Polygraph

On AirNo. 1Election fraud

1Fraud and vouching abuse in Minnesota

That people are voting illegally in Minnesota, as noncitizens or through vouching, where a registered voter can vouch for a same-day registrant’s address. James O’Keefe and Cam Higby filmed at Minneapolis polling places on primary day to test it, and were later charged.

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Carried by 107 shows from Jul 27 to Oct 28. Repeated against rebutted:

Listeners

977,506repeated
10,800rebutted

90.5× as many repeating it. Plus 1,129,627 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Hours

16 hrrepeated
1.4 hrrebutted

11.5× as many repeating it. Plus 7.4 hr reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Segments

106repeated
10rebutted

10.6× as many repeating it. Plus 71 reporting or discussing it without taking a side.

Day by day

Day by day

106 segments repeated it. 10 rebutted it.

Each column is one day. Segments that repeated the claim stack up from the line, segments that rebutted it hang below; the numbered marks are the dated events.

Aug 11 On Minnesota’s primary day, James O’Keefe and Cam Higby film at Minneapolis polling places, testing vouching.

In the week from that day, 28 segments repeated it and 2 rebutted it; in the week before, 1 and 0. Votebeat

Sep 30 A federal grand jury in Minneapolis indicts 10 noncitizens on illegal-voting charges.

In the week from that day, 22 segments repeated it and 1 rebutted it; in the week before, 2 and 0. MPR News

Oct 28 Hennepin County charges O’Keefe and Higby with felony unlawful voting over the primary-day stunt.

In the week from that day, 3 segments repeated it and 2 rebutted it; in the week before, 9 and 1. MPR News

12 segments repeated it on Aug 14, its busiest day.

Day by day

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

Segments a day

Repeated above the line, rebutted below. Jul 27 – Oct 28

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Source: Polygraph read of podcast segments; segments, Particle

  1. 1Aug 11. On Minnesota’s primary day, James O’Keefe and Cam Higby film at Minneapolis polling places, testing vouching. Votebeat
  2. 2Sep 30. A federal grand jury in Minneapolis indicts 10 noncitizens on illegal-voting charges. MPR News
  3. 3Oct 28. Hennepin County charges O’Keefe and Higby with felony unlawful voting over the primary-day stunt. MPR News

Who carried it

Every show that repeated it, above the line, and every show that rebutted it, below, placed by the show’s size: its estimated listeners an episode. A bigger dot is more segments; the three biggest carriers on each side are named.

↑ Repeated it↓ Rebutted it

Show size: estimated listeners an episode →

Show size, estimated listeners an episode:Under 1,0001,000 to 100,000100,000 and up

Repeated

Shows66%29%
Listeners19%79%

Rebutted

Shows60%40%
Listeners94%

Repeated · 58 shows

48% of the 977,506 listeners from the biggest, The Dan Bongino Show; 79% from the top three.

Rebutted · 10 shows

42% of the 10,800 listeners from the biggest, Straight White American Jesus; 82% from the top three.

About these numbers

Each segment’s side is read from its podcast-index entry, its title and summary, not the audio. Segments that report or discuss the claim without taking a side are counted apart. Hours on air is the length of the segments as the index cuts them: time on the subject, not seconds spent saying the claim.

Listeners is an estimate of each episode’s audience, modelled from the show’s followers and summed over the episodes that carried a side, each episode once. Treat it as an order of magnitude. Lean is the show’s rating. Source: Particle.

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