What Is The Best Solution To SHOW People The Truth?

Could it be a *re-vote*?

Would that even be legal?

Why would anyone want that?

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First I'll present the evidence that it's been floated and what if any legal precedent may exist.

As in the above tweet, Trump floated this idea in his recent 46-minute speech re. the election integrity, but also says it'd be inappropriate.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-election-revote-supreme-court-video-b1765429.html

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Gen. Flynn recently shared a link suggesting the need for "limited martial law" in order to "hold a new election".

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/12/02/calls-for-martial-law-and-us-military-oversight-of-new-presidential-elections-draws-criticism/

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Gen. Flynn recently shared a link suggesting the need for "limited martial law" in order to "hold a new election". https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/12/02/calls-for-martial-law-and-us-military-oversight-of-new-presidential-elections-draws-criticism/3/
Gen. Flynn recently shared a link suggesting the need for "limited martial law" in order to "hold a new election". https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/12/02/calls-for-martial-law-and-us-military-oversight-of-new-presidential-elections-draws-criticism/3/
Trump also floated this idea in another race over the summer:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510356-trump-suggests-revote-maloneys-ny-primary-amid-slow-ballot-count

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"Nobody knows what's happening."

Trump brings up a great point that has been niggling away at me since this whole mess came to be:

How do you know the real results when they've been turned into such a disaster?

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Sure we can forensically audit the D_____n machines and perhaps get a more realistic tally but who will trust it?

We can throw out ballots that were illegal, but how do we make sure we get all the the right ones?

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Has the well not been effectively poisoned from ever really knowing precisely accurate results?

(Maybe there's a way I'm missing...)

Is a re-vote a good solution?

Would it even be legal?

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Here's an article from 2017 from 538 when they were decrying the 2016 election a fraud of foreign interference (as was probably actually the case this year).

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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-if-the-election-was-a-fraud-the-constitution-doesnt-say/
Per that article (and accurately so), the Constitution leaves the administration of votes and adjudicating their outcomes primarily to the state.

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So have states used revotes as remedies in similar situations?

Yes.

Here's a 2008 case out of Illinois involving questionable results in which the IL supreme court upheld a revote:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-07-13-0207130250-story.html

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Here's another one out of from 2003 out of Indiana, this time involving fraud, in which the judge said the original voting process was "perverted".

(seems familiar to me...)

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https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/high-court-orders-new-e-c-election/article_635a143b-1840-5ddc-be72-aad7250b06d7.html
This one is my favorite: a revote upheld by the Connecticut Supreme Court involving a voting machine with a "mechanical defect" with a *statistically impossible* result.

Sound familiar?

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ct-supreme-court/1161938.html

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So there's your precedent (and those aren't even all of them).

I haven't come across any instances where a revote was ordered and then struck down under similar circumstances. (Although they certainly may exist.)

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Another note re: the last CT case mentioned...

the voting machine only "malfunctioned" in 1 district, but the courts ordered a full revote for the race in question across the city.

Will a similar argument be made for states with some problem areas and not in others?

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So if there is precedent, why is this a desirable solution?

The obvious reason is that it allows for a fair election if paper ballots and proper observers are allowed.

The results would be unquestionable, and Trump would win in a landslide (I guarantee it.)

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The other and perhaps even better reason, is that it would be a massive friggin red pill shoved into the public's otherwise low information diet.

Think about it: the legacy press would HAVE to cover it.

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Even if the period to get it done was only a week, what better time to drop more from:

O_gate
The Laptop from Hell
More election integrity pills
etc. etc. etc.

More truth bombs, with more eyes on.

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It would be quite the show.

All that said, I have no idea if it will go down like that. I just wanted to share my thoughts as I couldn't get them out of my head.

Thanks for listening and sharing yours as you see fit.

Whatever is coming...NOTHING will stop it.

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