To boost voter-fraud claims, Trump advocate Sidney Powell turns to unusual source

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

In her legal quest to reverse the reality of last month’s election, President Trump’s recently disavowed attorney Sidney Powell has gained a strange new ally: the longtime administrator of the message board 8kun, the QAnon conspiracy theory’s Internet home.

Powell on Tuesday filed an affidavit from Ron Watkins, the son of 8kun’s owner Jim Watkins, in a Georgia lawsuit alleging that Dominion Voting Systems machines used in the election had been corrupted as part of a sprawling voter-fraud conspiracy.

Powell has claimed that a diabolical scheme backed by global communists had invisibly shifted votes with help from a mysterious computer algorithm pioneered by the long-dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez — a wild story debunked by fact-checkers as a “fantasy parade” and devoid of proof.

No real evidence was included in Watkins’s affidavit, either. But Watkins, who said in the affidavit that he lives in Japan, nevertheless speculated that — based on his recent reading of the Dominion software’s online user guide — it may be “within the realm of possibility” for a biased poll worker to fraudulently switch votes.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/01/powell-cites-qanon-watkins/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Okay

[tclambert]

2. Dammit, I was sure it was gonna be psychics.

In a seance, the spirit of Hugo Chavez confessed to have masterminded the entire plot.

[pat_k]

3. That's coming next!

[empedocles]

9. .

[niyad]

4. Has it slipped my memory that Hugp Chavez was a noted computer programmer?

[whistler162]

8. Well he was responsible for the disaster

that befell the world on 1/1/2000 at 00:00:00:001.

[niyad]

10. Of. Course! How could I have forgotten that???

[byronius]

5. Nazi says what? I did Nazi that coming. Did anybody else Nazi that coming?

Trust the plan, Qutesies. Drink the Sacred Bleach of Justice and Inhale the Freedomy Aromas of Fake Covid.

I done heerd from a guy what lives in Japan that maybe there might just be sumthin to this 'voder frowd' thing mah pappy been done talkin bout.

Rise up, Trumpanzees, and refuse to vote in Georgia! Take yer ball and head on home. S'got a leak anyway.

Does Qanon really Nazi how this all ends?

[rpannier]

6. "within the realm of possibility" for a biased poll worker to fraudulently switch votes.

So that's how republicans won all those House and state level races

That idiotic story can be spun so many ways

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Not that unusual for Powell or Trump, just unusual for a president

Powell and Trump have relied on far right conspiracy theorists and rabble-rousers for ages.