campaign. No flaws, no errors, of any kind. She is some kind of automaton or divine being. No one does anything perfect.

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, we're the people that always love to talk about evidence. So, let's make sure we're applying that principle evenly and demanding and looking at evidence for claims we like the sound and feeling of.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well there are irregularitiea and a manual recount would either provide evidence or it would prove that no such thing happened.

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Bullet votes" completely jibe with the narrative that a small but significant percentage of Trump voters are willfully low-information, so un-invested in the democratic process that they can't be bothered to take the time even to vote a straight party ticket, and think that voting for a single strong-man will fix all their problems. The non-electoral factors behind all this are deeply troubling, and many of them are criminal, but for the actual voting there's no need to invent a conspiracy when simple shittiness will do.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The bullet ballot nonsense was started by a Republican kook that's made fake election claims about every election going all the way back to 2008.

Definitely something to ignore.

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