Rigged Quotes

“What happened during the 2020 election must be investigated and discussed, not in spite of media and political opposition to an open inquiry, but because of that opposition. The American people deserve to know what happened. They deserve answers, even if those answers are inconvenient. They deserve to know the effect flooding the system with tens of millions of mail-in ballots had on their vote. They deserve to know how and why Big Tech and the corporate political media manipulated the news to support certain political narratives while censoring stories they now admit were true. They deserve to know why courts were allowed to unilaterally rewrite the rules in the middle of the contest, often without the consent of the legislative bodies charged with writing election laws.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“They worried that widespread mail-in voting would lead to fraud. And they had good reason to worry. A 2005 bipartisan commission co-chaired by none other than Jimmy Carter found that absentee balloting was the largest source of potential fraud in American elections. Why should 2020 be any different? They worried that universal mail-in balloting would make ballots harder to track, as some states bombarded addresses with ballots for previous residents who had moved out but hadn’t been struck from the voter rolls. What would happen to all the excess ballots?”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Election lawyers will tell you that fraud is almost impossible to conclusively find after the fact, and that to fight it, strong rules and regulations are needed on the front end.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“However, Trump’s flaws must be weighed against the disturbing nature of the opposition arrayed against him—an army of corporate-funded left-wing activists who excused and encouraged violent riots across the country; technology oligarchs who made unprecedented efforts to normalize censorship; state and local officials who radically altered the way Americans vote in the middle of an election for partisan advantage; an ostensibly free press that credulously and willfully published fake news to damage the president; politicized federal law enforcement agencies that abused the federal government’s surveillance and investigative powers to smear Trump as a puppet of a foreign power; and an opposition party that coordinated all these smears and spent years trying to impeach and remove a duly elected president from office.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Those in control of America’s most powerful institutions—business, media, academia, bureaucracies, and even the FBI—are engaged in a permanent struggle against half the country to bring about radical social and political changes.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“The powers that be did whatever it took to prevent Trump from winning his re-election bid in 2020. They admitted as much in a victory lap masquerading as a news article in Time magazine that referred to the individuals and institutions behind the efforts to oust Trump as a “well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”16”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“They worried that lowering, or in some cases eliminating, standards for signature verification on mail-in ballots could make it impossible to challenge those fraudulently cast. In an election that promised to be contentious, lowering the standards seemed like a recipe for undermining public faith in the results. Why not leave signature verification as it was, or strengthen it?”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“If you believe things went terribly wrong in the 2020 election, well, you’re not crazy, and you’re not alone. But most of all, you’re not wrong.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“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.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“As mail-in ballots came in and were accepted even when they were not properly filled out, Republicans saw the consequences of the mad rush to change the nation’s voting laws. And they saw how the media dismissed all concerns about how the election was run without a lick of investigation”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Republicans also screamed bloody murder about the censorship by social media platforms of conservative voices and negative news stories about Democrats. They were horrified by a media complex that moved from extreme partisan bias to unabashed propaganda in defense of the Democratic Party. They watched as a completely legitimate story about international corruption involving the Biden family business—and implicating Joe Biden himself—was crushed by media and tech companies colluding to suppress it.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“They worried ballot management in some areas was privately funded by corporate oligarchs overtly hostile to the Republican Party. Didn’t that give at least the appearance of impropriety? And they worried that failing to remove the deceased and those who moved out of state from voter rolls would cause worse problems in an election in which mail-in balloting would feature so prevalently.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“They worried third-party ballot harvesting would encourage voter fraud. Some states had called for unsupervised drop boxes to replace or supplement ordinary polling stations. What would stop those boxes from being tampered with, or, worse still, from being filled with fraudulent votes by bad actors?”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Republicans began to issue warnings about the new practices well before November 2020. They talked about how widespread changes in the manner the country conducts elections would create uncertainty, confusion, and delays.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Tellingly, Ball reported that the BLM riots were a key part of their effort to impact the election, as the leaders of these groups “drew energy from the summer’s racial-justice protests, many of whose leaders were a key part of the liberal alliance.