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Interestingly, a website set up to document voter fraud by Mike 'My Pillow' Lindell has collected hundreds of election law violations, many in Colorado. For some reason they are all dated for the future though. Might be a warning signal about not populating your database where the public can watch you doing it.

https://archive.ph/smlSQ (capture of https://electionnexus.com from earlier today)

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Same guy has been running a $14.88 promotion for a month (14/88 is a recognised US far-right symbol: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488)

The ADL is a joke of an organization. Professional bullies.

This is just a Q-anon level conspiracy theory.

The ADL has a database full of “hate symbols” that nobody uses or some random person on the internet used one time. It’s a joke and the ADL uses it to bully other groups and people into silence.

Do you also believe Walmart is marketing chocolate cookies to hate groups or is the price an unfortunate coincidence when they do it?

https://www.walmart.com/ip/President-s-Choice-The-Decadent-C...

How many products does Walmart sell, though? I don't think they advertise on 'right side broadcast network', which also inexplicably advertises 'Trump combat knives' during his rallies.

You can't accuse something of being a dog whistle only when Person A says it, but not Person B. It either is or isn't. To do otherwise would be applying a double standard.

I feel like you're missing their point. The person you're replying to made a convincing argument that differentiates Person A and Person B by considering the fraction of products sold and how that affects the probability of the null hypothesis (using that price by chance). That's not a double standard.

Well, I'm not the person who posted about it in the first place, but on their behalf I disagree. There's a rather obvious difference between between a retailer who sells many thousands of products (where pricing decisions are made across broad categories and likely automated) and one that just markets a single product.

I don't think Lindell is a nazi, but I also don't feel sorry for him for having to fend off such accusations, since he is an enthusiastic trafficker in conspiracy theories in his own right. He could make the non-troversy go away any time by changing the price to some similar number, but probably sees it as free advertising.

Appears as $14.83 to me...

He’s also selling pillow cases for $24.98. Which secret hate symbol is that one?

Is the site satire? There's basically no information of each "incident" aside from the state and a bunch of hashtags.

No it's his real site afaik. I'm guessing they put in some fake data for testing purposes but are not very competent. I'd hate to think that they were just making shit up.

Then you don't know anything about the election denier and liar that is Mike.

I don't know why this is down voted. The dude has 0 credibility and is for sure making things up.

Because a decent chunk of America is in a performative cult.

It seems more likely that this is just test data, based on the time being the exact same for all of the datapoints and there being a currently null column for “post url”, suggesting that these will all be sourced to a social media post which at least significantly increases the complexity of faking it, especially when there are bound to be plenty of posts claiming incidents.

That would support Colorado having a robust system then and we shouldn't be concerned just like the SoS says. If their system was bad, they wouldn't be catching the voter fraud.

The article isn't clear whether they self reported or were made aware. The affidavit mentioned someone reported they had accessed the passwords multiple times before it was taken down. Seems to me someone reported it to the GOP.

That’s quite weird. Specifically to the BIOS password story, nearly every county has a dusty ol computer on that list. These appear to be backup systems revived on-demand.

More likely something like hand-rolling timezone conversion code.

I think the timestamp column is straight up broken. I checked the first and last few pages and they all have the same timestamp.

No, it's weirder than that. All the samples I pulled up had the same date and time without showing any time zone information: 2024-11-03 01:43:25

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