Subj : Re: Absentee ballots
To   : Gregory Deyss
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Tue Jun 22 2021 21:26:12

On 22 Jun 2021, Gregory Deyss said the following...
 GD> There is many issues with your logic, but this is particularly
 GD> disturbing. Why on the election night the pundits on TV suggest that
 GD> this year was going to look differently with mail in ballots first
 GD> nothing weird about that until they suggested that such votes could be
 GD> going toward and for Joe Biden. hmmm?

Trump explicitly told his supporters not to vote by mail. He explicitly told
them that voting by mail was susceptible to fraud. Is it any surprise that
they listened to him? Would it be particularly difficult to predict that
meil-in votes would favor Biden after Trump had told his supporters not to
vote that way?

You cannot dispute that 1) no state voting results, partial or otherwise, are
released until the polls in that state close, and 2) the early results
favored Trump. Both of these are counter to your narrative of how the evening
proceeded.

Here is a live blog from the election night and into the next morning, from
forex.com. You can find others by Googling "live blog 2020 election," but
what I find particularly interesting about this account is that it includes
real-time commentary on how the changing totals were affecting the markets.
Market analysts are quite meticulous record-keepers, and the trends mentioned
can be verified; they clearly show a Trump lead early on, followed by a Biden
lead later on. If your account of the evening is to be believed, then
forex.com (and virtually every other real-time account of the election) would
have to be lying, and market records would have had to have been altered
after the fact to support that account. This is highly, highly unlikely.

https://www.forex.com/en-us/market-analysis/latest-research/live-blog-2020-elec
tion/

 GD> I mean why put yourself out there like that and tell us that this year it
 GD> would look different. 

They're news commentators; they can say whatever they'd like.

 GD> Followed by polls closing and the counting and ensuring that those votes
 GD> would balance out.

You originally said the votes would balance out once the polls *opened*.

 GD> Did the news screw up and tell us something that we were not suppose to
 GD> know. Specially when it has not happened yet, or did they know what was
 GD> going to happen because it was planned.

Perhaps your memory of what they said is flawed, especially considering that
your memory of the event in general is also flawed. What's particularly
interesting is your memory of specific emotional responses to changes in the
lead, considering that your memory has it exactly backward.

This was not an event to which you were the lone eye-witness; this was an
event simultaneously witnessed by millions of people.

Jeff.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
wrong." -- H. L. Mencken, who indeed was a racist thereby proving himself
right.

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