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In reply to the discussion: 2 letters Requesting VP Harris to Request of Demand Recounts of 2024 Presidential Election [View all]SpankMe
(3,244 posts)The orange cocksucker (OC) and his band of merry Nazi's won. The vote counting is too distributed and de-centralized to have been hacked in all 7 battleground states. Disinformation, eroding moral standards among Americans, and voter apathy lost us this election.
I do hope for detailed audits as a method to keep the system in calibration. Audits would find issues that could be fixed for the next time around. But a re-count with the goal of changing a national election outcome is a bridge too far. It would cost tens of millions. It would take months. It would be chaotic and inconclusive. It would set us up as being poor losers and hypocrites. We touted the integrity of the system when OC lost. It wouldn't be a good look for us to say the election was stolen when he won.
I don't discount the possibility that there was fraud, and I wouldn't be opposed to recounts in certain down-ballot races (i.e., in tight races where we could take the House).
But, Kamala has conceded. Vote counts have been certified. Our battle posture must now change. The campaign for 2028 starts on 21-Jan-2025. We need to up our own information campaign (something to counter the right's disinformation juggernaut); we need to recruit and condition Democratic national leaders and identify someone we could elevate to Democratic standard bearer and throw our support behind that person.
These mathematicians and computer experts should release their analyses for peer review and public awareness. But Kamala herself asking for a 7-state re-count would be a huge tactical mistake.