Wow, probably filling in all the blanks people leave on their ballots, decisions people didn't feel up to making. I left a couple blanks on my ballot as well. I did wonder if this could be a possibility.
Final twitches of Trump's agony. Two complaints from Trump were in Court. These are the results: A judge in the hard-won state of Georgia on Thursday dismissed a complaint from the Republican party and the Trump campaign, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reported. The Trump camp had doubts in one district about 53 votes that observers say were not included in the original package of postal votes. Election officials testified that the votes had arrived in time. The district in question is home to the city of Savannah, a Democratic stronghold, AP said. Trump has also lost a lawsuit in Michigan. Confirmation of the lies from Trump. No fraud at all. Just a desperate and frustrated Trump.
Now was this before or after the voting rolls were purged? Grin.[/QUOTE] Can also be fraud from Trump, adding ballots.
This why Trump wants to stay President: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/trump-election-legal-reckoning/index.html
President Donald Trump spent much of the year laying the groundwork for the strategy of concerted dishonesty he has deployed in the hours after Election Day. First, months ago, he began falsely portraying mail-in ballots as rife with fraud. Second, he falsely claimed that Democratic governors who don't like him are in charge of ballot-counting. Third, he falsely argued that there is something nefarious and even perhaps illegal about the normal practice of counting votes after Election Day. All of this nonsense, the dozens of voting-related lies we've had to debunk over and over and over, appeared to be in service of this current moment -- a close election in which he could try to turn the seeds of doubt he had systematically planted in supporters' minds into full-blown rejection of his possible defeat. Trump launched the plan into action in the early hours of Wednesday morning, delivering a wildly inaccurate White House address in which he baselessly alleged he had already won and baselessly alleged a fraud was being perpetrated against him. Then he retreated to Twitter -- on which almost everything said for the rest of the day was wrong. How serially wrong? As of 5:30 PM, Twitter had affixed some sort of fact check caution label to six of his Wednesday tweets -- and you could make a good argument that some of the others deserved the same treatment. Trump tweeted: "They are working hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear — ASAP. Likewise, Michigan and others!" False. Counties were simply counting the votes. Mail-in votes, which generally favored Democrats, were being counted after Election Day in some states, such as Pennsylvania, because Republican state legislators there would not allow the counting process to begin as the votes arrived. Trump tweeted that "surprise ballot dumps" were making his initial leads in key state "magically disappear." False. There was no "surprise" -- votes were, again, simply being counted -- and ballots were not being actually dumped anywhere. When political observers tweet about "ballot dumps," they are not talking about ballots being discarded. Rather, they are referring to moments in which a large quantity of newly counted votes are entered into, or "dumped" into, the public totals. Trump tweeted, "We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!" Once more: entirely false. Nobody was trying to steal anything; there was no evidence of election fraud. And votes were simply being counted after the polls closed, not cast after the polls closed. Late on Wednesday afternoon, Trump tried an especially feeble bit of deception: proclaiming that "we have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes," Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. (States are not Trump's to "claim" via Twitter. The votes decide who wins them.) Trump then added: "Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact, there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported!" CNN and other media outlets had already projected that Trump's opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, would win Michigan. (Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina remained too close to call at the time.) And there was no evidence of "a large number of secretly dumped ballots," there or elsewhere; he might have been referring to a typo by a Michigan county, quickly corrected, that briefly appeared to give Biden extra votes. It wasn't just Trump making phony assertions on Wednesday. As so often over the last four years, he was being aided by an entire ecosystem of pro-Trump misinformation. The President's son Eric Trump, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and campaign manager Bill Stepien, among other allies, made baseless afternoon declarations that Trump had already won Pennsylvania. Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union and husband of Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp, promoted a baseless conspiracy theory involving Arizona, Trump voters and Sharpie markers. And Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani participated in a campaign event in Philadelphia during which he delivered a barrage of conspiratorial false statements. Giuliani's comments were so absurd we are saving them for a separate fact check. Dishonesty has been a defining feature of the Trump presidency from the start, and it was a central component of his re-election campaign. It was perhaps fitting that, with his possible path to 270 electoral votes getting smaller and smaller, he and his surrogates turned to the approach he knows best.
