I'll post this as well - for the record, so to speak, - in the MR Reports thread.
However, I have reported this thread started by tshrimp, as I do not believe it was started in anything remotely resembling good faith:
"I wish to report this thread, as the title - and content of the posts made by the OP - are baseless, deliberately disingenuous, and downright irresponsible (given current possibly inflamed political passions) and, I suspect, may be intended to ensure that this subject matter gains traction online, and serves to undermine voter or public confidence what is an already extremely fraught political environment.
I am writing this - rather, reporting this - as someone who has observed - and reported on - and analysed elections internationally since 1996; in that time, I have observed over 25 elections across three continents - working with both the OSCE and the EU - some in a very senior capacity, such as when I served in Afghanistan (in 2013 and 2014) as a political counsellor (and accredited diplomat) with one of the two EU missions in the country, and later (2017-2018) when I served in Somalia in a similar diplomatic role with a special responsibility to report on the elections in those countries and surrounding regions.
As such, I would be regarded as an expert on elections, and am intimately familiar with electoral fraud, such as how to identify it, recognise it, verify it, report it, while also calling out those who enable and facilitate it.
In response to the OP, I have suggested - twice (and linked to the relevant report twice) that he consult a reputable, respectable, credible and recognised source when starting a thread that purports to discuss electoral fraud.
While posting arrant and unsubstantiated nonsense, he refuses to read a report, - claiming that he has insufficient time - published yesterday, by the most reputable international body (apart from the EU, and the Carter Centre, both of which are widely respected in this field) in the field of international election observation that is operating in the US at the moment, the OSCE/ODIHR.
The OSCE ODIHR (ODIHR is the Human Rights and election monitoring/reporting/observing arm of the OSCE) have had an EOM (Election Observation Mission) - by invitation - in the US since August of this year.
During the course of the election, they have issued an interim report, and yesterday, they published a preliminary report - "preliminary statement of findings" - which, while it makes clear that they have concerns (and criticisms), also makes abundantly clear that the issue of fraud does not arise in these elections.
While the actual action of posting such a thread in current conditions, and in the present perfervid political atmosphere, strikes me as exceptionally irresponsible, to deliberately post assertions from discredited sources, while refusing to substantiate such allegations, and to fail to offer anything by way of proof in support of this, while simultaneously, to refuse to engage with, or accept, or even read, reputable independent sources that make a nonsense of his (or her) claims, is, I believe, counter to forum rules.
However, to refuse to read - on the grounds of "no time" when there was clearly sufficient time to post arrant (and manifestly untrue) nonsense from sources that are, frankly, not credible - to refuse to read a reputable (and internationally respected) report, a report which will have an influence on how the international community regards this election, is disrespectful, and discourteous, in the extreme, and may also run contrary to the forum rules for debate.
Moreover, I fail to see - notwithstanding the First Amendment - how permitting this platform to be used to peddle such irresponsible assertions (given that the OP is unable or unwilling to support them) can, in any way, enhance either the platform generally, or its political section, more specifically.
Sincerely,
S"