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Previous Guy's lies and those "tricky" dicky voting machines, again [1]
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Date: 2022-11-12
We grow weary of the Trump whining even as the votes are being counted systematically.
x "Especially after two years of conspiracy-mongering by Trump and his most influential supporters, the mere mention of Tricky Voting Machines makes the rest of the plot immediately clear," @noUpside writes:
https://t.co/uY6EXh30rH — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 12, 2022
As part of the Election Integrity Partnership, my team at the Stanford Internet Observatory studies online rumors, and how they spread across the internet in real time. As we watched speculation about intentional tampering with Maricopa voting equipment multiply on social media, racking up tens of thousands of user engagements, I was reminded of a similar 2020 incident—one that also falls into the category that my colleagues and I sometimes call “Tricky Voting Machines.” In what came to be known as Sharpiegate, supporters of former President Donald Trump claimed that, because they’d been given felt-tip markers to fill out their ballots, tabulation machines weren’t recording their votes. At the time, half of the American voting public had been told for months by media commentators and political leaders whom they trusted—indeed, by the president himself—that the election would be stolen from them. Compounding that mindset today are two years of claims that the 2020 election was in fact fraudulent. The details of how remain shrouded in mystery, unknowable even after a variety of investigations and audits. But that didn’t matter in Maricopa County this week. Especially after two years of conspiracy-mongering by Trump and his most influential supporters, the mere mention of Tricky Voting Machines makes the rest of the plot immediately clear.
But healthy skepticism is warranted. And if we as media consumers can begin to recognize the tropes—Oh, that’s Tricky Voting Machines again, and it seldom amounts to anything—perhaps we’ll be less prone to amplifying viral rumors and can reach a place of more measured consideration of underlying facts.
www.msn.com/...
x From Tuesday night - this is now taking off, and surprise, surprise, Trump is the ringleader.
https://t.co/WxtLDhXkai — Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) November 12, 2022
x No. The system was put in place by the Republican legislature after Trump's loss and everyone called fraud. They stripped her of power. Hobbs doesn't touch ballots or voting machines. She certifies the totals given to her by the counties.
https://t.co/nBAILCdggW — Barbra Jimsdottír (@IngallsLaurel) November 12, 2022
x .
Define a Fascist:
Trump's plan to seize voting machines.
https://t.co/ZEZ97fWr2C — RelaxFactsRFun (@RelaxFactsRFun) November 11, 2022
x Trump now says Fetterman stole the election from Oz. pic.twitter.com/Z4Y2qv5zNM — Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 10, 2022
x Trump was back pushing election fraud theories this week, saying election officials in Arizona were tampering with voting machines and that a “large” number of absentee ballots in Detroit were fraudulent.
There is no evidence for either claim.
https://t.co/kYJvCacVJw — Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 11, 2022
Without evidence, former President Donald Trump reiterated midterm election fraud theories throughout the day Tuesday as Republicans vied for control of Congress, claiming election officials in Arizona were tampering with voting machines and that a “large” number of absentee ballots in Detroit were fraudulent—although election officials denied both accusations.
[...]
Trump-backed candidates largely followed the former president’s lead in promoting the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen, including 202 GOP congressional candidates running this year who believed it was either flawed or based on fraud, according to the Brookings Institution.
www.forbes.com/...
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