President Donald Trump is furiously adamant that the widespread electoral fraud that he warned about for months has indeed come to pass. The left and the mainstream media just as furiously deny it. Even supposedly “conservative” journalists like the Australian’s Caroline Overington categorically claim that there is “no evidence” at all.
So who is right?
Certainly, there are a lot of wild claims and conspiracies doing the rounds. But there are also at least a handful of stories that just cannot be dismissed.
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has produced some damning undercover videos that appear to show at least some level of voter fraud. In the first, in the lead-up to the election, O’Keefe apparently uncovers ballot harvesting by a campaign worker connected to Democrat Ilhan Omar in the state of Minnesota. Minnesota is a crucial state in the election as, despite being a Democrat stronghold, it threatened to flip in 2020.
More recent videos from O’Keefe included a postal worker bragging that he can obtain as many blank postal ballots as the undercover journalist wants. “I’m gonna see if I can get you some (ballots), like a nice little handful”, the worker says.
In another bombshell, Project Veritas says a USPS whistleblower in battleground Michigan contacted them to report irregularities. According to the whistleblower, USPS management instructed workers in Michigan to illegally back-date mail-in ballots arriving after the cut-off date.
There have long been claims of deceased persons’ names being used to illegally lodge ballots. While it is disputed whether or not the practise is widespread, political commentator Corey Lewandowski has cited at least one example that he says is concrete. In that case, a woman in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, was recorded in her obituary as dying on 22nd October 2020. Her application to vote was made on the 23rd, and her postal vote was received on the 2nd of November.
It’s claimed that up to 21,000 deceased voters remained on battleground state Pennsylvania’s rolls.
Another disturbing aspect of the election is its widespread use of computerised vote counting. In at least one county, in Michigan, a state hotly contested, the software “glitched”, incorrectly attributing Trump votes to Biden. Once the glitch was corrected, Trump won the county easily.
Worryingly, the same software is used in some 28 US states, including all of the disputed swing states. At least one other state, Georgia, another battleground, experienced glitches in its counting.
Yet the media are openly trying to downplay even such indisputable evidence as this. Gizmodo outright denied that it had happened at all, while other news sources headlined it as “Republicans claim…” Yet their own story shows that it is entirely true: “The glitch was noticed by local election officials in Antrim County on Wednesday after results showed that the former vice president won the county in the presidential race”.
So what does all this amount to? Certainly not proof-positive, but that’s beside the point. The mere fact of such widespread smoke should be more than enough to warrant a thorough investigation as to whether there’s a fire or not.
As journalist Tim Poole puts it, if they have a thorough investigation and it finds that there was no vote-rigging, then the system is exonerated. More importantly, due process has been put to work.
But if there is at least the possibility of widespread voter fraud and the system refuses to even look into it, then 70 million Americans, half of the voters in this election, have been disenfranchised.
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