https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1329886440449138689?s=20
Why do people keep aquiring information from uncredited sources? Once again I'll explain why believing everything you see/hear leaves a mind corrupted.
When people look at something for the first time, they don't have a proper reference for what is normal, and their intuition leads them astray. We have many people looking at elections closely for the first time this year, many poll watchers who don't know what they're looking at, as opposed to poll workers, who have been trained and often have experience.
And then you get fake "authorities" producing youtube videos manufacturing outrage by showing you something they claim is not normal when they don't really know themselves, and don't care.
I think what might help is if local TV stations or newspapers did reports on what exactly happened to the local ballots: how were they stored, transported, processed, and what are the paper trails protecting the counts. If everyone thought about how their own vote was secured, that might help ground people.
A huge part of populism and/or conspiracy theories involves fake claims about things that happen far away that you can't check (and that often contradict everyday experience you actually have); it makes everyone feel terrible and insecure.
In every venue, there are poll workers from both parties. In every state, there are hundreds and thousands of them. If the was a conspiracy to steal the vote, surely there would be some poll workers testifying in court by now. But instead, we have the Trump campaign begging for witnesses. This suggests there aren't any, and that suggests there wasn't anything shady to witness..
I think also you can lose perspective by looking at these media numbers. The race is not decided by the media, it's decided by the number of electors that come from the states, which is based on the final numbers that are certified by the states. Those numbers are subject to bipartisan examination, audits, and recounts and are the actual results.
The numbers that guy listed are from hour-by-hour (and sometimes minute-by-minute) updates of data that is desperately being acquired as quickly as possible. The numbers do not represent the FINAL OUTCOME. Due to the various different ways counties report data this is a partly manual process, and mistakes are made, then later corrected.
But the final result comes from pieces of paper that can be verified and recounted.
Ultimately, the problem here is a lack of information about where the numbers a coming from, and what factors into them. How often do counties issue a correction? What actually happened at the various points on this graph? The people collecting this data have the capability to explain this issue (and quite possibly already have). While it may not seem important, things like this become the foundation of long-lasting conspiracy theories, and really needs to be addressed to prevent it from creating harm in the future.
No fraud. Come on, people.