These points were addressed in the video and the arguments sounded reasonable to me, plus they came from someone with legit credentials, not a conspiracy quack. It was 55 minutes long, so did you get to watch it all?
If, what if, possibly, could be... but no was.
I think we all know that every system that is sold commercially for use can be hacked. The big thing is, you have to have physical access to the hardware in question. And that is a totally different matter of vulnerability.
As for here in Texas... those devices are not hooked up to the internet during the election process. They are manually updated with any new code that is delivered direct from the vendor, generally using a read-only media.
For watching it.. nope, I've read enough actual technical data generated from the various lawsuits and by multitude of qualified professionals to know that claims of them being hacked and used to change votes were histronics at their worst. It has been known for years that some of the MAGA idiots grabbed code and uploaded it. But guess what. That code has not been top-secret for years.
It has been known that there were security faults in the software also from audits. But those only come into play when those devices were hooked up to a public network or they were stored/used in direct contravention of the instructions and professional advice. That will happen with any piece of hardware. That's readily apparent by the continuous hacks that still occur of large companies networks.
I don't understand why the Dems and the left leaning YouTube channels like BTC were all so keen to just roll over and accept the result at face value, tbh. This point was addressed in the video, too.
Main reason is you can't have claimed the machines and voting was secure when your candidate won then claim they aren't when they lose. That's referred to as hypocrisy.
It remains that to me, how someone can achieve a clean sweep across the board on razor thin margins is so unlikely that it's very suspicious and needs further investigation
And to me it doesn't. Honestly, the Democrats (looking at Biden specifically here) did not give Harris enough time to get her "personality" and positions out there. She did herself no favors when she was directly asked if she would have done anything different than what Biden had done and she said no. So people assumed she stood for the same old song and dance as they probably felt what she said was the actual truth and the other things she was saying was to get votes. And many folks were tired of Biden's song & dance.
And that was a poor comment to make because of that. Even though numbers show that inflation trending downward and we were supposed to be better off now than 2 years ago, the people simple were not feeling it where it was important.... their pocketbook. Interest rates continued to climb, causing higher minimum monthly payments and many live off credit cards and making the minimum monthly payments. Gas prices (both liquid and natural) were still outrageously high when you consider that we were generating more fossil fuels than ever before. So not only were the voters getting hit from filling their gas tank, they were getting hit from keeping their houses cool in an abnormally warm spring/summer period for electricity. People were unable to afford a house because the interest rates (and prices) were so high. Rent steadily climbed due to housing shortages. Yet the Democrats were trying to say that the public was better off... when the public really wasn't feeling it.
Many people vote based upon their real life experiences. It does no good to tell them "Hey, the numbers say things are looking better" when their numbers (what they are having to pay) show just the opposite.
I was hopeful that she could pull it off... but honestly was doubtful because Biden's long time stance (which she was saddled with by association) was the opposite what a large number of Americans were concerned with. Not the economy as a paper theory, but what they actually had to pay. And the fact that yes, illegal migration did jump during the Biden term. Now, did that cause all the issues that the Republicans commented on? Nope, but it only takes a few "big news" stories of an illegal immigrant killing a citizen to set folks off. It is the perception and not the actual numbers that people are concerned with.
The other issue you had was complacency amongst the Democrats. Many felt that they didn't need to go vote because surely nobody of any common sense would vote for Trump. Then, and this is sad to say, you had a certain segment of younger black youth that did not want to see a strong black female in office because she had talked "down" to them historically.
