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> Look you probably think you 'won' because I mis-spoke about a majority of democrats, but these numbers are .. not great. 45% of the country, 11% of democrats? The results have stayed stable across time. Guess what, they get to vote too? You have to convince them. One easy way to do that is to share their incredulity that 1000s of ballots come in 100% for Biden in the middle of the night.

> You know, you can approach this like a scientific hypothesis testing, or you can approach it the way everyday voters do.

That's the problem, there is no proof that will convince them. And I don't mean that derogatorily. In generally, one can't be convinced by facts when they arrived at a conclusion by feelings. Especially, when so much astroturfing that was done about "I'm not saying there's fraud, but a lot of people are saying it.". If you have people in high places, that know better (because we have them on record saying they know 2020 was legit), spreading fear for the sake of it, all it does is create a false narrative of some overwhelming consensus, which then just feeds on itself. "See, look at all of these tweets, posts, articles, mentioning other people mentioning that they have a bad feeling about 2020."

There was no evidence that anything was untoward in the 2020 election—and people have had 4 years at this point to present evidence that there was. The problem with your example is that people looked at something that has occurred for almost every election in the past 100 years, that precinct by precinct votes often come in over time and in groups (you cannot be surprised that a precinct, as in a specific small area, is more homogenous than not). You can find pictures of chalkboards and primitive displays of election-night results coming in even from the early 20th century (probably before this too). But people took these static, after the fact, incremental updates to the running total as some sort of horse race. Like the NYTimes was tracking a basketball game. It's not, to pick a computer metaphor, it's like showing a progress bar for a count of all of the items in a database. The computer literally cannot count all of the "red" or "blue" items in one atomic operation; it has add them up, incrementally.

This has been proposed elsewhere, but in addition to actual speeding up the counting in certain states (and removing the barriers to doing counting ahead of of time(looking at you, PA)), is the idea of making it illegal to post results until some representative threshold of the results are in. As in, once you can be statistically certain that a different outcome isn't possible (maybe 99.99% or something), then you can post your first update of the results. Obviously, no one would accept that we should wait until all of the results are in, because oversees/military/absentee ballots might take days to arrive (even if they were mailed the day before election day). And, one obvious solution is maybe to require, at a national level, that all ballots must be received by COB election day, so that they can be tabulated in a timely manner.

Again, I fully understand that most people operate off of vibes and feels. Even highly educated people, outside of their domain (and maybe even inside their domain, if they have a vested interest in not being proved wrong), will default to vibes and feels. But you literally CANNOT prove a negative. So, just like it's impossible to prove no aliens have visited us, no one can prove that the 2020 election wasn't "stolen". Which is why we require evidence to rebut claims (extraordinary or not). No one has provided proof that aliens have visited us. And no one has provided proof that the 2020 election was "stolen"—as in the outcome would've been different. Yup, there's always some shitheads, ne'er-do-wells, and honestly-mistaken-about-their-elibilibity-to-vote-people that are caught each year. (Sadly, especially for the GOP, the number of GOP-voting voters that fall into the category outnumber the Dem-voting voters.) But, not once, at least that I've been able to find record of, in the past 40+ years, has identified fraud been able to change the result of any election from state-representative on up.