2020 Election Fraud

A thoughtful, highly intelligent young friend of mine whom I have know since he was a student in my high school classroom thirty years ago has been debating the assertion that there was fraud in the 2020 presidential election. He invited me to review a Wikipedia article that details the situation surrounding over 50 cases of alleged fraud. Having reviewed the article, I am surprised my young friend suggested it; it does little to deny the possibility of fraud in the election. To be fair, what it does is show that there has been precious little adjudication one way or the other.

As the chart below indicates, as of this study only six cases had been ruled on, four cases had trials ongoing, and six cases had been appealed. In other words, forty-four cases remained undecided. This does not mean they are either right or wrong about election fraud; it means we don’t know whether there was fraud or not. The only way to know if the election results were tampered with will be to bring more of these cases under scrutiny.

Add to the court cases the uncertainty caused by several statistical anomalies, and you have a reason to want the investigations to continue. The anomalies are of two types: one shows highly improbable shifts in voter allegiance from Republican to Democrat in several blocks of voters; the second is reports of batches of mail or absentee ballots being almost entirely votes for Biden. Both of these situations logically demand a closer look. Even with the Trump hatred fomented by biased media, the likelihood that entire voting blocks would swing from a large Republican majority to a similar ratio favoring Democrats is questionable. Finding large batches of Biden-only votes late on election night is also highly suspicious, particularly when Republican poll-watchers were kept from observing in some cases.

The bottom line is that the election reeks of potential fraud. Sadly, the justice system that should be the check to balance Democrat shenanigans has either sold out to the Dems, or it has moved too slowly to raise the fraud issue before the election was certified. County election officials and even judges are not above acting on their personal bias rather than remaining neutral. One has only to remember the decisions of the Ninth Circuit Court in recent years to see that bias is alive and well in the judicial system. The split decisions of the Supreme Court fall almost entirely along political lines proving that the courts do not remain immune to the forces of ideological whim.

I think it was very presidential of President Trump to concede the election to Biden in the face of such uncertainty. Given the slow turning of the wheels of justice, it appears unlikely that a complete picture of the election will emerge before January 20. Denouncing the radicals who stormed the Capitol during the certification was Trump being presidential. His promise to affect a smooth transition of power to the Biden apparatus was presidential. To have done otherwise would have thrown the country into a state of indecision and unrest that would be counterproductive.

I will be curious to see what happens to the allegations of fraud contained in the forty-four cases in the study that have not been investigated either judicially or otherwise. It will be an unprecedented situation if sufficient fraud is discovered after January 20 to change the results of the election in Trump’s favor. To my knowledge, the country has never faced such a challenge. I don’t think the Constitution has a clause covering election correction after a presidential inauguration.

I do know that the situation surrounding the 2020 presidential election has seriously undermined the confidence of a large slice of the electorate. The machinations of the Democrats to change the way we vote supposedly motivated by concerns related to the COVID 19 restrictions must be reviewed. God willing there won’t be a pandemic at the time of the next national election in 2022, and the extreme measures taken in 2020 can be eliminated. Every one of the changes the Democrats made to the voting process increases the potential for fraud. The most pressing priority in the next two years for any who care about election integrity must be to reinstate a voting process that is transparent and fair to all.

Total count of post-election lawsuits
State	Dropped	Dismissed	Appeal ongoing	Trial ongoing	Ruled	Total
Arizona	3	3	1	0	0	7
Georgia	1	3	2	1	0	7
Michigan	2	3	1	0	1	7
Nevada	2	5	0	0	0	7
Pennsylvania*	1	7	1	1	3	13
Wisconsin	1	4	1	0	1	7
Others	1	2	0	2	1	6
Totals	11	27	6	4	6	54