'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Gets Schooled On Election Security

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Tright here’s a cause we’re dealing with the very actual chance that Donald Trump will, as soon as once more, be the president of the US in 2024. Republicans have the benefit of interesting to individuals who don’t know issues.

They will inform their constituents that unlawful immigrants are inflicting crime to surge as a result of they know their followers gained’t do the naked minimal analysis it might take to know there haven’t been any surges in crimes within the cities most migrants have come to, and, the truth is, in lots of these cities, crime charges have fallen. It’s the identical cause Republicans can persuade their voters that vital race concept is the Satan’s bible with out demonstrating that they know something about CRT or explaining why they simply began speaking about it in 2020 when the framework has existed in academia since 1989.

And, after all, Trump and the GOPropagandists have efficiently satisfied the MAGA world that voter fraud price Trump the 2020 election, and that elections within the U.S. are usually insecure with out offering a shred of proof that any of that’s true.

This brings us to Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator who tied a noose across the neck of his profession when he suggested white individuals to steer clear of Black individuals all due to a right-wing survey through which a small pattern measurement of Black individuals did not reply within the affirmative a loaded query about whether or not “it’s OK to be white.”

Scott Adams took to X to remind us how gullible he’s and the way straightforward it’s to persuade individuals of issues after they willfully ignore demonstrable info.

“We will disagree on whether or not there may be proof the 2020 election was rigged,” Adams tweeted Monday. “However can all of us agree our election methods will not be totally auditable and plenty of stuff goes ‘lacking’ the day after the election?”

“Our system will not be designed for us to realize it labored or didn’t work,” he continued. “That’s not an accident.”

Adams is actually doing the “comply with disagree” runaround that ignorant individuals on the web use to deflect from the truth that they don’t know what they’re speaking about. We completely can decide that there’s no “proof the 2020 election was rigged” as a result of, 4 years later, none has been offered, and just about the entire completely debunked allegations made have resulted within the accusers drowning in defamation lawsuits.

To be honest, it was a Republican who tried to highschool Adams on his nonsense about how “our election methods will not be totally auditable.” Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer responded to Adams with info that the sketch creator predictably rejected blindly.

“Hello Scott! Huge fan of your work (minus the racist stuff after all),” Richer started. “No election is ideal. And no election administrator would ever declare an ideal election. However U.S. elections are literally designed to be auditable; they should be reconciled; and so they should be examined.”

“For instance, whereas some international locations enable digital voting (e.g. Brazil) and even web voting (e.g. Estonia), the huge, overwhelming majority of U.S. jurisdictions (93%) use paper ballots,” he continued. “This could put to relaxation any allegation of hacking. This could put to relaxation any allegation of “vote switching.” This implies there may be an auditable paper path that may be examined after the election.”

Scott Adams principally hit Richer with the “I ain’t studying all that” response earlier than persevering with to reveal how little he is aware of about how elections work, which Richer responded to by persevering with to waste his bandwidth on somebody who would relatively stay ignorant.

Adams additionally seems to be unaware that just about each research has proven that voter fraud in America is extraordinarily uncommon. Hell, whereas Trump was nonetheless president, he launched a voting integrity fee, which he swiftly disbanded after they failed to search out any proof of widespread voter fraud.

Richer additionally famous to Adams that dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Courtroom joined the former head of election cybersecurity, Trump’s personal lawyer normal and the Division of Justice in figuring out that there was no proof of a rigged election.

“I’m certain you’re conscious that have been many, many authorized challenges to the November 2020 election — near 100 by my final depend,” Richer wrote. “Many of those afforded evidentiary hearings. For a abstract, see this report. For anybody claiming vital error or fraud within the 2020 election, that individual must clarify why the courts acquired it incorrect, each single time. Or why plaintiffs persistently demurred when requested for proof in court docket.”

Once more, Richer was just about losing his digital breath on Scott Adams and others like him who’ve by no means met an inconvenient reality they didn’t they didn’t need to flush down the “woke” rest room.

It’s pathetic, but it surely’s additionally the ignorance that can put a buffoon again in workplace.