So I think the "2.7 Million Votes Changed" thing is only showing errors in IBM's election results service. The data source was an NY Times "Edison" feed that was scraped, right? Edison is the name of an IBM Election service, which probably scrapes results from State/County websites and aggregates them in a way that easily consumable, and sending them out to those willing to pay for the service in real time. Very likely that Edison's election reporting has the faults in it. You'd have to prove this back from Edison to the vote tallies, which is different question.
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Edison is hooked directly into Dominion servers. this guy explains it https://youtu.be/ficae6x1Q5A
Except he doesn't talk about Edison or NEP at all, and the flow chart has Decision Desk on it, and the AP, while the Edison page specifically calls out the AP as a competitor for their Exit Polling, at least.
I'm not convinced. Possible, but I think a top level claim like that needs top level evidence, and there are all kinds of innocuous problems that can happen with a data aggregator feed.
yup, apparently Louie Gomert said they are looking into Skytl which is actually one of the sources of vote tallies delivered to state secretaries. The edison data is just potentially only a clue as to what went on behind the gateway.
My biggest problem with all of this is that votes should never be removed from a candidate, regardless if their is a hiccup on Edison’s side. At no point should a candidate get votes removed. That means something is wrong.
“The system mistakenly giving candidates votes and, therefore, removing them” should not be happening and is not a valid argument imo. Plain and simple. The votes for candidates should only increase throughout the night.
and that's where the issue is, these aren't votes, its numbers from a service that is trying to collect the latest tallies from whatever source and sell them to customers. the county website or source could have fat fingered the entry, the service aggregating the vote data might have a problem, its like a data version of a game of telephone and in the rush to report numbers as quickly as possible in real time to viewers its more prone to error.
That could be true, but we don’t know yet. That also doesn’t explain the hundreds of thousands of ballots being brought in through the back door after 8 PM.
Also, from another commenter in this thread....
“Edison is hooked directly into Dominion servers. this guy explains it https://youtu.be/ficae6x1Q5A”