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The reality is that it always takes time for some states to count all the votes; when these rumors started ramping up, there were over ten million uncounted ballots in California alone. But, many people don't know that this is how things always work. So, with emotions high in the aftermath of the election, disinformation purveyors are taking advantage of the opportunity to get well-intentioned people to help amplify conspiracy theories.

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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I fully believe that the Rs pulled some sort of shady shit with ballots. For them 'every accusation is a confession' is an immutable law.

It doesn't matter, though, because the people who could do anything about it are on his team.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Completely agree. They said for months they had a better plan, Trump and Johnson had their little secret, elections have taken days in the past several yet this one ends almost immediately.

I completely believe that it could be legit, but I absolutely think that they managed to do something. And as you said, doesn't fucking matter even if they did.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

elections have taken days in the past several yet this one ends almost immediately.

Not in the past several, in the last one where the whole country had pretty universal vote by mail abilities.

Now it takes a while to count the vote in places like California which still have universal vote by mail, and the returns are near instant in other areas that used the "voter fraud" narratives to eliminate or drastically scale back their vote by mail initiatives.