• vortic@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    You’re probably right but I don’t really get it. Mesa County is so red that Trump won by 28 points in 2020. What was this person trying to achieve? For that matter, what was Tina Peters was trying to achieve? I just don’t understand how either of them could have made a difference when, in 2020, Trump won by over 25K votes out of a total of 91K votes cast and 107K registered voters.

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        21 days ago

        And the statewide margin was still a 14 point margin. Too much to overcome with 12 stolen ballots.

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          20 days ago

          testing the waters. probably would have kept doing it if they weren’t caught, or tried on a larger scale in future elections.

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      21 days ago

      Perhaps they wanted it to be caught, where it wouldn’t make a difference if it wasn’t, in order to shore up their future claims that more of the same occurred in more competitive districts. As well as undermining faith in the election as a whole.