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This election has been a complete and predictable dumpster fire.
Despite what will be claimed by Joe-Biden-supporting-Lincoln-Project-sympathizers, this isn’t attributable to Trump.
Before the election, longstanding and legislated election rules were being thrown out whole-hog across the country. Some of these affronts to election integrity were litigated, but many others weren’t.
The resultant confusion and strain on administration and participation have resulted in distrust.
In addition to the chaos wrought on the system by the left’s last-minute rule changes, the media, which has abandoned all nuance in executing propaganda, peddled distrusted content about how the election needed to be run and how it would be resolved.
Prematurely declaring a winner isn’t helpful.
Now, the country has to enter a new phase, contending with a disinformation campaign about voting machine hacking. This story, currently permeating the system, is a dangerous disruption being run to create room for a power grab and distract from the fruitful pursuit of illegal vote counting.
Case in point, the release of a mythical Norwegian squid, appears to have been a bust. Over the weekend, Trump cut Sydney Powell loose after a week of teasing bombshells that never materialized.
There is a bit of irony in Powell’s claims: Democrats suggested the same scheme in 2004 against the same company, albeit under a different name (Dominion now was Diebold then).
Though an alluring story, claims of mass electronic vote switching have not been proven. Hopefully, this latest development portends a refocusing on what Democrats appear to have done to win, slam the system with unlimited anonymous mail-in ballots.
Even if the campaign and election integrity advocates can inspect these highly suspect mail-in ballots, the damage is done.
What we’re left with is more than a majority of the country distrusting the election. To get to a majority, a non-zero number of Democrats are needed, and they exist. According to Rasmussen, 30% of Democrats polled are in this camp, with close to 80% of Republicans.
What is happening now, trying to bring closure with transparency, is the most important thing that can be done to “move towards unity.”
Folks like the former embattled Speaker of the Texas House Joe Straus, who pretend to be about unity, are suggesting efforts to have a fully transparent examination of this election are themselves a danger to our electoral system.
Bull. Again, after-action audits are crucial to resolution; it’s a feature, not a bug.
This isn’t the first time this cycle Straus has rushed to the editorial defense of Democrats and against the norms and standards of election administration. In addition to writing multiple articles to aid and abet the left, Straus filed a defense of illegal drive-thru voting in Harris County.
The Straus op-ed, published in the SAEN, carefully neglects the fact that Trump was denied a peaceful transition of power. Spying on adversaries and a running years-long coup (cheered by establishment types) is part of the reason there’s distrust in the result.
It remains unclear what the will of the people is in this election because 1) Republicans have been denied transparency in reviewing and validating mail-in ballots 2) hacks like Straus continue to suggest transparency demands are somehow an affront to the system.
Straus is speaking past the sale, but Texans and Americans aren’t buying.
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