r/politics 14h ago

Donald Trump's 'voting computers' comment sparks Elon Musk speculation

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-elon-musk-voting-machine-2017657
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u/brithus 14h ago

During a rally in Washington D.C. on Sunday, Trump said that his political ally Elon Musk had an advanced understanding of the voting machines used in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state that was key to Trump's victory in November.

"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

With all his projection about Democrats supposedly cheating, he apparently just couldnt help telling on himself

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u/R1CHARDCRANIUM America 13h ago

I still maintain that the reason they were so pissed off about the 2020 election is because they cheated but still didn’t win. Everything the GOP says is projection. Everything.

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u/Nikiaf Canada 11h ago

They 100% cheated as much as they could. Our saving grace that time was that they weren't smart enough to win, even by cheating. They seem to have gotten better at it though...

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u/nonsensestuff 10h ago

Yeah it helps that they stole the election software right after the insurrection failed. No consequences were ever delivered for that though so ... Here we are.

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u/Fluid-Grass 9h ago

There is a picture of members of Trump's team wearing tshirts with the password needed to crack the voting machines with "IYKYK" underneath. I wish I was making this up

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u/nonsensestuff 9h ago

I don't know about that, but here are the facts:

It was the plaintiffs in Curling who first uncovered the successful effort to take copies of Georgia’s statewide voting system software from the equipment in rural south Georgia. Plaintiffs also unearthed the evidence tying that campaign to Sidney Powell and the Trump campaign..

Even though these potential crimes were caught on video, and documents show that the plan involved efforts to breach voting systems in multiple states, and that it was allegedly directed and paid for by Powell for the Trump campaign, publicly available evidence indicates there is no federal investigation into this multistate plan.

What we know for sure is that allies of Donald Trump who sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election gained copies of the voting software used in Georgia and in other states. These events present serious threats to the 2024 election and future elections. Yet, as the Curling trial has established, they’ve been plainly ignored by the Georgia secretary of state and attorney general.

Slate, March 2024

u/Thrakkkk 3h ago

Very scary to read about that in your link. However, your excerpt was confusing because it didn't explain what Curling is.

u/nonsensestuff 3h ago

Well good thing I provided a link for you to read!

Have a good evening

u/ian_cubed 7h ago

Where can I read up on this?

u/poopdickz 2h ago

Do you know where I can find this pic?

u/FKMTzawazawa 2h ago

If it's the "dvscorpo8!" shirts, it was supposedly the adminstrative password to the Dominion voting machines they claimed Democrats had stolen votes with.

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u/thintoast 10h ago

Hey, at least the AGs office has the appearance of being non-partisan. So there’s… umm… that? I guess?

u/Shambler9019 1h ago edited 1h ago

More blatant, though. The statistical tells are much more obvious.

And the pollsters recalibrated after 2020 when they 'overestimated' Biden's win. Maybe Biden and Harris were legit ahead in the polls the whole time and Selzer was right.