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Old 07-25-2022, 06:24 PM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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Originally Posted by VA Yankee View Post
Heres the actual story of what happened from the news station:

"KALAMAZOO, Mich. — In advance of Michigan’s Tuesday, Aug. 2 primary election, News Channel 3 was conducting a test of its election systems last week. In doing so, the station inadvertently published mock results on WWMT.com. The numbers used were randomly generated and did not reflect actual results."
https://wwmt.com/news/local/news-cha...voting-results
And if we read between the lines...

Here's the actual story of what happened from the news station:

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — In advance of Michigan’s Tuesday, Aug. 2 primary election, covert Democrat election agents were calibrating their election padding systems last week--setting some voting weight variables. In doing so, our station inadvertently published the upcoming fraudulent result of the election on WWMT.com. The numbers reported will be the actual results, regardless of voter turnout or what actually appears on the ballots and are ultimately decided compliments of Domination Inc.

 
Old 07-25-2022, 06:25 PM
 
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Well, now I can't wait to see the actual results next week!
 
Old 07-25-2022, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Central NJ and PA
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Originally Posted by VA Yankee View Post
To report the results as they are available, there are many people who are not living online and still get this kind of information from their local tv channels and whatever newspapers are in the town.
Reporting results isn’t the same thing as an election system. Not even close. Any news station who doesn’t already know how to report election results as they come in is either lying or incompetent.
 
Old 07-25-2022, 07:12 PM
 
Location: California
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Even if this is a human error in printing mock election results (HOW IN THE HECK THOUGH?) it's not acceptable since it suggests to readers that certain people have already won, which signals to them that they don't have to bother voting for anyone else.

Does this paper not have editors or proof readers or anyone that realizes what an election is and when it occurs? If not, they shouldn't be in business at all.
 
Old 07-25-2022, 10:17 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Originally Posted by Ceece View Post
Even if this is a human error in printing mock election results (HOW IN THE HECK THOUGH?) it's not acceptable since it suggests to readers that certain people have already won, which signals to them that they don't have to bother voting for anyone else.

Does this paper not have editors or proof readers or anyone that realizes what an election is and when it occurs? If not, they shouldn't be in business at all.
And, how many times has this outfit made "inadvertent errors" saying the Republican's opponents are winners?

And, how many times have they made "inadvertent errors" saying the Republican was the winner?
 
Old 07-26-2022, 06:32 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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Why does a news channel have election systems?
Do you think those unofficial vote tallies show up on the crawl at the bottom of the screen by magic?

There are systems in place where unofficial vote counts are uploaded and then that feeds the data crawl on the TV screen.

Does no one remember the typo from the 2020 election that had people screaming about more votes than voters? I seem to remember the data file uploaded simply had an extra zero at the end, so it was something like 4x,xx0 votes from a county with only 4,xxx voters.
 
Old 07-26-2022, 06:38 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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And it's purely coincidental that any "mistake" the station makes like this, always favors the Democrats.
That these notional vote totals "favor the Democrats" is sheer opinion. I would argue that Meijer will be a tougher opponent for the Dems than Gibbs.

Exhibit A:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...imary-00047750

Anti-Trump doesn't mean the Dems want to run against him.
 
Old 07-26-2022, 06:41 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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Reporting results isn’t the same thing as an election system. Not even close. Any news station who doesn’t already know how to report election results as they come in is either lying or incompetent.
You appear to be making a HUGE and completely unfounded assumption here.

Election system = system pertaining or relating to the election. You think a news station has a bunch of Dominion machines in the back room or something?
 
Old 07-26-2022, 06:44 AM
 
Location: Honolulu, HI
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Originally Posted by Kristinas_Cap View Post
there is no proof of voter fraud
Just the way the Dems like it.
 
Old 07-26-2022, 06:51 AM
 
Location: Western PA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VA Yankee View Post
Heres the actual story of what happened from the news station:

"KALAMAZOO, Mich. — In advance of Michigan’s Tuesday, Aug. 2 primary election, News Channel 3 was conducting a test of its election systems last week. In doing so, the station inadvertently published mock results on WWMT.com. The numbers used were randomly generated and did not reflect actual results."
https://wwmt.com/news/local/news-cha...voting-results

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