Trump said, "Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight, and a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people. And we won't stand for it." Facts First: This is false. While Trump didn't identify the "very sad group of people," his opponents and elections officials were not trying to "disenfranchise" -- deprive of the right to vote -- the Trump supporters who voted for him. Democratic leaders were simply calling for all of the votes to be counted. Trump said, "We were getting ready for a big celebration, we were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off." Facts First: This is false; Trump was never "winning everything." At the time Trump spoke, Trump and Biden were both projected by major media outlets to win multiple states, with several key states still too close to call. (Media calls are unofficial; official results come later, from governments around the country.) Trump said, "We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election." Facts First: This is false, at least at the time Trump spoke. While Trump may well prove victorious once the votes are counted, neither he nor opponent Joe Biden had yet reached the 270 electoral votes necessary for a victory; prominent media outlets had not projected a winner in key states including Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. Trump said, "It's also clear that we have won Georgia." He added that, given his margin at the time, "They're never gonna catch us. They can't catch us." Facts First: We aren't privy to Trump's internal vote modeling, but it was not "clear" from the vote count at the time he spoke that he had won Georgia. With votes remaining to be counted from some strongly Democratic areas, it was still mathematically possible for Biden to catch him. Trump said, "Most importantly, we're winning Pennsylvania by a tremendous amount." (It sounded like he may have added "of votes," but he was drowned out by applause.) Facts First: This was highly misleading. While Trump was leading in the Pennsylvania vote count at the time, the outcome in the state was entirely uncertain because there were hundreds of thousands of votes remaining to be counted from strongly Democratic areas, including Philadelphia. Trump said, "we are winning Michigan," then, moments later, said, "we won" Michigan. Facts First: It was false that Trump had "won" Michigan at the time. Again, hundreds of thousands of votes remained to be counted in the state. Trump said, "And all of a sudden, I said what happened to the election? It's off. And we have all these announcers, saying, 'What happened?' And then they said, 'Ohhh.' Because you know what happened? They knew they couldn't win, so they said, 'Let's go to court.'" Facts First: This is false -- though also so vague it's hard to know exactly what Trump was saying. Nobody called off the election. Democrats did file various pre-election lawsuits related to voting rules, but so did Republicans. Trump said, "This is a fraud on the American public." Facts First: This is false. There was no evidence of any significant fraud at the time he spoke. Counting the votes is not fraud. Trump said, "We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 o'clock in the morning and add them to the list, okay?" Facts First: This is false. Voting had been over for hours at the time Trump spoke. What was still happening was the counting of votes -- which always continues past Election Day.
