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by newacct583 2022 days ago
> This is a total failure of building trust in elections

Rather it's a success in tearing down that trust. And the tools used in that effort were lies like this one:

> We only know that currently 0.02% of ballots were rejected vs 6% previous elections.

See: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...

It's lies. It's all lies. You're reading lies and choosing to believe them[1]. So is it any wonder that Youtube is thinking that maybe they shouldn't have a hand in spreading those lies?

[1] As proven by your reply that the link does not "prove a lie"! That's not the way the burden of proof works. You are choosing to believe this categorical statement given to you without support. That is a "lie" in the vernacular.
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dukeofdoom 2022 days ago
The fact check does not prove a lie. At most it proves that Trump is not making the statement based on publicly available data. Since the final rejection rate for 2020 have not yet been released.

From the fact check:

"Georgia rejected 6.42% of mail-in ballots in total in the 2016 general election "

"The higher percentage he mentions for past years is likely based off the total rejected ballots (here) which can not be compared with 2020, as this information is not available."

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dukeofdoom 2022 days ago
This site seem have the most up to date numbers. "Rejected absentee/mail-in ballots as a percentage of total absentee/mail-in ballots returned, 2016-2020"

Georgia 2016 6.42%

Georgia 2020 .60%

Source https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Analysis_of_...

Which cites the official Georgia election website as source of the raw data.

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newacct583 2022 days ago
The Reuters link specifically addresses that: it's a tabulation error, the older data shows ballots rejected for all causes, the 2020 data is limited to those rejected for signature mismatches only, they haven't released the all-cause number yet. And the signature rejection numbers broadly match up, both being sub-1%.
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disgrunt 2022 days ago
It isn't just Georgia. The other states reporting have a order of magnitude drop in absentee ballot rejections. Seems like a problem?
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