He reports that Dominion Software, which provides voting tabulation tools to about half of the states in the United States, "canceled" millions of votes, which were firmly rejected after outgoing President Trump parroted numbers from an Internet forum. random.
On Thursday morning, tweeting about unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, Trump sued OANN, a right-wing news agency, which in turn appeared to have found its numbers in a thread on the pro-Trump Reddit knock-off thedonald.win. (The tweet was quickly wrapped in a warning that the contents are disputed.)
The anonymous person who posted there said he compared the numbers from Edison Research, a company that does exit polls and other election-related measures, with those of Dominion, and found very different amounts. The methods are not explained very well, nor are the results. It is not really clear what is being compared to what and why, or why this alleged fraud was publicly published by the alleged perpetrating company. No one has verified (if that's the word) this analysis in any way.
In a comment to Politifact, Edison chairman Larry Rosin wrote that "we have no evidence of any voter fraud" and that he has virtually no idea what the alleged analysis refers to.
Dominion drew attention earlier in the week when it looked like a glitch had caused a number of votes to be registered for President-elect Joe Biden rather than Trump. But the incorrect count was immediately discovered and it turned out to be the result of human error. The company has dedicated a page to fighting disinformation on its software.
Politifact has assessed Trump's claim "Pants on fire", calling it "ridiculous" for good measure. It is worth noting that the tweet did not even correctly indicate the numbers of the alleged fraud.
There appears to be no merit to "analysis," but it provides an excellent example of how people who are unfamiliar with the functioning of the voting apparatus - that is, almost all people not directly involved - tend to find the part of the inherently unreliable software.
Yet there is no way to count, tabulate and verify millions of ballots in hours or days after an election that doesn't rely heavily on private software tools, and is in fact highly reliable and secure. The electoral process is bipartisan and highly monitored.
Electoral commissioners and the state leadership were unanimous in declaring the election surprisingly fair, considering the difficulties of organizing one during a pandemic and with extremely high turnout both in person and by mail.
A leading federal committee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security agency today called last week's elections "the safest in American history ... There is no evidence that a voting system has canceled or lost votes, changed votes, or been in somehow compromised. We can assure you that you have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too. "
Despite allegations of fewer and fewer high-ranking people in the government, there was no evidence that there was significant election fraud or other irregularities in last week's elections, leading to the victory of the former vice president, now president. elected Joe Biden.
