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This is shameful legislation, that does nothing to tackle the problems with UK elections.THREAD
Millions of people do not have photo ID. By forcing through mandatory voter-ID the government risk disenfranchising millions of legitimate voters. https://t.co/y0Upzof2FI
— Electoral Reform Society (@electoralreform) February 17, 2021
There is no evidence in-person voter fraud is a problem, and it wd be near-impossible to organise on an effective scale. Campaign finance violations, digital disinformation & manipulation of postal voting are bigger issues, but these are crimes of the powerful, not the powerless.
In a democracy, anything that makes it harder to vote - in particular, anything that disadvantages one group of voters - should face an extremely high bar. Compulsory voter ID takes a hammer to 3 million legitimate voters (disproportionately poor & BAME) to crack an imaginary nut
If the government is concerned about the purity of elections, it should reflect on its own conduct. In 2019 it circulated doctored news footage of an opponent, disguised its twitter feed as a fake fact-checking site, and ran adverts so dishonest that even Facebook took them down.
Britain's electoral law largely predates the internet. There is little serious regulation of online campaigning or the cash that pays for it. That allows unscrupulous campaigners to ignore much of the legal framework erected since the C19th to guard against electoral misconduct.
ABs in PA - even if Biden received:
-95% of returned Democrat votes
-21% of returned Republican votes
-80% of returned Independent votes
He wouldn't have as many votes as he actually received
🕵️Investigation Needed🕵️
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I've been consistent on this issue since Nov 4th
I just didn't know what the final vote breakdown of absentee ballots was until now
Biden's final total of 1,995,591 is virtually impossible to explain given the party affiliation of absentee ballot
Biden\u2019s 78% of absentee ballots in Pennsylvania is highly irregular
— Gummi Bear (@gummibear737) November 5, 2020
Ballot harvesting is illegal in Pennsylvania: even having your neighbor mail your ballot is illegal
The election will ultimately be decided in the courts and they can go back to check signatures, witnesses, etc https://t.co/RHi7tZRur9
Don't believe me, let's look at exit polls from election day (Washington Post)
Exit polls show Biden +85% among Democrats meaning
Democrat Voters in PA:
92.50% Biden vs 7.5% others
Let's say this is within the margin of error and 95% is
The same exit polls show Trump +83% among Republicans meaning
Republican Voters in PA:
91.50% Trump vs 8.5% other
so 21% of Republicans voting for Trump is out of the question
Let's give Biden 11% of Republican ABs in case there was a margin of error in Trump's favor
The same exit poll on Independents
Biden by 51 percent to 43 percent for Trump
So there is no way Biden gets 80% of the Independent vote
Let's be nice and bump it up (😉) to 55% of Independents voting for Biden
1/ Another observation the #Literalist fallacy I see about how much Trump (ym'sh) has planned all of the chaos & violence. My overarching point will be that society is structured & that means there's an inherent pattern to effects no matter the 'intelligence' behind the causes
— Joshua Cypess (@JoshuaCypess) January 12, 2021
2/ It struck me to link to another conundrum (kinda like the large plague frog in the room): how Pharaoh has his free will removed
So, the nameless action could be a purposeful contrast to the singular powerful individual who normally is history's
3/ IMO God manipulates Pharaoh in order to prevent one person making too much of a difference!
This ties into another larger point I often make about the culpability of the Egyptians & how actually they, not Pharaoh, are the focus of the plagues.
4/ My point contrasts how the Egyptians - who were responsible for being enslavers, for dehumanizing & stealing the labor of Israelites up to the point of joining in the Pharaoh command of infanticide (see
5/ These individuals needed to make their choices without coercion from the autocrat, hence Pharaoh lost 'free will' in his capacity as someone who can move the engines of political power.
He lost free will in order to preserve the free will & action of his subjects