By faith, a lot of Republicans believe, just as Democrats did in 2016, that the 2020 election has been stolen through vote fraud.
I guarantee you that there will be vote fraud and the media discredits itself by denying any fraud. There is always fraud. The question is not if there was fraud, but was it enough to alter the outcome of the election. We are starting to get a sense of it in Pennsylvania.
Over 680,000 illegal votes were cast there, according to Rudy Giuliani and the President’s legal team. This morning the President’s lawyers have abandoned that claim. The claim was premised on Republican observers being unable to witness the counting of the ballots. The President’s lawyers are dropping that claim now because it turns out the witnesses could observe. While they could not be within six feet, it turns out there were cameras with the counters so observation via closed-circuit television could still be made. The President’s lawyers are abandoning that claim.
The more substantive claim from the President revolves around an equal protection argument. That argument is that voters in Democrat counties could cure their absentee ballots, i.e go put their signature on the ballots after the absentee ballots were sent back. Republicans were not given that opportunity.
Pennsylvania allows counties to do this. Republican counties in Pennsylvania for some reason did not aggressively contact voters to cure their votes. Democrat-led counties did. The GOP remedy is to toss all the votes. However, under well-established precedent, judges are not going to toss lawfully cast ballots and there is now no way to tell whose ballot goes with whose envelope. The more appropriate remedy would be to allow Republicans to cure their ballots that have not been counted. If so, there are not enough ballots to offset Joe Biden’s lead.
In Michigan, the 234 pages of affidavits from over 100 people have been considered by a court. The judge determined the complaints are mostly based on Republican poll watchers not having gone through their training. According to the judge, if they had, many of the things they flagged would have been understood as legitimately trying to get ballots to scan. Others, under oath, acknowledged they were not sure if ballots were being duplicated. Still others walked back their affidavit claims while under oath in court.
Also in Michigan, it turns out 10,000 dead people did not vote. Both the Republicans and Democrats in Michigan agree that the coded birthdates of 1900 on voter registration files were done to add records into an electronic database when printed voter registration files lacked a birthday. The computer system required one, so local elections officials used a birth date in 1900 as a common code to flag they were missing the real birthday.
Less than 50 people have been confirmed to have cast ballots nationwide despite being dead. In each case, it was someone who voted absentee and then died, but boards of elections were not notified. One person in Nevada is confirmed to have had a ballot cast in her name, though she was dead, and that is under investigation.
In Arizona, the President’s team has withdrawn much of their complaint and now only want a court to focus on 191 ballots out of an 11,000 vote margin.
In Georgia, a hand recount is thus far showing that Dominion Voter Systems did not rig the election. The hand count is aligning with the machines. President Trump is complaining about signature verifications on absentee ballots. The problem is the GOP already participated in that process, which occurred before the election.
In Georgia, the absentee ballots began their verification process the week before the election. Once the signatures were verified, the ballots were removed from the signed envelopes. There is now no way to reconnect a ballot to an envelope because there is no way to identify each voter’s ballot.
The President’s legal team has won only one case. It was in Pennsylvania and applied to too few ballots to offset Joe Biden’s victory.
As to the Dominion Voter Systems conspiracy about the CIA, seized data from Germany, etc. no one has provided any evidence so far of the legitimacy of the claims. No lawyer has thus far been willing to make those claims under oath in court. Consequently, their validity cannot be determined. Without an effort to put forward the evidence in court, they shouldn’t be considered any more legitimate than the Christopher Steele dossier.
You can believe by faith that the election was stolen, but there needs to be some evidence for it. Thus far, the GOP hasn’t found any that holds up under scrutiny. I continue to believe there is voter fraud, but I also continue to believe it won’t be enough to alter the election. The President’s lawyers keep withdrawing claims while his surrogates on television make even more sensational claims with no evidence. This is not helpful or good.
An Evidence Based Faith
Having just spent seven bucks to read this, I am a bit peeved with your viewpoint. I live in Macon GA, just as you do. We probably vote in the same precient. I voted Tuesday, November 3. No early voting for me, because in this day and time, if you can't get up and vote on election day, there should be a damn good reason. Military service, business that doesn't allow it, etc. You should not be allowed to vote early just to avoid a line, and mail in voting is just a recipe for fraud that the Democrat Party cooked up. I entered the voting place on Riverside Dr. and was immediately struck by the fact that NO Republicans were visible. I counted 13 people who were workers, and not a single one was readily identifiable as a Republican. On the other hand, 11 of the 13 were easily identified as Democrats. The fake smarminess of their "Good morning!" The young metrosexual male with the colored hair and Biden/Harris face mask. The slightly overweight Mount De Sales mom with the $250 jeans with the rips built in, for that "common" look. The snarky "stand on the X" from the Bebe Neuwirth lookalike. Macon being what it is, I expected an overwhelming Democrat theme. But there was only one, count 'em, ONE, black person working there in a city that is 55% African American. He was instructing people where to stand. The poll workers were all women, all mid 30's to early '50's, and all white. In Macon? Methinks not. I smelled a fix. By the time I voted, it was 7:28 AM. My supervisor at work later informed me he went to vote at 7 am in Griffin, GA. He didn't get inside the building until 7:15 am, despite showing up at 6:30 am, and was told that all the voting machines in the state were down, and that they would have to use paper ballots. During that same time period, I witnessed over 40 people casting their votes on the machines in Macon with no problems. Now Erick, I don't generally don't believe in conspiracy theories, but something just stinks about this. Besides Georgia, what about all the other observations? 90+% turnout in districts around Milwaukee? Really? Pol Pot would like that kind of turnout. Postal workers being instructed by USPS supervisors to hand stamp Nov. 3 postmarks on any ballots that came in late? There are hundreds of other stories that we know about, and probably thousands that Democrats are snickering about behind their unnecessary masks. People know there is a conspiracy amongst the Silicon Valley types and the mainstream media to put "those damn Trumpanzees" in their place. There has been since Nov. 9, 2016. And the people feel extremely distressed that our Constitution is being used as a doormat for the "election" of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. You never struck me as a Trump maniac, and l am far from one myself. But the man did a good job under unprecedented obstruction from the media and the Democrat Party. RIght is right, and wrong is wrong. The American people deserved a fair election, and they did not get it. Now, how about encourage all the local listeners to your radio show, like me, to vote January 5, so we can insure Republicans can make a Biden presidency as toothless as possible.
I remember back in 2015-2016 you wrote "You will be made to care". Today I see it everywhere; TV, movies, commentary, etc. Sometimes I just want the world to stop. I'm tired of the constant battles we have to fight. But I will tell you this, Unless we make changes to our school systems, we will be a Socialist Nation soon. We do not teach Civics, any life skill courses to our students or American History. We only feed them Propaganda. It saddens me. I may not see all that is down the road, but I worry about my grandchildren. Eric, keep preaching but also give us some hope. I am afraid of Biden's Dark, Deary, Desperate Winter.