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“The book was uncomfortably friendly to the powerful Democrat and confirmed that Ball had close ties to Democratic leaders. Of all people, she was in a position to know the story of what happened in 2020. In her piece, Ball told a cheerful story about a “conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” the “result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.”72 She purported to tell “the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election.”73”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Months after the 2020 presidential election, Time magazine published its triumphant story of how the election was won by “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”70”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Angered by his quick recovery, commentators sought to recast the triumphant scene of his return to the White House. When Trump appeared on the White House balcony after his return from Walter Reed, NBC News’s presidential historian Michael Beschloss tweeted, “In America, our Presidents have generally avoided strongman balcony scenes—that’s for other countries with authoritarian systems.”61 While the tweet was amplified by Beschloss’s fellow Resistance members, Americans with better knowledge of presidential history responded with pictures of every other president pictured at the balcony, be it President Barack Obama (many, many times—once with communist dictator Xi Jinping, no less), President George W. Bush, President George H. W. Bush, President Ronald Reagan, President Jimmy Carter, President Richard Nixon, on back to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.62”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“They’re going around literally with tractor trailers picking up mailboxes. You oughta go online and check out what they’re doing in Oregon. I mean, it’s bizarre!” Biden said at a virtual fundraiser.100”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“But the media and Democratic politicians were unwilling to admit that anarchist and Marxist groups such as Antifa and BLM were exploiting racial unrest to launch a full-blown insurrection in major American cities. South of Seattle, Portland had an even more acute insurrection problem.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“men were murdered in the CHAZ. The creation of so-called “autonomous zones” also happened in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon. These were not spontaneous hippie gatherings. They were the direct outgrowth of the ideology of hard-left groups. Autonomous zones are part of a strategy, however ill-conceived, to challenge and overthrow the elected authorities. “For the most part, you’re looking at an ideology of autonomism which is bottom-up Marxist organizing.… This was an ideology that came out of… Italy and Germany in the late 60s, early 70s,” Kyle Shideler, director and senior analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, observed. “It was influential with the [terrorist groups] Red Brigades and the Red Army Faction, and you still see this in their language. When [American protesters] talk about autonomous action or setting up an autonomous zone, that’s what they’re referring to.”72”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“In the week between the death of George Floyd and the assault on the White House, at least twelve statues and memorials were defaced by vandals, including the World War II Memorial and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall.61 Even a statue of the nonviolent revolutionary Mahatma Gandhi in front of the Indian Embassy was vandalized by BLM protesters.62”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Despite the media’s best efforts, a few months later, in June, it would become impossible to deny there was a link between mail-in ballots and election fraud.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“However, pointing out the existence of inaccurate voter rolls is not the same thing as proving that voter fraud is occurring.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“It’s absolutely true that having bloated voter rolls makes states and localities more susceptible to voter fraud.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“The willingness of Democratic administrations to just make war on the NVRA is appalling,” said Popper, whose group sued California over its voter roll failures. California in particular got a special dispensation from Clinton attorney general Janet Reno to operate under an esoteric and erroneous interpretation of the NVRA, leading the state to ignore voter roll maintenance for decades.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Left unsaid was that Biden states received 88.4 percent of the funding and an average award of more than $3.5 million—3.34 times as large as the amount Trump states received. Four states that received funds switched from Trump states in 2016 to Biden states in 2020. Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania received $35,579,609—more than half of all funds. By contrast, Florida, a state that became more firmly Trump-supporting in 2020, received only $287,000 in CEIR funding.86”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“Raffensperger also requested and received a $5,591,800 grant from the privately funded Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), a group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.84 The group reported Georgia used the funds to push mail-in balloting and to counteract negative messaging about mail-in voting.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“What’s more, many counties used minimum-wage temporary workers to sort through ballots, not skilled analysts of what constitutes a signature match.”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

“If America were a house, they’d be the termites. It’s that bad,” said Georgia Republican and voter database expert Mark Davis about the lawfare engaged in fighting against voting integrity laws. Long before COVID-19, the Democratic Party of Georgia, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sued Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in November 2019 to get him to water down the state’s requirements for checking signatures on mail-in ballots.57 Governor Kemp, under pressure from Democratic groups alleging voter suppression, had already signed a law earlier in 2019 that relaxed signature requirements and made it more difficult to reject ballots for signature mismatch or other ballot problems. Elias, who was leading the lawsuits, wanted the requirements relaxed even more.58”
― Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections