• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    7 days ago

    One piece of this is pretty easily debunked:

    “Your votes are rigged. We can win New Mexico.”

    If that were true, why didn’t they? 🤔

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_New_Mexico

    Not only did Trump lose, he wasn’t even close.

    Fewer people turned up for Harris, likely due to the lower emphasis on vote by mail this year compared to 2020, but he still lost.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_New_Mexico

    As for the whole “Starlink hacked the machines!” that’s as crazy a claim as the Hugo Chavez claims from 2020.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/11/left-wing-conspiracy-theorists-elon-musk-satellites/

    "There is no evidence to support the claims spreading on social media. US voting machines are typically disconnected from the internet in order to prevent interference.

    Last week Jen Easterly, director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said there was “no evidence of any malicious activity that had a material impact on the security or integrity of our election infrastructure”.

    Allegations that there are millions of “missing” votes have been spread by both Democrats unhappy about Trump’s victory and Republicans who claimed the theories vindicate their concerns about the 2020 result.

    The discrepancy in the number of votes cast is mostly down to slow vote counting in California, which as of Monday had only processed around 74pc of ballots despite being called for Kamala Harris days ago."

    I’m not going through the rest of the claims as it’s obviously just so much tinfoil hattery.

    Youtube is not a source, anyone can go on Youtube and say anything.

    Ditto Facebook, Twitter, reddit, etc. etc.

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        6 days ago

        And still more useful than your sources.

        Trump did not win New Mexico despite your claim that they could flip it by cheating, that’s not up for debate.

        Voting machines are NOT connected to the Internet, starlink or otherwise. Again, not up for debate.

        Take your tin-foil hat somewhere else.