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Eliot Rosewater

(32,537 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:50 AM Jan 2017

Skeptical 70,000 black voters abstained from presidential vote

Uhm, should a stolen election go into an ongoing part of the forum or does it go here in a part of the forum that will be shut down soon?

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/311099-skeptical-70000-black-voters-abstained-from

Should 70,000 uncounted black votes cast in Detroit during last month’s general election matter? Are black voters like black lives in that they matter in American politics? Should black votes have the same chance of being counted as other American votes?

Detroit is not a 100 percent black city, but an overwhelming majority of her residents are black Americans.

Former presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein’s challenge to election results in Michigan and Pennsylvania ended in a crushing defeat. Federal court decisions halted recount efforts in both states. Although her recount challenge in Wisconsin played out to conclusion. She did not get a win there either. It resulted in President-Elect Trump increasing his victory total over Secretary Hillary Clinton by more than 1,000 votes.
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Skeptical 70,000 black voters abstained from presidential vote (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 OP
The link goes nowhere. Can you check again? guillaumeb Jan 2017 #1
Oops, fixed I think Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #2
dumb... Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #3
this is the shit the dnc needs to work on to get fixed. okieinpain Jan 2017 #4
+1, "some" state and local electoral boards were hacked ... I'd put money on it that this is ONE of uponit7771 Jan 2017 #5
I wouldn't put it past some of them NewJeffCT Jan 2017 #7
The link is BS. former9thward Jan 2017 #6

okieinpain

(9,397 posts)
4. this is the shit the dnc needs to work on to get fixed.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 06:17 PM
Jan 2017

i don't know if they need to hold parties with stars and educate people when they come out, but they need to do something to get this problem fixed.

uponit7771

(91,930 posts)
5. +1, "some" state and local electoral boards were hacked ... I'd put money on it that this is ONE of
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 07:39 AM
Jan 2017

... those states

NewJeffCT

(56,840 posts)
7. I wouldn't put it past some of them
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 09:35 AM
Jan 2017

to have been bribed. Russian agents hires a few people to go around to some small towns - "here is $5,000, look the other way when we put these ballots into the machine (flip the levers, press the button, etc)"

former9thward

(33,424 posts)
6. The link is BS.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 09:03 AM
Jan 2017

70,000 did not vote for president. They WERE counted. They voted in down ballot races.

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