Here you go, a ā€œrealā€ source. He said there were more bullet ballots than there likely really are, but thereā€™s still a really suspiciously high number of them. How is this not at least worth investigating?

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    Right, youā€™re not a conspiracy theoristā€”youā€™re just ā€œasking questionsā€ and urging people to ā€œdo their own research.ā€ Where have we heard that before? While you throw around baseless accusations about the Harris-Trump election, the reality is this: thereā€™s no credible evidence to support claims of widespread fraud. Swing states have robust systems for verifying results, and the election process is overseen by bipartisan officials, including both Democrats and Republicans who vouched for its integrity. Demanding ā€œjust one investigationā€ isnā€™t about seeking the truth; itā€™s about refusing to accept the outcome.

    I know you youā€™re unlikely to read let alone comprehend this postā€”just like you didnā€™t read the article youā€™re twistingā€”but for anyone else stumbling across your nonsense, this is the reality: your claims are bullshit. Theyā€™re not just wrong, theyā€™re embarrassingly, demonstrably wrong based on the very data provided for you in the article to which you are responding. Letā€™s go through the numbers youā€™ve clearly ignored.

    You say there were ā€œ5-12% bullet ballotsā€ in swing states, but the data in no way supports that claim. Take North Carolina: out of 5,722,556 ballots cast, 5,592,243 included votes in the governorā€™s race. That means just 130,313 ballots didnā€™tā€”a mere 2.3%, not your laughable ā€œ5-12%.ā€ Arizona? Of 3.4 million ballots cast, only 81,673 didnā€™t include votes for the Senate raceā€”about 2.4%, again miles below your inflated, made-up conspiracy numbers. Nevada? The difference was 23,159 ballots out of nearly 1.5 millionā€”a negligible 1.6%. Interesting. On average thatā€™sā€¦ basically right where you said it should ā€œnormallyā€ be.

    Bullet ballots in battleground states are rare, but theyā€™ve always existed, especially in contentious elections. And theyā€™ve always been higher in battleground states. Swing-state voters tend to focus on the presidency when the stakes are high, which is common knowledge to anyone who understands voting behavior. Your numbers? They donā€™t exist.

    As for your implication that itā€™s ā€œimprobableā€ for Trump to win the presidency while Democrats do better down-ballot, I hate to break it to you, but racism and sexism is a much simpler, proven explanation with data to support it. Polling had consistently shown that Harris faced deep resistance, even among Democrats, with much of it rooted in gender and racial bias. Voters who rejected Harris while supporting other Democrats werenā€™t casting ā€œimpossibleā€ ballotsā€”they were reflecting prejudices that have been documented for decades. You donā€™t need a vast conspiracy to explain why Kamala Harris lost; you need to look at exit polls and confront the ugly reality of American history and culture

    The bomb threats on Election Day, which you seem desperate to weave into your narrative, were investigated by the FBI and found to largely be hoaxes originating from Russian email domains. These threats, while reprehensible, had no impact on the electionā€™s integrity and were not linked to any domestic conspiracy. The idea that they were part of a grand scheme to disrupt the ā€œchain of custodyā€ or facilitate hacking is pure fantasy, unsupported by a shred of evidence. If anything, they reflect an attempt to intimidate voters and officials, not to alter outcomes. Clinging to this as proof of fraud is the hallmark of conspiracy theorists: taking unrelated incidents and spinning them into a baseless, implausible story when reality doesnā€™t fit their worldview.

    And this is exactly where your conspiratorial thinking falls apart. Rather than accept straightforward, evidence-backed explanationsā€”strategic voting in swing states, voter sexism, or even the simple fact that Trump remains popular among many, indeed a majority of, voters in this countryā€”you leap to shadowy plots and grand conspiracies. This is textbook conspiracy logic: inflate normal patterns into anomalies, ignore the data that contradicts you, and demand investigations into ā€œquestionsā€ youā€™ve invented yourself. Itā€™s bad-faith reasoning at its worst.

    Your entire argument isnā€™t skepticism; itā€™s denial. Youā€™re not interested in the factsā€”if you were, youā€™d see how consistently they dismantle your claims. This isnā€™t about election fraud. Itā€™s about your refusal to reckon with reality.

    She lost. Get over it.

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      These threats, while reprehensible, had no impact on the electionā€™s integrity

      So why did the Russians do them? For lolz? Do you really think a state actor expended resources in order to have no effect?

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        State actors expend resources that have no effect all the time. Wanting to have an effect and actually having the desired effect are two different things, as Iā€™m sure you know from your own life.

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      Whew. I did, in fact, read it.

      There was no need to be rude in your post about it.

      Turns out the numbers are still being updated. Theyā€™ve gone up about since you posted (and funny enough, Trump no longer has above 50% of the vote - i.e. the mandate of the people). Iā€™ll admit that I was getting my information from Stephen Spoonamoore, and that the data does not match up with the current results. I went and pulled the numbers as well and it looks like itā€™s even lower than what you found based on comparison to Senate data. However, Iā€™m not a security specialist, nor am I a data analyst. I was deferring to people that have more experience than me.

      That said, Iā€™m not saying that it was rigged - I am however saying that a bunch of weird shit happened, and Iā€™m hoping that someone looks into deeper JUST TO BE SURE. It looks like Pennsylvania is actually doing a recount - if they come back with nothing, Iā€™ll shut up about it. And yes, itā€™s entirely skepticism, Iā€™m not in denial about Trump winning.

      I donā€™t get why thereā€™s such a hesitation about being sure of something. Itā€™s like smelling smoke, and being told to stfu about there being a fireā€¦that everything is working as intended. Like, do I have ā€œevidenceā€ of there being a fire? No, butā€¦why tf wouldnā€™t we just establish that nothing is on fire, just to be on the safe side.

      I 100% agree that none of the things suggested are ā€œevidence,ā€ but without some sort of investigation, no one will ever actually be able to get any evidence.

      If you actually wind up responding, try not to strawman me this time as some sort of election denier, ā€œdo your own researchā€ kook. I didnā€™t do that to you, did I?

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        Yeah fair enough. I think I was responding in tone more to the OP and other desperate conspiracy theorists who are clinging to the hope, against all evidence, that the election was somehow stolen from the democrats. Given Republicans now will have majorities in the house, senate, state legislatures, supreme court, governorships, and will control the executive branch ā€“ not to mention the anticipated purge of federal agencies and loyalist-stuffing ā€“ I find it very important that democrats level with themselves instead of looking for excuses.

        While itā€™s true Trump lost an absolute majority, the republican candidate still beat the democratic candidate by about 2.5 million votes, with about 98.9% votes counted. And, as you noted, recounts in some counties and states are occurring, and the FBI has been, and as far as I know still is, investigating questions and concerns about the election being hacked since at least August.

        That said, I take your point, and Iā€™m sorry for being so derisive in the tone of my response. I appreciate your level-headed reply.