President Donald Trump's eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have spread a significant amount of false information this campaign season on topics ranging from the coronavirus, to their father's alleged successes, to attacks against his Democratic opponent former Vice President Joe Biden. On the eve of the election here's a look at some of the false and misleading claims from Trump's sons. Trump Jr. The coronavirus has been the subject of a ton of misinformation online, some of which has been spread by Trump Jr. Back in July, Twitter even restricted his account for sharing a video that spread false information about hydroxychloroquine. Here are some of the more notable claims he's made about the coronavirus. Covid deaths During a Fox News interview on Thursday, Trump Jr. said that the number of deaths from Covid-19 is now "almost nothing." "I went through the CDC data because I kept hearing about new infections," Trump Jr. said, "but I was like, 'Well, why aren't they talking about deaths?' Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing." Facts First: This is false. The day Trump Jr. made this claim nearly 1,000 virus-related deaths were reported. More than 231,000 people in the US have died from the virus. You can watch a complete debunking of this claim from CNN's Brianna Keilar here. Testing and cases In an interview with radio talk-show host Chris Stigall, Trump Jr. claimed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting an increase in US coronavirus cases because the country has increased testing. "The reason they're seeing more test cases pop up is because they're doing 100 times the testing," he said. Facts First: Trump Jr.'s claim is comprehensively inaccurate, just as it's been when his father has made the same claim repeatedly through the campaign and over the summer. The spike in US coronavirus cases is not being caused by an increase in testing. As of October 26, just three days before Trump Jr.'s interview, The number of confirmed new cases was increasing at a faster rate than the number of new tests, according to the COVID Tracking Project, an initiative that assembles and analyzes coronavirus data. And the number of hospitalizations and deaths is also rising, which shows that the increase in the case numbers isn't merely being caused by tests capturing mild cases. Taken together, the numbers tell a consistent story: the situation in the US is genuinely getting worse. You can read a longer fact check here. Flu deaths In a tweet that's since been retweeted over 26,000 times, Trump Jr. wrote on October 26, "We went from 75,000 flu deaths last year in America to almost 0" and suggested the data was being manipulated. On the Chris Stigall Show a few days later, he went so far as to specifically claim that this year's flu deaths have been categorized as coronavirus deaths instead. "Magically, the flu is also totally gone, right?" Trump Jr. said. "They're just attributing everything to COVID because that's their logic, it's fear." Facts First: Trump Jr. was wrong on multiple counts. When Trump Jr. mentioned last year's flu deaths, it's unclear whether he was referring to the previous flu season or flu deaths in 2019 alone. Either way, his estimate was off. According to a preliminary report from the US Centers for DC, the US had 24,000 -- 62,000 flu deaths during last year's flu season, which lasted from October 1, 2019 through April 4, 2020. And an AFP tally of weekly data from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the CDC, found that 7,250 Americans died of the flu in 2019, not 75,000. The same dataset showed over 8,000 flu deaths in 2020 so far. Only a handful of those deaths are from the 2020-2021 flu season which began at the end of September but that's largely because only a month of data is currently available. It's possible that trend may continue but not because of any misattribution to Covid-19, as Trump Jr. claims. A CDC study published in September suggested that while it's impossible to say what's going to happen when flu season gets underway in the US this fall and winter, measures taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus, like social distancing, teleworking and school closures could also lead to a mild flu season this year. According to the study, "If extensive community mitigation measures continue throughout the fall, influenza activity in the United States might remain low and the season might be blunted or delayed." Eric Trump Eric Trump has also made false and misleading claims on an array of topics. The younger son shared a photoshopped meme on October 20 that falsely pasted MAGA branding on the hats of Ice Cube and 50 Cent, ridiculously asserted that his father had "literally saved Christianity," tweeted a video that falsely claimed Biden used a teleprompter during an interview, and wrongly claimed that Barack Obama never visited Chicago as president. Perhaps more dangerous than those, Eric Trump claimed on Friday that many ballots in New York were sent to voters, pre-filled out for Biden. NY Ballots While discussing voter fraud in an interview with talk-radio host Lars Larson, Eric Trump baselessly claimed that there were "many ballots" found completely filled out for Biden. "n New York, people in Queens were getting ballots that were already filled out for Joe and Kamala," Eric Trump said. "And, it's been turned into authorities and, you know, there are many ballots found by many people, and again, the ballots were already fully filled out and mailed to them and literally just, you know, return these ballots." Facts First: According to the New York City Board of Elections there have been no reports of this occurring. The conspiracy theory revolves around a few tweets that have been debunked. A Twitter user posted allegations that "Several Queens Village (NY) residents are receiving pre-filled out ballots for Joe Biden and being told to just send them back to the Board of Elections." The same user posted a video on October 30, allegedly showing one of these ballots. The NYC Board of Elections replied to the tweet saying the claims were false and that they "have communicated directly with the voter in question, who received a BLANK absentee ballot." The Associated Press reported that the absentee ballot, because it was placed in the wrong envelope, was then sent to the voter's previous address in Queens. Biden's house On October 17, Eric Trump tweeted a picture of a large house, writing "The salary of a U.S. Senator is $174,000 per year. This is Joe Biden's house.... seems legit." Facts First:The house was purchased by Biden for $185,000 in 1975 and was sold -- following renovations -- in 1996 for $1.2 million, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Trump Jr.'s claim highlights some of the hypocrisy in the Trump campaign's attacks. Unlike the President, Biden has released his tax returns for the past 22 years. Only in recent years have the Bidens brought in more than $400,000 per year. In 2017, after leaving office, Biden and his wife Jill reported an income of $11 million and in 2018 they brought in $4.6 million. Much of the new revenue came from book sales and speaking engagements, according to Forbes.
