The NYT contacted election officials
from both parties in every state in the election, and not a single one of them supported President Trump's claim that there were any significant irregularities, never mind fraud, in the 2020 election.
- “There’s a great human capacity for inventing things that aren’t true about elections,” said Frank LaRose, a Republican who serves as Ohio’s secretary of state. “The conspiracy theories and rumors and all those things run rampant. For some reason, elections breed that type of mythology.”
- “Kansas did not experience any widespread, systematic issues with voter fraud, intimidation, irregularities or voting problems,” a spokeswoman for Scott Schwab, the Republican secretary of state in Kansas, said in an email Tuesday. “We are very pleased with how the election has gone up to this point.”
- Nellie Gorbea, the Democratic secretary of state in Rhode Island, said the amount of attention on the election would make illegal voting extremely difficult. “It would be nearly impossible to do voter fraud in this election because of the number of people tuned in,” she said.
- “Many of the claims against the commonwealth have already been dismissed, and repeating these false attacks is reckless,” said Jacklin Rhoads, a spokeswoman for Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who is Pennsylvania’s attorney general. “No active lawsuit even alleges, and no evidence presented so far has shown, widespread problems.”
- ‘‘We have not seen any evidence of fraud or foul play in the actual administration of the election,’’ said Jake Rollow, a spokesman for Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic secretary of state in Michigan. “What we have seen is that it was smooth, transparent, secure and accurate.’’
Some states described small problems common to all elections, which they said they were addressing: a few instances of illegal or double voting, some technical glitches and some minor errors in math. Officials in all states are conducting their own review of the voting — a standard component of the certification process.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Good for the NY Times, and good for those election officials in being crystal clear in their responses. But it shouldn't take any of that.
It would be impossible to commit the type of fraud needed to steel this election. Yes some of those states are close. But what is even being suggested, here?
Let's take Georgia even. Biden doesn't even need Georgia, and Georgia is crazy close. So you have fewer than 15,000 votes separating Biden and Trump. Doesn't seem like a crazy number of votes to tamper with, right? Until you start looking at the logistics:
1. Where do you dump 15,000 ballots? Seems it would be tough to dump them all at once. So you need collusion across a few regions. The people in collusion need to be highly competent to get their scheme past poll watchers, and they need to be trustworthy beyond all measure, because people are going to be investigating, and there are massive incentives to blow it all up as a whistle blower.
2. But the real trick here, is how in hell do you coordinate to just squeak by with less than 1% of the vote? Are we suggesting that the vote was heavily in favour of Trump and the fixers somehow, in real time, snuck in a couple of hundred thousand votes, tracking along the way with each other and the real vote, so that they could manage to just squeak it out?
3. Or are we suggesting that the vote was a virtual tie, and that the Dems then invented 20,000 votes out of this air to tip it to Biden. In which case I'm confused how you could believe the vote could be a virtual tie in favour of Trump by a few thousand votes, but could not have possibly started as a virtual tie in favour of Biden by under 15,000 votes.
4. Repeat all of the above in three or four other states.
The results being what they are there's no realistic scenario for widespread fraud that makes sense.