I hope people move over here from the Timberwolves board if they're interested in having a respectful conversation about whether or not these elections were fraudulent. Again, I do think we should try to focus on that question here, and if there are other political issues you want to address, maybe you can make another thread in this forum and we can take it up there to keep things focused.
I'm going to paste some text I wrote in the other thread with some revisions in hopes that it can act as a starting point for anyone interested in having this conversation.
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One way to think about an issue is to ask yourself what evidence, if it existed, would change your mind. For me, since I believe these elections were legit, one bit of evidence that might change my mind would be if there were clear video evidence of election counters intentionally destroying many ballots that they suspected would go for Trump. This would have to be video of these ballots being destroyed before the ballots themselves were first received, because they count all the ballots they have first, then open them and see who the votes were for. So if someone destroyed ballots for Trump after opening them and seeing who the ballots were for, the count would have been off and it would have triggered red flags. Video evidence is always tricky because it can easily take something out of context, so this video evidence would have to be contextualized somehow. It should be clear who, when, and what exactly was happening and it should fit the description above. I've seen some random pics and clips that purport to show this, but all of those I've seen have been pulled out of context and some, frankly, were pretty obviously photoshopped.
If there were a contextualized video showing voter fraud though, especially if it were backed up with some testimony that a court accepted and concluded was actual voter fraud, then I'd definitely rethink my position.
Another thing that might change my mind would be if longtime, legitimate nonpartisan election organizers who were heavily involved in the election testify that they witnessed or discovered evidence of widespread voter fraud in their state. For example, if the people running these elections produced legitimate official paperwork showing a significantly higher number of ballots were taken in than the ultimate number of votes, that might indicate that someone was destroying ballots after opening them. The fact that even Republican officials who oversaw these elections like Brad Raffensperger in Georgia say that
https://apnews.com/article/trump-raffensperger-phone-call-georgia-d503c8b4e58f7cd648fbf9a746131ec9it didn't happen is evidence to me that there was no fraud. But if an unbiased official who managed or was heavily involved in these elections came out with evidence they were fraudulent, I would take that as evidence in favor of fraud having happened.
Similarly, if the FBI were to discover evidence of voter fraud and bring it to light through criminal charges, then I'd also be open to changing my mind. Bill Barr already said there was no evidence, but he did resign (to protest Trump's refusal to accept the validity of the election) so if the FBI discovered evidence of widespread fraud after Barr resigned that he didn't see that led to charges, then I'd definitely start second-guessing myself.
If legitimate mainstream news organizations reported evidence of widespread voter fraud, that would also totally start to change my mind. I know there was a long thread on the Timberwolves blog that showed some deep skepticism of the media, and I don't doubt that everybody has their biases, but most news organizations still have a lot of professional journalists and rely on fact-checking. Honestly, even if Fox News reported they found evidence of widespread voter fraud, I'd think twice. Their opinion people (Hannity, Tucker, Ingraham) have all raised questions but the news section at Fox, the journalists who go out, report based on evidence, and are fact-checked, has not reported any voter fraud. If they actually did that, and especially if more boring, mainstream news organizations like the AP reported evidence of voter fraud, then I'd definitely start to change my mind.
My question for those who think the elections were rigged is the same. What evidence, if it existed, would change your mind? I posed some reasons why I think the elections were clean on page 1 of Cool's USA Today thread on the Timberwolves board--the court cases Trump lost due to lack of evidence, the fact that the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear the Texas case, Bill Barr's declaration there was no fraud, the many Republican senators and politicians (not just Bush and Cheney but now including McConnell, Graham, and Pence) who have accepted Biden and the Democrats won, the fact that many of these elections were managed by Republicans and all have said there was no fraud, etc. I'm curious what you guys think of them. Does that make you second-guess yourself? If not, what evidence, if it existed, would make you think maybe the elections were not stolen?"