• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    You need evidence to justify a recount when they’re normally only expected to shift the results by less than a percentage point. They’re not cheap, you don’t just do them whenever people feel like it.

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      3 hours ago

      I think that’s enough evidence to warrant such recount.

      There’s a irregularity that, did not happen in prior elections and only in swing states, not even neighboring ones. It could be nothing or could be valid.

      You are saying that there’s no evidence, but with electronic voting machines the only time you get evidence is if you verify it.

      The most mind-blowing thing to me is that the less people are familiar with software engineering the more trusting they are of electronic voting machines and when there are irregularities just dismissing it.

      Tell me, what evidence you would need to say “ok, I think we should recount these machine counted votes”.

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        9 minutes ago

        What specific irregularities? I haven’t heard anything credible yet. This article is about how some of the irregularities being claimed are actually falsehoods people made up, the numbers they use are incorrect.

        Evidence could really be anything, a witness, a whistleblower, a report of some sort. A shift in voting patterns doesn’t really qualify is all, since that happens all the time, and is very normal.