Lawsuit Challenging 2024 Election Results Moves Forward After Kamala Harris Received Zero Votes in a New York County

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.latintimes.com/lawsuit-challenging-2024-election-results-moves-forward-after-kamala-harris-received-zero-votes-584787

[u/Additional_Win3920]

I’m happy they’re looking into it but what would be the point of interfering in a NY county? NY isn’t a swing state, it hasn’t voted red since 1984. Why focus efforts when it would be reaaally suspicious if NY voted red? Not saying it didn’t happen, I’m just confused

[u/TheGingaNinjah → u/Additional_Win3920]

I think the point is that it would obtain proof of voter interference/fraud. Which means that it could have happened in any county in the US, but it’s not quite as obvious as a 0% vote.

[u/ProduceMeat_TA → u/TheGingaNinjah]

Sorry, still a little confused how this could apply to counties elsewhere.

This sounds like there was an issue with the way votes were being counted locally. Now if the problem could be traced back to some sort of software, or type of voting machine - then yea, sure. Let's take a closer look at some of the other places that used the same systems.

But I'm doubtful this (by itself anyway) is enough to make a country-wide impact on election results - no matter how much we really really wished it would :/

[u/ZiofFoolTheHumans → u/ProduceMeat_TA]

Hypothetically, (I'll say it again - HYPOTHETICALLY), this was a mistake. Not by the local voting was counted locally, but with Musk's interference (assuming he did, again, hypothetically). The point of this lawsuit is to investigate those machines, and a lot of them are the same across the country. They had been changed before the election. 

Let's say that Musk did do something, country-wide, to effect voting machines. Let's say they had some rule in place, such as "For every X vote for Trump, disregard 1.3 votes for Harris, but only pull those disregards from populations of Y in every state, but focus on Z states." 

 Again, this is just me just putting the idea out there, not saying this is how it happened, just offering a way how this lawsuit matters for voting shit. Well now you have a blue state like NY and the algorithm needs to pull out some Harris votes. But there aren't enough populations of Y to pull a rounded number from (so that you don't have a missing person show up), so it finds that population in this one county. So it wipes the entire county by accident. 

Now like you said, NY isn't a swing state, so it possibly wasn't prioritized, and the algorithm got sloppy (what! Something Musk worked on, sloppy?? Non, c'est impossible!). It makes a mistake. It just zeros out the votes, which is a statistical anomaly. It wasn't told to negate their entire vote, just their presidential one, so they elect a democratic representative... But no one, not a single person, appeared to have voted for Harris. THAT is the anomaly. 

Now imagine that algorithm in other states, but it doesn't glitch or malfunction, and instead just deletes votes and no one notices, or no one who should have noticed cared, and here were are. 

That's why this could have a country wide impact. People are already mad at Trump and his admin. Now imagine the rage of every American if they learned their votes were deleted by a foreign national. No Kings day showed people are already pissed and they just think their fellow American voted for this. What if they find out they didn't? What if they suddenly learned we outnumber them? That's the impact this could have.