DNYUZ: Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook spent years preparing to ward off any tampering on its site ahead of November’s presidential election. Now the social network is getting ready in case President Trump interferes once the vote is over.
Employees at the Silicon Valley company are laying out contingency plans and walking through postelection scenarios that include attempts by Mr. Trump or his campaign to use the platform to delegitimize the results, people with knowledge of Facebook’s plans said.
Facebook is preparing steps to take should Mr. Trump wrongly claim on the site that he won another four-year term, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Facebook is also working through how it might act if Mr. Trump tries to invalidate the results by declaring that the Postal Service lost mail-in ballots or that other groups meddled with the vote, the people said.
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WNU Editor: In the last election the US main stream media's narrative was that it was Trump who was going to object to the result. It did not happen. Now they are saying the same thing again, using Facebook to justify this claim. Are people buying it? We shall see.
As to what is my take on mail-in ballots. I live in Canada and how the elections are run here are the complete opposite on what is being done in the US. Over here it is simple, accurate, quick, and never in doubt. You get a notice in the mail a month before the election that you are on the election roll. If you are not, and there is always a lot of advertising to advise you what to do if you are not, you go and get yourself registered with proof that you live at an address. A week before the election voters have the opportunity to vote early. Bring Picture-ID and the notice that you received in the mail that you are on the voting roll. Same thing on election day. Bring picture ID and your notice. If no notice, no problem, bring picture ID. All our ballots are the same. You use a pencil and put an X in a round circle on who you want to vote for. When the polls close the ballots are collected, and representatives from all political parties are present to make sure the vote is done accurately. Within a few hours we know who won. In the US, instead of making it simple and idiot proof, we have chaos. Ballot harvesting, mass sending of mail-in ballots, punch cards, electronic machines reading ballots, etc. etc. etc.. What a mess. And you cannot help but think this is being done deliberately. President Trump is right about mail-in ballots. The opportunity for fraud is massive. This blog has already documented on how unreliable mail-balloting is .... Will Mail-In Voting Turn U.S. Election Day Into Election Week? (May 29, 2020). My prediction. There is going to be chaos in some elections. Like a candidate easily winning when the votes are counted from the polling booth, but mail-ballots completely reversing the result.
