Poll worker pleads guilty to voter fraud
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I read that entire article. It's a giant logical fallacy. In effect, it is a combination of several:
The Baconian fallacy. This is essentially an argument where the maker says, We don't know everything, therefore we don't know anything... It dismisses what proof was presented as both insufficient and unworthy of further examination.
The next is Appeal to the Stone. Here, the writer argues the movie's premise and presentation are absurd but never shows why.
Then comes Questionable Cause. The writer makes unsupported claims about association to causation and always chooses the combination that produces the most doubt.
In the update at the end, the writer uses an Appeal to Authority which is without merit. Barr's opinion is just that, not fact.
At another point in the part about Arizona, the writer makes a fallacy of Poisoning the Well. This is a form of ad hominem where he presents adverse information about D'Souza with the intent of making the reader believe anything D'Souza presents must therefore be adverse / wrong too.
There's more, but that's enough. The piece is nothing but a cheap hit piece on the movie.
Now, that said, no I don't think D'Souza's movie is some totally valid proof of election fraud. I do think it raises serious questions about mail-in balloting in general and gives ample evidence that the practice could be or become rife with fraud. I would say it is an excellent argument to end large-scale mail-in balloting in elections.