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February 28 - March 5, 2022
America’s smug political elites, of course, responded by mocking a small group of Americans that believe in darker and crazier conspiracies about what happened. It’s convenient to pretend that certain extreme beliefs are representative of all seventy-four million Trump voters, or even of just the tens of millions of Republican voters who are troubled about how the election was conducted.
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election was to be held on a single day nationwide.
a lengthy window of time for elections.
In 2016, absentee and mail-in ballots accounted for roughly 33 million of the 140 million ballots counted.20 In 2020, more than 100 million of the 159 million ballots counted were cast prior to Election Day, including by early voting.21
The move to early and mail-in voting took away some of that secrecy, along with the ability to detect fraud or coercion.
declared that “[a]bsentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
Of particular concern was how vulnerable voters might be coerced to vote in a way that more powerful people told them to.
leaders of the Democratic Party did not just push to make mail-in voting more popular; they lobbied to eliminate the rules designed to decrease coercion and fraud.
Elias’s real passion had long been helping Democrats win elections by changing voting laws.
Elias published a piece arguing there was an “epidemic of uncounted ballots.”
“I have never seen dishonesty like this. They’re dishonest with polls. You know it’s suppression to keep people home.
Democrat-won states seem to get called more quickly than Republican states.)
much of the initial resistance to Trump from the Republican Party establishment dissipated as scandals swirling around Trump proved to be manufactured by Democrats and the media.
Studies show that early voting benefits Democratic candidates and harms Republicans.11
Democrats were more likely to vote absentee, early, and by mail, while Republicans were more likely to vote on election day.44
Regardless of fraud and other concerns, the press saw the success of the mail-in ballot effort in Wisconsin for what it was: an effort to turn out more Democratic voters.
Her group collected hundreds of legal affidavits from Democratic voters who said they had trouble acquiring and casting ballots.
The change to the law, combined with the consent decree, did exactly what the Democrats had hoped: it made it more difficult for election officials to reject absentee ballots.
However, pointing out the existence of inaccurate voter rolls is not the same thing as proving that voter fraud is occurring.
Then the journal The Lancet pulled it because the authors could not verify the data on which the results depended.
Obama, the nation’s first president of African descent, was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. With racial progress in America so profound and widespread, the left had to escalate racial tensions to maintain an electorally advantageous level of outrage.
the statistics didn’t begin to give a full sense of the tragedy—at
Throw in the fact that the Russians bought a few hundred thousand dollars’ worth of election ads on Facebook, and all of a sudden social media was to blame for the election of Donald Trump to the nation’s highest office.
Both sides claimed they needed lawyers to stop the other side from “stealing” the election.
Ballot harvesting is not allowed in Pennsylvania because of concerns that the practice violates the sanctity of the secret ballot.
The absence of evidence of fraud, Thomas noted, was not sufficient to settle debates about fraud,
The fallacy is to assume there was fraud when you can't prove there wasn't fraud.
