Monday, November 9, 2020

What about voter fraud?

 


In 2016, Clinton received 65,853,514 votes in the popular vote and Trump received 62,984,828. According to the popular vote, Clinton received over 2.8 million popular votes than Trump. Currently, as of the date of this post, with the election count incomplete in a few states, Biden has 75,596,426 popular votes and Trump has 71,043,149. The difference today is over 4.5 million, far more than the difference in 2016. In 2016, despite his loss of the popular vote, Trump did not contest the election on the basis of fraud. Back in 2016, a New York Times article "All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None" stated as follows:

After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible reports of fraud they actually received. The overwhelming consensus: next to none.

In an election in which more than 137.7 million Americans cast ballots, election and law enforcement officials in 26 states and the District of Columbia — Democratic-leaning, Republican-leaning and in-between — said that so far they knew of no credible allegations of fraudulent voting. Officials in another eight states said they knew of only one allegation.

But apparently, according to Trump who is the apparent loser in the 2020 election, everything has changed in the past four years. Now, we have rampant voter fraud. Here is the split in the electoral college in 2016

Wikipedia: 2016 United States presidential election


You might note that 7 electors refused to follow their state mandate and voted contrary to the results of the election. 

Here is today's tally of the Electoral Votes from the Associated Press.


Now I have a couple of questions:

Why are there only allegations of voter fraud in the states where Trump is losing?

For example, in North Carolina, Trump is only ahead by about 75,000 votes. Why is that state excluded from the Trump allegations? By the way, Trump has only made allegations of fraud in 5 states and those are only states where Biden leads in the vote count.

Why is there only voter fraud in 5 states?

If Trump is worried today about voter fraud why wasn't something done about the supposed problem during his 4 years in office?

Why did Trump try to prevent the Post Office from delivering and collecting ballots?

Why did Trump vote by mail if voting by mail was basically flawed?

Why have I been voting by mail for years without a single issue or problem?

Just thinking. 


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