Dominion says OAN's 'expert mathematician' who claimed to prove election fraud had a job 'setting up swing sets'
By: jshamsian@insider.com (Jacob Shamsian) 20 hrs ago (MSN)
Kavika posted a comment about this earlier but I thought it deserved its own seed...especially in Sinners and Buttheads where we don't take a damn thing seriously...except trolls
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- In January, One America News Network presented an "expert mathematician" in an interview.
- The "expert" claimed to have uncovered evidence that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.
- He was a swing set installer on Long Island at the time of the interview, a Dominion lawsuit says.
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The right-wing media organization One America News Network presented a Long Island swing-set installer as an "expert mathematician" who claimed to uncover evidence that the 2020 election was rigged, a new lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems says.
OAN's Christina Bobb interviewed the man, Ed Solomon, on January 27 in a segment about the 2020 election, which President Joe Biden had won nearly three months earlier.
In the interview, Solomon said he conducted a mathematical analysis showing that the results in Fulton County, Georgia, "can only have been done by an algorithm." He added that the probability of Biden's victory in the county was "1 over 10 to an exponent so large there's not enough stars in the universe, there aren't enough atoms in the universe, to explain the number."
It's not clear where Solomon got his data set. Factcheck.org compared the numbers he used in his analysis with the data available from Georgia's secretary of state and found that they did not match. An audit of the ballots cast in Georgia in the 2020 election found that the results were correct.
© One America News/Dominion Voting Systems OAN said Ed Solomon was a "mathematician," when his job was installing swing sets at the time, Dominion Voting Systems said in a lawsuit. One America News/Dominion Voting Systems
Dominion's lawsuit says Solomon is not an "expert mathematician" but "was in fact a convicted felon with no college degree." The lawsuit adds that Solomon's "current job was setting up swing sets in Long Island, New York."
A spokesperson for Stony Brook University, with which Solomon said he was affiliated, previously told Factcheck.org that he took several math classes over the course of seven years at the school but never received an undergraduate degree.
A person who appeared to be Solomon was arrested in 2016 on drug-related charges and served two years in prison, Vice reported.
Dominion included these claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against OAN, alleging defamation over election conspiracy theories and seeking over $1.6 billion in damages.
Representatives for OAN didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. A Twitter account that appeared to be associated with Solomon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Dominion previously decried Solomon in a letter sent to MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell. The letter, dated February 4 and obtained by Insider, also said Solomon "is not a 'mathematician'" and that he "is currently employed as an 'Installer' at a swing set construction company." Dominion is suing Lindell, as well as a host of other entities, over conspiracy theories about the company's role in the 2020 election.
The same day, Dominion said in its lawsuit it sent a letter to OAN demanding a retraction of Bobb's interview with Solomon. OAN then took down the interview from its website but left it up on other platforms, the lawsuit said.
Dominion's lawsuit said OAN "had effectively acknowledged" the claims were false "by secretly removing several articles and broadcasts from its own website that made similar claims."
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Now I'm no math genius but I got a B in calculus
but this statement makes no damn sense:
If any of you people who took the higher math classes (more than Calc I) please tell if this makes sense or do I need to go back to school?
Maybe he learned math in jail.
Gotta count down the days...
ROFL!!!
Yeah...I guess putting all those slash lines on the wall helped him with his mutiplication
I just now thought of this: It's called infinity you brain dead moron. A real mathematician would have used that word.
TG, it makes perfect sense.
Take the number of eligible voters in Fulton County, remove the number of children who hate 'It's a Small World" in DisneyWorld, add in 1.63 pounds of high-grade cocaine, mix in 17.43 oz of brown sugar and 18.71 oz of brown liquor and shake slightly in a coconut shell, then drink down thru a straw while chewing on 3 pieces of lime. The answer will make perfect sense..
I knew someone could explain it to me!
Thanks, Snuffy
giggles walks away snorting....
You want math?:
PETERSBURG, KY (SatireWire.com) – Creationists using a deep-faith telescope said today they have discovered a galaxy formed at the very beginning of time, nearly 6,000 years ago.
The galaxy, which they named “Michael” after one of the earliest angels, is about 6,000 light years from Earth, but not more, “because light did not exist before that time,” researchers explained.
The team’s discovery was immediately condemned by the American Astronomical Society, which said “Michael” is actually the Andromeda galaxy, which formed 9 billion years ago. In response, Bertram Hill, lead theophysicist at the subbasement Creation Science Observatory in Kentucky, said, “No it isn’t” and called the debate a tie.
Hill and his colleagues made their observations using a specially designed Deep Faith Creationist Telescope, which is a standard wide-field, Ritchey–Chrétien hyperbolic telescope, but with the lens cap on. From there, calculating the age of Michael, and the Universe itself, was simple, Hill said.
“We know this galaxy is about 6,000 years old because we know the Universe is 6,000 years old, and we know that because, contrary to what non-believers say, we’ve done the math,” said Hill. “Specifically, we’ve taken the ‘supposed’ age of the Universe – 13 billion years – and multiplied it by .000046, which gives us, as we suspected, the true age of 6,000.”
But why multiply the age of the Universe by .000046?
“Because that gives us 6,000,” said Hill.
Using this same multiplier, Hill said creationists plan to further shake up the scientific community by announcing that dinosaurs died out 3,000 years ago, Jesus was born last month, and Pittsburgh was founded on Tuesday.
that's my favorite part. I can see my high school math teachers swooning over the "proof" they just solved
Probability is a number between 0.0 and 1.0 (0% and 100%; impossibility ⇒ certainty). So basically, this faker is saying that Biden's victory is (in effect) 1/∞ or ~0. It is a convoluted / pedantic way of saying that Biden's victory is essentially impossible.
The lying sack of shit was trying to sound smart.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Then again if you are on the right, fiction is truth.
I like reading what's called "Alternative History/Fiction" but it has no relation to the alternative facts the loony right believes
their math expert was an expert in alternative math. quick, send him to phoenix...
Well they already have alternative facts, we should have expected they'd be using alternative math where 4+4 = banana...
I read this. Hahaha
If this is their expert, they are in trouble...
What gets me tho is OAN just brazenly bringing him as their "expert". They apparently didn't vet him or research him or maybe they did and they just didn't care. I think OAN thinks their viewers are fools.
Well, they kinda are...
They do realize that Good Will Hunting was just a movie right?
I'm not sure they do
It's like Mike Lindell's "cyber expert" who's own lawyer called him a conman.
Yes-- they definitely think their their viewers are Trump supporters.
Guys like the first ass that have to show guns to prove their manliness are lacking it...
Then the two 'myth busters',
We are doing things that are foolish because people think it's real..
He just basically called it a scam.
That idiot said that anti-fa and/or BLM might try to infiltrate the process
"So there is some fear that BLM might meet behind the Tilt-A-Whirl, organize, and then bum rush the situation?"
Standing there all alone is so scary...
Only commies eat churros...
That still pic of the woman makes me really dislike her...
That smug look like, I found something...
Yeah, a smudge from your grubby fingers.
Is this the guy that counted how many people were at Trump’s inauguration?
It was the bigliest in history, doncha know...