A Plea.

[pmb]

Despite my disappointment at the outcome of this election, what is most important to me is that the people have at least nominally spoken. The election has been held, and we support the system, even if we do not support the winner. At all.

To that end, if faith in the system is lost, then all is lost. Because you can't fix anything within a broken system. So please, please, PLEASE, someone tell me where the fault in this graph lies. Because I desperately want to believe that he actually won. The alternative is too awful.

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[pmb.livejournal.com]

Absolutely true as far as an audit trail goes.

But those graphs being a hoax? Not at all - as long as I can get my greasy hands on raw exit poll data and on the reported totals in each state and county, then I could reproduce them. What I really need to make myself "happy" about this election would be raw exit poll data (or at least "un-touched-up", because they started combining exit polls and actual vote data at the end there) as well as the reported totals in each county. Then, if I could not reproduce that graph, I would put it down to some random lefty angst causing someone to lie and use bad data. Otherwise it remains convincing evidence of a stolen election. Which I do not want at all.