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Erick appeals to facts; Trump appeals to emotion.

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Erick, would love your insight and thoughts on the SCOTUS Alito and unconstitutional PA actions, Wisconsin's unrequested absentee voting situation (also unconstitutional from what I've been reading), and our own local Stacy Abrams' group currently under investigation by GBI for seeking dead and out of state voters. That would be great.

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It is important that you keep speaking the truth, Erick. And I really admire you for it as I suspect that it does nothing for your pocketbook. Though you will probably continue to be a voice in the wilderness, you're doing important work. What you're doing matters. Both sides of the spectrum should learn from you.

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Occam's Razor (oversimplified): The simplest answer is probably the correct one. By all standards Trump lost the election. I HATE it, but that doesn't change the outcome. I read a piece by Patrick Basham about how statistically improbable Biden's win was. The problem I had with the piece was a similar article on the statistical improbability of intelligent life evolving on earth, and we all know how that one turned out.

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No one cares about truth anymore. It's a fact.

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Erick, in your next article can you please go after former good for nothing Ga. Congressman John Lewis? He continuously said the Donald J Trump was an illegitimate President yet you never called him out like you are your own. I could tell you what I thought of him, but that would only get me banned and in trouble. It’s amazing to me that when we republicans work to find the fraud and look under every stone unturned and turned we get blasted for not accepting the results of the election. When the democrats do the same thing they get the media on their side to help keep the fight going so it stains and tarnished a nominated Judge, the cabinet member, or the President for years. If you want to keep many of your listeners and $7 month Erick Erickson article junkies around may I suggest you help give us some fire power instead of the constant Debbie Downer news. Your article that exposed the incoming Biden administration’s attempt to tax rifles and magazines over 10 rounds at $200 a piece was a great example of why we need to hold the Senate. Please set aside some time and “produce a gospel track if I may,” for us that are going door to door in order to get people to the polls on Jan. the 5th. It would be the perfect text 33777 Christmas item for everyone to have and hand out to those who don’t want their God given rights to disappear.

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Thanks for this information.

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Any regrets supporting the man who is doing all he can to sow discord on the way out using lies and misinformation? Your comments are going to be full of people who are believing the lies, with “Yeah, but...” He has done and continues to do great damage to our republic all for his own benefit, mostly his immensely fragile ego.

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Dec 7, 2020Liked by Erick-Woods Erickson

I agree with everything you said, but that last sentence is very confusing. You seem to be saying that relying on experts in statistics is what people are doing instead of listening to lies. Is this what you meant??

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Thanks for the reality check.

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There are a lot of false claims of election fraud floating around. But there are also serious issues that are being investigated in all the battleground states. The GBI is now actively working to investigate various issues in GA ( https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/gbi-assisting-secretary-of-state-in-handling-election-investigations ): "Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will help the secretary of state investigate the hundreds of open cases related to the 2020 election. .. Earlier in the week, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that his office had around 250 open investigations related to the election. These elections included possible double voting, absentee ballot fraud, and other allegations."

In general, it is bad policy to allow an organization to investigate themselves. Raffensperger and the GA SS-officials have been claiming for months that the election is clean and if it is proven not to be, they will either look incompetent or corrupt, which suggests they have a conflict of interest in stopping any effort to find extensive election fraud. Consequently, they have made every effort to avoid signature verification and/or to allow a forensic analysis of voting machines. In a very real sense, if one is not allowed to evaluate the evidence, there is no reason to expect that issues with the evidence will be found.

There were cases in other states that did turn up invalid signatures. For example, in AZ "a handwriting analysis expert [was] retained to look at 1-2 percent of the 1.6 million early ballots submitted in Maricopa County, which would be 16,000 to 32,000 ballots. He also wanted access to all duplicated ballots, a number that Maricopa County election officials pegged at around 20,000.

Instead, Warner [the judge] agreed to let Ward and Wilenchik’s expert look at 100 envelopes and 100 duplicated ballots." This was later updated to add another 1526 ballots. Of these ballots, the expert found 9 errors (or .5%), of the ballots that were already counted as passing signature checks. This error rate would amount to 8K invalid ballots being counted in AZ, which is far greater than the small amount of election fraud issues that Erick is willing to admit. See these articles for details ( https://www.azmirror.com/2020/11/30/judge-allows-ward-to-examine-handful-of-ballots-in-attempt-to-overturn-election/ and https://www.azmirror.com/2020/12/03/examination-finds-maricopa-ballot-errors-didnt-affect-presidential-outcome/ ).

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Another PSA...thank you! Why I subscribe!

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