Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene "likes" the Mossad-did-it Theory

On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 9:12:20 AM UTC-5, John Corbett wrote:

> These laws don't prevent anyone from voting. They are reasonable measures 
> to ensure that the people who are voting are entitled to do so.

Does cutting back on the hours that the polls are open - closing earlier - 
facilitate voting security? No! It'll cause less people to vote.

Does limiting the number of days that early voting occurs facilitate 
voting security? No! It'll cause less people to vote.

Does not having the polls open on Sunday - when, historically, many black 
voters head to polls after church - facilitate voting security? No! It'll 
cause less people to vote.

Does removing or limiting the number of ballot drop boxes facilitate 
voting security? No! It'll cause less people to vote.

Does prohibiting the mailing of unsolicited absentee ballots facilitate 
voting security? No! It'll cause less people to be to vote.

You are probably just focusing on the ID requirements and ignoring all 
these other restrictions.

Instead of celebrating record turnout in a nation that typically has 
dismal turnouts, the Republicans realize their only hopes of winning are 
to reduce the number of people who vote and to make it particularly more 
challenging for people of color.

Here is a statistical analogy that is driving the Republican effort.

Let's say I had a special coin that when I flip it, instead of a 50/50 
chance of it landing heads or tails, it has a 60% chance of being a heads 
and a 40% chance of being a tails. Let's say you can only win if it's a 
tails. You're at a distinct disadvantage. Given that disadvantage, which 
method would you prefer in determining a winner: 1) the best of 100 flips 
or 2) the best of ONE flip? Statistically, the odds are the same. But, 
which would you prefer?

You would take method #2, of course! The greater the number of flips, the 
more likely the statistically advantage of 60% will solidify whereas a 
single flip, although statistically the same, will tend to be a more 
random event because there isn't enough data for the 60% advantage to real 
manifest itself.

Further, let's say we didn't know that the coin was biased 60/40. Let's 
say we just assume that it's a 50/50 coin. Whatever result we get with one 
flip will always seem fair. But, with 100 flips, it will readily become 
apparent that there is something "wrong" with that coin.

The Republicans realize they can only win with quirks in the electoral 
system. They are relying on those quirks. That's why they want the coin 
flipped as few times as possible because they KNOW that the coin is biased 
against them. In other words, they know there are more Democratic voters 
than Republican voters. They also have a good idea of the some of the key 
Democratic demographics that can be particularly targeted.

David Emerling
Memphis, TN