Out of the blue, a story we’ve been reporting for three months got national attention. Someone discovered when Ed Naile asked a simple question. I Assume “The Windham Scandal” Dominion Voting Machines Were Tested? Dominion, Scandal, Voting Machine. It attracted some attention.
Related: What The Heck Happened In Windham’s November Election? – Part 1
We write share and bask in the love and affection. That’s sarcasm. Republicans and Demcorats get the same treatment because we are not here for the party. We are here for the principles. Clean elections for example.
The Windham Scandal is a problem from a day, November 3rd, 2020, rife with electoral scandal and intrigue. Troll bait.
This particular troll is the typical lefty naysayer and contrarian. They only follow you to rebut everything you share. I’m good with that. Contrarians get you to think in ways you may not want, even when delivered like a burning bag of pet waste someone dropped on your doorstep.
I’m not offended; I could hardly care less. None of this gets personal for me, and it’s a hazard of the hobby.
This time around,, it was a response to a follow-up post I shared on the Windham scandal that inspired the ‘troll outreach.’ Don wrote Nov 12th?
And so what happened? Did you get this from the Gateway Pundit? That bastion of truth?
— Don (@DonWaun8) February 12, 2021
I don’t spend a lot of time at Gateway Pundit so I can’t speak to the accusation. But GP drives a ton of traffic, and other sites share the heck out of their stuff.
As with everything on the internet, including Don from Twitter, you should follow the links down the rabbit hole before you can swear by it.
“…so what happened? Did you get this from the gateway Pundit? That bastion of Truth?”
No. They got it from me.
They got it from me.https://t.co/OQeiC3TzPM
— Steve Mac Donald (@TheRealNHSteve) February 12, 2021
They did get it from me (and Ed, and the ‘Grok). And our rabbit hole leads to the exact discrepancy between the machine count on Nov 3 and the Hand recount of the State House races on Nov 12th.
The machine count is from the ‘official’ Windham poll results, the hand count from the Sec. of State’s office, witnessed by many. It happened, and it is real.
Why did it happen, and will someone get to the bottom of that? The folks tasked with resolving this in state government would prefer to let it go but activists are insisting on answers.
And how did Don respond to the revelation that I was Gateway Pundit’s source? “LOL”
So, where does a troll go next?
Readers are free to take it wherever they please but a 6% error in the results of any election in any direction is noteworthy. https://t.co/wsBjv6gIMY
— Steve Mac Donald (@TheRealNHSteve) February 12, 2021
The fact that it happened three months ago does not delegitimize the truth or the problem.
A 6% error in an election is noteworthy. Many races are won or lost by a fraction of that sum. Ignoring why 300 votes (give or take) were never ‘counted’ is (wait for it) vote suppression.
Or, a more interesting conundrum, how did a machine misread 6% of the vote on a few races from the paper ballot with at least a dozen more contests unaffected?
It is more likely that they were all affected.
If this turns out to be a systemic problem, insisting it only happened in one small NH town is unrealistic and maybe Don does not want his brain to have to go there.
Maybe it can’t.
It would be easier to discredit the discovery, dismiss the likely destination or the messenger. Don would rather get off the train than arrive at any undesireable revelation. What if someone tampered to the detriment of one party’s candidates.
It would a simpler problem if it were localised partisan malfeasance – still illegal, still actual vote suppression – and no one in power wants to learn that answer either but we mean to pursue it and we are not alone.