Trump was winning Wisconsin comfortably. Are you saying Trump added ballots to make it look like fraud? If so, is that your final answer? There appear to be serious problems in Wisconsin, especially if the overall voter turnout is 86%. The problem is this 86% is basically an average among all precincts. Some Precincts will show a lower percentage, some precincts by necessity will have to show a higher percentage to get to the overall average. We now have three indications of potential fraud in WI: 1. Mismatch between total vote percentage delta and percentage of votes won by Biden delta. Specifically, in one update, total vote percentage increased by 1% and Biden gained 1.4%; in the next update, the total vote percentage remained unchanged and Biden gained .6%. 2. Inconceivably high overall voter turnout considering that normal variance would inevitably show even higher turnout rates. 3. Statements that indicate a willful break by certain election officials with ballot security. If this case needs to go to the Supreme Court, conspiracy is implied because the election officals and local courts would have to deny addressing obvious and serious irregularities. If the FBI ends up being brought in and there is fraud, quite a few people are risking jail. This FBI investigation could expand into other states and may even lead to national politicians, with possible implications for the 2022 midterms. The FBI has massive capabilities that most don’t fully appreciate.
I copy Trump: statements without any proof. Court rejected already a few of the accusations. Till now not a single claim of fraud was accepted by any court. Republican supervisors are in all counting stations, as well as Democratic supervisors. There were no complaints till it was clear that Trump was passed by Biden. It is also strange that in not a single state where Trump won, there is any fraud. In Wisconsin there will only be a winner when all the votes are counted. What Trump does is like an NBA match where one team tells half way: we are the winners because we are in pole position at this moment. We can stop the match. The prices are give at the end of the match. I agree that a few people risk jail. The most probable is Trump. He knows he is a criminal and is afraid so he wants absolutely to stay President for immunity. This why Trump wants to stay President: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/trump-election-legal-reckoning/index.html "But with the polls showing that Democratic rival Joe Biden is leading in the race, the stakes become much higher for Trump if he loses the election. A raft of legal issues, including a criminal investigation by New York prosecutors, will come into focus in the weeks after Election Day. "In every regard, his leaving office makes it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs in civil cases to pursue their cases against him," said Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor in the Manhattan US attorney's office. "For example, he is claiming a higher protection from subpoenas in the criminal cases and also in the congressional subpoena cases, [and that] is based largely on the fact that he is President." Some have suggested a formal apparatus for investigating Trump after he leaves office. Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, has floated the creation of a "Presidential Crimes Commission," made up of independent prosecutors who can examine "those who enabled a corrupt president," as he put it in an August tweet."
Latest news from 30 minutes ago: Biden takes charge in GeorgiaIn Georgia, Democrat Joe Biden has tipped over Donald Trump, and is now 917 votes in favor, CNN reports. A day ago, Biden was still 18,000 votes behind Trump, but with more and more postal votes being counted, Biden is taking the lead.If Biden eventually takes the win in Georgia, he will increase his current lead in the Electoral College from 253 to 269 electors. That is just not enough for a profit, but at the same time Trump can also reach a maximum of 269 electors, one too few for the presidency. GAME OVER