If you have actual proof of or evidence for election fraud, it should be reviewed and action taken if veritable. If something is suspicious and the suspicious withstands scrutiny, then it ought to be investigated properly. Ultimately, beyond providing evidence in your possession to people whose job it is to deal with these shenanigans, there is only so much one can do<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cRecounts will change things or they won\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0 Lawsuits will succeed or they won\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0 Fraud will be proven or it won\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0 The people whose job it is to deal with all that will deal with it. Unless you are one of these people, stop obsessing over what you can\u2019t control and start working towards the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Some people, however, just feel the need to do something\u2014do anything<\/em>\u2014if they merely feel<\/em> that fraud has happened or so suspect shenanigans if an election doesn\u2019t go as they \u201cknow\u201d it would go. Crying \u201cfraud\u201d without proof is the political equivalent of crying wolf: Keep on doing it without providing real proof and people will not only start ignoring you even if you provide evidence, but they will dismiss anyone who makes such \u00a0 claims even if verifiable.<\/p>\n Pictured: Accusations of Election Fraud.<\/p><\/div>\n Do to the emotional<\/em> investment some people have in the outcome of the election and the election not appearing to go their way, combined with the instant gratification nature of the social media echo chamber, many people have built themselves into a frothing rage with any claim of fraud\u2014no matter how readily disproven<\/em>\u2014being taken as absolute non-falsifiable proof of fraud on a hitherto unknown level.<\/p>\n Quite often, claims of fraud based on lack of knowledge or \u201cgut-feeling\u201d turn out to be nothing of the sort. The certainty of some people that something that seems off to them<\/em> based on their limited experience with how things work, however, means that the social media echo chamber gets filled with false accusations and assertions. The belief that votes were \u201cmanufactured\u201d or ballots \u201caltered\u201d for Biden based on \u201csuspiciously high\u201d turnout turns out to be ignorance of election day registration<\/a> that happens most major elections. The idea that Republican votes were being rejected due to a felt-tip pen based conspiracy<\/a> is also complete hokum.<\/p>\n One of the false accusations that got attention from such people as even Donald Trump was that over 100,000 votes were added out of nowhere<\/a> for Biden<\/a> based on screenshots from the veritable Decision Desk HQ. This was a clerical error<\/a> of unofficial<\/em> results which was caught by the Decision Desk HQ and quickly corrected their reporting; the election official who made the error was contacted about this error and corrected it within 20 minutes<\/a>. Yet some people still believe<\/a> this debunked conspiracy.<\/p>\n Worse still are the partisan media on the right who either believe all this or simply don\u2019t care if it is true or not just as long as they get retweets, likes, and ultimately visits to their websites that earn them money.<\/p>\n And all the while so many people are \u201ccrying wolf\u201d that the actual proverbial \u201cwolf\u201d of real election fraud will be lost in the angry din and ignored by most people on the off chance they come across the information, even if there is actual evidence.<\/p>\n To those people pushing these disproven claims of fraud: Please stop! As emotionally cathartic as it may be to not \u201cquietly surrender\u201d and angrily \u201cfight\u201d, it does more harm than good.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Election fraud happens. Electoral shenanigans are pretty much expected, and it has been said for decades now that a candidate not only has to win but win above the \u201cmargin of fraud\u201d. The problem in tackling this is that there … Continue reading \n
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