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Do vote counts for Joe Biden in the 2020 election violate Benford's Law?
Benford's Law is a statistical rule that says that the distribution of digits in real-world numerical datasets tends to follow a specific pattern. It is often used to test whether an election is legitimate or phoney, by comparing the frequency of…
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Is Stack Exchange the only major network where moderators are democratically elected?
The Stack Exchange 2015 Year in Review blog post claims:
After five years of democratically electing moderators, it’s mind blowing that Stack Exchange is still the only major network that embraces this form self-governance. It’s a strategic…
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Did US corporations pay demonstrators in the German demonstrations against article 13?
One of the governing parties of Germany - the CDU/CSU - claimed on Twitter that American corporations "bought" demonstrators at the recent demonstrations against article 13:
Wenn amerikanische Konzerne mit massivem Einsatz von Desinformationen und…
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Did the DNC claim in court that it has no obligation to have a fair and impartial primary?
Some supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders have brought a class action case against the Democratic National Committee. They allege that the DNC unfairly favored Hillary Clinton during the Democratic Primaries, despite the DNC charter requiring them…
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Did Barack Obama receive 108% of the vote in one Ohio county?
"Recount the election!" is the 4th most popular petition at whitehouse.gov. It has 69,588 signatures (as of Jan 30, 2012).
As justification for the petition, the creator writes:
In one county alone in Ohio, which was a battleground state, President…
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Is Israel the only "Free and Democratic" country in the Middle East?
I read a lot about the State of Israel being the only Free and Democratic country in the Middle East:
John McCain:
This is really the worst situation by far that any of us have seen as far as U.S.-Israel relations. The only … free and democratic…
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Was the 2010 Polish presidential Tu-154 plane crash set up?
In 2010, a plane crash killed many top Polish officials. It occurred over Russian soil, and involved an aircraft carrying many politicians and military officials with a strong opposition towards the Russian government, which is known to be dishonest…
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Was there an electoral fraud during the referendum for the independance of Scotland?
Peter Moore, a francophone Canadian Youtuber, says in a Youtube video that there was an electoral fraud during the referendum about the independance of Scotland.
Given the ballot paper looked like this…
…two main arguments are used by Peter Moore…
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Did Muammar al-Gaddafi have 95% popular support even when he was being overthrown
I just watched The illuminati Exposed By Muammar Gaddafi on YouTube. It was very interesting, but at one point they said that there was a pro-Gaddafi rally in the Tripoli with 1.7 million people or 95% of Tripoli. This rally occured during the civil…
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Did Libya's Central Bank offer loans at 0% interest?
I just watched The illuminati Exposed By Muammar Gaddafi. It's a really good watch (especially for us skeptics), but at one point they said that the reason Muammar al-Gaddafi was overthrown was, not because he was a bad, unpopular or corrupt leader…
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Did Ayn Rand use the term "ineptocracy"?
"Ineptocracy" as can be googled today is a certain criticism of democracy. One book (titled Far-Right Fantasy: A Sociology of American Religion and Politics) seems to say that Ayn Rand used the term:
an anecdotal defamation of moochers and takers,…
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Has a famine ever taken place in a functioning democracy?
Nobel winning economist, Amartya Sen has said:
"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a
functioning democracy," he wrote in "Democracy as Freedom"
(Anchor, 1999)
Source: Does Democracy Avert Famine?
My question: Is…
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Are these anomalies in the Biden-Trump vote data indicative of voter fraud?
Twitter user, @APhilosophae, with 24K followers, recently published a Twitter thread detailing an analysis of voting patterns in the recent US presidential election.
They argue that most states the proportion of votes between Trump and Biden…
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Did voter registration rates exceed 100% in many counties for the 2020 US election? Did this lead to voter fraud?
Judicial Watch* reported in October 2020 that 353 U.S. Counties in 29 States with Voter Registration Rates Exceeding 100%.
Judicial Watch announced today that a September 2020 study revealed that 353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered…
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Were there 1 million fraudulent votes in the 2012 US election?
According to this article: (emphasis mine)
But now, for the very first time, comes concrete proof that massive voter fraud might have taken place in the 2012 election, sufficiently widespread to have tainted more than 1 million votes…
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