The Evidence
A succinct, well sourced summary of 2020 election fraud has dropped. Plus updates from CT, AZ, GA, IA and Taiwan.
The 2024 legislative session is underway in Idaho and for those who are trying to push through bills that seek to secure our elections, it is just a matter of time before we hear the ‘why do we need to do this, we don’t have any fraud in Idaho elections’?
Sigh. Even if that is true, should we not do everything we can to keep it that way? Should a bank not install security cameras and bullet proof glass even if they have never been robbed? Should I not take precautions with my home security because it was my neighbor who had his house broken into and not me?
This argument also ignores the polling that shows a majority of Americans now believe that cheating impacts our elections and that includes a super majority of Republicans. You would think that red Idaho would instead have legislators competing to show their support for election integrity (note: some are driving legislation).
But the constant bombardment in big media and big tech that there is no evidence of any significant fraud in the 2020 election has been a powerful narrative, enforced with public ridicule if you dare go against it. Trump, who got nearly 64% of the vote in Idaho in 2020, is routinely smeared as making ‘baseless claims’ of election rigging. That in turn has been the basis of numerous lawsuits and attempts to remove him from the ballot. If they can do it to him, who is immune?
Those who have been watching closely know the claims are not baseless, but the evidence does not receive media attention and unfortunately, the key nuggets have had to compete with a lot of noise. But this past week, a commendable piece of work was released that provides a succinct and well sourced summary of the key claims that don’t fit the above narrative. While the unknown author is clearly biased, the critical thinker can actually go to the source documents to dig into the claims and judge for themselves the veracity.
Five Swing States Summary
The report can be found here but a state-by-state nutshell:
Georgia: multiple issues including missing ballot images, inconsistent post-election counts, lack of documentation on who actually voted, lack of chain of custody documentation of ballots, and more. Several court cases, including the one against Trump and his allies, remain active over irregularities in the Georgia voting system, particularly in Fulton County. Recently, the Georgia legislature has taken steps to remove the controversial Secretary of State (SoS) from his position on the State Elections Board (SEB) as well as clarifying that the SEB has the right to investigate the SoS.
Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that drop boxes in the 2020 election were illegal, which account for tens of thousands of votes. Wisconsin also has a special type of voter known as ‘indefinitely confined’. In 2020, 150,000 new indefinitely confined voters were added, circumventing voter identification laws, and quadrupling the number of people in the program. Additional issues surfaced in nursing homes where 100% turnout occurred in several counties. One of these was Racine County, which was the subject of an investigation by the Sheriff’s department finding several cases of voter fraud in nursing homes. Lastly, there were findings of special access to ballots and vote processing facilities afforded to non-government entities.
Pennsylvania: Data shows there were more votes than voters. A US Attorney was told to ‘stand down’ by Attorney General Bill Barr with respect to investigating any election irregularities.
Arizona: Thousands of absentee ballots were received after election day, which violates Arizona law. Signature verification standards on absentee ballots were not followed (this is the subject of on-going lawsuits from 2022). Hundreds of thousands of ballots have no chain of custody documentation.
Michigan: More votes than voters. Poll challengers were blocked from observing the vote counting process. Thousands of ballots were shown on video being received in the early morning at the central count facility in Detroit with no chain of custody. Signature verification rules were unlawfully changed by the Secretary of State. A case regarding illegal registrations was stymied and only recently resurfaced.
What about the court cases?
I want to address this argument because it is often the go-to response to prove nothing untoward happened in 2020. The mantra is that 60 court cases looked into the 2020 election and dismissed the cases - some of them from judges appointed by Trump.
Not so fast. This website documents all of the court cases that spawned from the 2020 election. While many were dismissed, they were not dismissed after evaluating the evidence. They were dismissed because of lack of standing or timing (laches). In other words, the evidence was never heard.
The tracker shows there were 92 cases and of the 30 that were actually heard on the merits, Trump (or the GOP) prevailed in 22 of them. See this post on X for more details.
Just Move On?
There is no moving on because if the issues that were documented above have not been fixed and the people that broke the law not held accountable, 2024 will be just as bad and probably worse. Unlike 2020, significant numbers of people in every state have gotten organized and informed and will be watching and participating in our election like never before.
In Idaho, we have one last chance legislatively to address the vulnerabilities in our elections. The top of my list is absentee voting as it is unobserved voting and therefore most susceptible to fraud. The fewer people that vote absentee, the lower the chance that fraud can distort our elections. We will see some bills that attempt to restore absentee voting to its original purpose - to be used only if the person cannot vote in person and not for convenience. Please be ready to contact your legislators as these bills move through the process.
Connecticut: SecState Encourages In-Person Voting - In the election that was court ordered to be redone due to absentee ballot fraud, the Democrat Secretary of State of Connecticut encouraged “anyone who can do so to vote in person”.
Taiwan: Independence Candidate Wins - Last Saturday, Taiwan held its Presidential election. It was a three-way race with William Lai winning the election with 40% of the vote. The more China friendly candidate received 33.5% and a third candidate received 26.5%. While this is good news for those who want Taiwan to be independent of mainland China, the new President will have to deal with a legislature that has a majority held by the China friendly party.
Iowa: Trump Wins Iowa Caucus - Trump beat both DeSantis and Haley by about 30 points, the latter coming in third and certainly boosted by cross-over Democrat voting. Ramaswamy dropped out in the aftermath, leaving now four candidates for the Idaho Caucus on March 2. New Hampshire is up next week.
Arizona: Sunshine Initiative on Campaign Funding - In Idaho, we have a sunshine website (https://sunshine.sos.idaho.gov/) to research who is funding which campaigns. In Arizona, an initiative passed that now requires dark money funding to be reported for most state and local elections.
Georgia: TTV Wins Court Battle - The courts have not been the friend of the election integrity movement, but election watchdog group True the Vote (TTV) recently scored a victory. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrahms sued TTV for challenging over 300,000 registrations claiming it was voter intimidation.
Excellent coverage of all these issues, Tim! I read most of those sources, and you did a great job of distilling their most important points. Thank you!
Please do let us know of any election integrity bills that we should call and write about. The elections must be secured, even in squeaky clean Idaho (where I still suspect I encountered some irregularities -- ignored after multiply reporting them).
Thanks for going through all the weeds to get to the important information