I avoid engaging deeply with conspiracy theorists and other liars for the same reason I don’t engage with drunks: nothing good can come from reasoning with the unreasonable. But I want to make one more note about SD Canvassing, the largely anonymous group that’s hosting a Big Lie rally at the Al Novstrup Go-Kart Palace in Sioux Falls next Monday.

SD Canvassing’s botched website opens at this homepage:

This anonymous group claims to be interested in “election integrity in the state of South Dakota”. But they can’t even find a picture of a South Dakota polling station, let alone any evidence of a lack of integrity in South Dakota’s election. Check out all the Britishisms in their banner image:

Craven Arms is a pretty little civil parish in Shropshire, England, formed in 1987 with the merger of Stokesay and Halford. As indicated by the poster to the right of the image above, these blue automatic doors open into the Craven Arms Community Center (note the spelling) and the library. The sign in the top right seems to indicate that the Center is partly funded by the European Union – nice of the continent to do this favor before Brexit! Note the other clear indications that this photo is from Mother England: violation, queue, hours with hour and minutes separated by periods instead of colons, date written as “June 3” instead of “June 3”, and the announcement for Slimming Worldthe UK version of Weight Watchers.

If I had to hire these conspiracy theorists, I’d come up with my own theory that this image of a British polling station proves that the SD canvassing is a Tory cabal seeking to restore the monarchy. This image is at least tangible proof – an actual photograph used by the actual band on their actual website – like any of the unsustainable mathematical fantasies they come up with.

But hey, like I said, I’m not hiring conspiracy theorists.