A SUSPICIOUS ELECTION

If you are reading this outside of the USA, you may not be aware of the problems and controversy around the still undecided election. In the 2016 election, the democrats claimed election fraud for four years. They called it “the Russian collusion” which led to multiple investigations but eventually ended with all of the allegations disproved. They then tried impeachment over a phone call, but that also failed. Now it is the Republicans turn to claim election fraud. But this time there are lots of factual evidence coming forth indicating the extent of the fraud— systemic fraud.

Systemic means that the fraud was not just a single one or a singular form, it has taken many different forms in many different states from Michigan, to Pennsylvania, to Georgia, to Arizona, and Nevada. Already hundreds of people have come forward reporting of instances of fraud and have signed affidavits under penality of law. There have also been scores of whistle blowers who have spoken out. Fraud, as the general term for any kind of trickery, includes many different things, from not following correct procedure which is designed to make an election fair and give equal access to all people, to presenting invalid ballots, to forbidding transparency etc. Here is a list of most of the fraud being reported.

There have been significant computer glitches which has generated thousands of discrepancies; one glitch in Michigan registered 6000 votes for Trump for Biden. 47 counties used the same software. Multiple polling places refused to allow transparency in watching the counting as they refused to allow republican observers within a range so they could observe. There were problems with the mass mail-in. In PA, thousands of ballots showed up with only one vote on it, Biden. Though there were places for another 30 to 50 votes, none were marked. There were no “down votes” on the rest of the ballots. Observers of the PA counting now say that 632,000 ballots were illegal. Several post office workers have given testimony that they were told to pre-date ballots. There have been hundreds of thousands of ballots with no checking of the signature against the registration list. In NV, more than 300 deceased people voted; and another 600 who no longer lived them voted. A number of people have come forward who showed up and then were told they had already voted, when they had not. A Social Worker in Texas has been arrested for forging signatures on 63 ballots that she collected form a nursing home. Dozens of poll workers have been video-taped escorting voters into a voting booth and going with them and voting for them while the voter stands and passively watches “with their hands in their pockets.”

The Smartmac software has been implicated as having programs that intentionally delete files where votes for Trump were recorded.

It is a big mess and it is all very suspicious. One suspicious factor about the election is that in the days after election day, it was in the middle of the night (3 am) that the vote summaries suddenly changed from Trump to Biden. It’s suspicious that the contested ballots were in 10 democratic stronghold cities. Why is that? Why refuse to let observers in so that they can do what they are there to do– observe? Are they hiding something?

What will eventually happen is still an open question. Obviously, the mainstream media has rushed to judgment in declaring Biden the winner, the president-elect. Biden himself is also acting as if it is over even though none of the states have yet certified the election. That is to occur on Dec. 9. Instead of patiently waiting, he is using the media to cry unfair and that Trump is preventing his transition team. Of course, it took 37 days for things to be settled in 2000 and the transition team to start.

Unless the courts overturn the count due to fraud in several states, then Trump will lose. If he does, I think it will be due to three things. First, the covid virus; that’s who he was actually running against. Second, the media because while he took immediate and effective action in dealing with it, the media not only prevented that information from getting out, they created an extremely negative semantic environment against him. With 92% of all articles and news reports being negative about Trump, that was a big handicap that was nearly impossible for him to overcome. Third, the fraud surrounding the mail-in ballots.

Whatever happens with the election, the strong antagonism and partisanship that has been contaminating the political dialogue will continue. The different political philosophies of the right and left, conservative and progressive will continue and will create a cry for respectful communication that seeks first to understand and then to be understood. Only that will cure the current toxic environment.