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A legal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 election is moving forward.

The lawsuit, brought by SMART Legislation, the action arm of SMART Elections, a nonpartisan watchdog group, filed the lawsuit over voting discrepancies in Rockland County, New York.

Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court ruled in open court in May that the allegations were serious enough for discovery to proceed.

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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago

So many folks have in Rockland, NY have signed affidavits saying they voted for an independent candidate for the US Senate, but the final tally from the county's Board of Elections doesn't mesh with what voters say they did.

While investigating, they uncovered hundreds of folks who voted for a Democrat for US Senate, but who didn't vote for Harris (which is generally rare).

We'll see where this shakes out, but there have been a few stories over the past several months that show some weird things like this with the election (Nevada election results statistically looking like foreign elections we know Russia meddled in, the recent questions about a software patch being rolled out at the last minute on voting machines).

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For the distant watchers of this situation:

Rockland is the smallest county in NYS by area and population. Our county is suburban and very deeply politically mixed.

We "host" a large ultra-orthodox community that is mostly known through news articles concerning the East Ramapo school district. Look that up...

Voting irregularities have been suspected for years. This is just a validation of these questions finally reaching the courts.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

So this is

a) not going to change anything

b) not something that could have been used in thousands of other counties at scale to change the final result

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

If this is the one I'm thinking of, trump got like 532 votes and KH got 0. That is genuinely hard to believe. There are things online saying the Hasidic Jewish community all votes together, but I find it hard to believe there wasn't a single non Hasidic Jewish person voting for Harris in an area where the Democrats won the Senate vote.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Well, if other pressure puts the current administration into a retreat, this kind of thing can become the template to overturn a lot of stuff. Maybe?

[–] Washedupcynic@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

There is lots of Medicaid fraud among those communities you speak of.