Hope you watched and read the whole thing and not just the cut up version. That's taken out of context pretty badly. Like all things Trump, he does say dumb things. However, literally every time he talks about "finding" votes, it's in the context of the 24k votes that his team has labeled illegal, either because they were dead, out of state, duplicates, etc. He's not telling Raffensburger to manufacture votes. He's telling him to look at what his team has presented to see if it's true, which is rejected by Raffensburger under the pretense his numbers are wrong. Then, Trump asked Raffensburger to share the data in question and he says they can't do that either. I get protecting voter's anonymity, but that has to be balanced against having a transparent election. Trump's team should already have the names. It shouldn't be hard to examine and verify whether or not his accusations are correct or not. They are clearly using different records, but which one is more accurate? It should be Raffensburger, but how do any of us know?

Basically, there is a group with institutional control that is asking Trump to trust them, which, by default includes us. I don't know why this is acceptable. Anyone affected by a policy like this would feel it's conspiratorial. This could be solved by allowing a challenger a team that can view the official state records, compare against public information, then verify whether or not which one is accurate. If it's still in dispute after the fact, it should be heard in court and only the cases in question can be made public with redacted names. Again, for the record, I am way more anti-progressive than I am anything else. I don't care if Trump gets in or not. I care whether or not our system has safeguards that protect it from a government that is increasingly overreaching and unaccountable.

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