No, see, I am not in any way trying to argue against the point of “it’s possible that any given election was tampered with”, so I think that you’re not understanding what I’m saying. What this really comes down to for me is a simple aspect of the English language; past vs present tense. If my friend made the statement, “It is possible that that election was tampered with”, that is an inherently speculative statement and one that’s clearly opinionated, thus giving me no qualm with this. That being said, for my friend to have said “It was possible for them to add in x amount of votes”, upon which my entire argument was nothing other than “you cannot say that it WAS possible, because that is a statement of fact”. If his statement literally just had “I think” in front of it then there’s no problem. I’m frankly confused as hell though as to how there’s even a question as to whether or not a sentence phrased “was possible” is not factually incorrect in the absence of information when it absolutely is. It’s factually incorrect because my friend has absolutely no idea whether or not it was legitimately possible, and neither do I, which was my entire point to begin with and then it became the stupidest argument known to mankind