The election may have been fair but I still believe it might have been rigged. The investigations were too quick to convince me one way or the other.
However I do believe that once the election was over there was no way it could be overturned.
One of the most detailed investigations into Voter Fraud took place in Riverside County California.
The Riverside County investigation illustrates the challenge authorities face when dealing with allegations of massive voter fraud.
www.latimes.com
People who searched images online, and voter rolls, along with death certificates, and several other things identified a thousand possible cases of Voter Fraud for Investigators to examine. The Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorneys office investigated every single claim, about a Thousand of them. And this included going out and speaking to people about the irregularity.
So what did they find. Some people did return two mail in ballots. They got one in the mail, filled it out and then sent it back. Shortly after that they got a second one. That turns out to have been a mistake by the Elections Office which accidentally sent five thousand ballots twice. Those people who filled out the second one believed there had been a problem with the first one, some form not filled out correctly, and they filled out the second one. As I understand it, only one of their votes were counted, not the second one.
Now, this was a few of the reports, most of those receiving the second one didn’t send it in. But they weren’t voting for Mom, or dead Dad, or their dogs. This was their ballots in their own name. And honestly, if I got a second one like that I might think the same thing. I fucked up the first one and was given a second chance to get it right. A perfectly reasonable interpretation of the situation. No intent to defraud the system. A screw up. Search my history. I have said many times we should forgive an honest mistake.
Some voters were identified as deceased. The investigators talked to these people and found them very much alive. This included the scientific method of poking them with a stick, and even holding a mirror under their noses. I imagine the conversation was like in movie Fletch where Chevy Chase asks the parents of the fellow he is investigating. “You and your wife are alive, is that correct?”
So out of a thousand tips from people convinced there was widespread fraud, how many were genuine? One. One fellow filled out two voter registration cards with slight variations of his name. This was so he could vote twice. One fellow. Out of a thousand.
That according to my math, is a very low rate of actual fraud. We are talking about .1% actual crimes against claims. One tenth of one percent. When I was a Kid, we had commercials about Ivory Soap. It was 99 44/100th percent pure. Or 99.44% pure. It was so pure the bar of soap would float in water.
The election in Riverside California was even more pure. It was more than 99.999% pure. If you assume there wasn’t any problem with the remainder of the ballots.
We are humans. Getting something 100% may be a great goal, but realistically it is going to be virtually impossible. We are not God, nor gods.
So why do you want to believe that there was a problem with the election? You like everyone, like me, want to believe you are normal. That most people are. Pretty much like you. We want to believe that the people around us think like we do, and we are no different. So if I can’t imagine a scenario where someone would vote for Biden, then nobody would vote for him. It makes sense. After all I am no different right?
So when it turns out a way we didn’t expect, we have a hard time believing it. Then our choice of news comes into play. And we need to apply massive amounts of cynical doubt to any reports. Especially reports where they keep swearing there is lots of evidence, but never actually produce the evidence.
Think about it this way. Snowden said there was a lot of things going on in the Intel Community that wasn’t supposed to. He proved it by dumping the documents on the press. The idiot in the Texas National Guard said that he had access to secret documents and proved it to his Discord buddies by posting them.
They proved it is the point. The people who keep swearing there was a stolen election keep telling you there is lots of evidence, and overwhelming proof. But they never post it. Cops show you the drugs they seized in a press conference. They show you body camera footage of a shooting to prove what the cop said actually happened. They show you surveillance footage. But the people with all this evidence, never seem to be quite ready to produce it. They don’t produce it in the media, nor in court, nor in public. If you call them on it they tell you it will be released soon, and they are waiting for the right moment. The right moment was a couple years ago.