I have a hard time believing the republican investigations were thorough since democrats would not allow investigators to forensically examine voting machines. Democrats blocked access to voting rolls and the INS refused to allow investigators to access immigration records, so how does anyone know how many illegals were registers and voted? No investigator had sufficient time to examine all signatures and addresses to ensure that crooked ballots were not submitted. No republican I know of referenced the thousands of mimeographed ballots a Georgia judge had to have sealed in a warehouse so nobody could examine them.
The list goes on endlessly. Republicans who claimed they found no fraud quite possibly told the truth. Republicans claiming they proved there was no fraud are lying.
Voting machines examinations were conducted....the objections you are speaking off were probably regarding handing them over to unqualified, unaccredited firms.
In Georgia, again, your own Republican (and Trump voter) had them tested -
Georgia says voting machine audit found no evidence of fraud or tampering
“We are glad but not surprised that the audit of the state’s voting machines was an unqualified success,” Raffensperger, a Republican, said in a press release. “Election security has been a top priority since day one of my administration.”
“We have partnered with the Department of Homeland Security, the Georgia Cyber Center, Georgia Tech security experts, and wide range of other election security experts around the state and country so Georgia voters can be confident that their vote is safe and secure,” he added.
Even Cyber Ninjas, the most pro-Trump audit imaginable, found no fraud. The Arizona Senate Republicans commissioned Cyber Ninjas despite it having no election-auditing experience. Its CEO had tweeted the #StoptheSteal hashtag and had links to prominent pro-Trump conspiracy theorists. It was funded by election deniers and Trump allies. This was the most partisan, Trump-friendly audit possible and even they confirmed Biden won. Cyber Ninjas concluded that Biden had won 360 more votes than the county had awarded him in the official count. Isn't that amazing?
On voter rolls and immigration records: we actually do have states that conducted complete, rigorous reviews. Utah reviewed all 2 million+ registered voters in a multi-step process and found exactly one confirmed noncitizen registration and zero noncitizen votes. Georgia's Republican Secretary of State audited 8.2 million voters and found 20 suspected noncitizens, nine of whom had any voting history. Iowa's initial headline number of 2,176 potential noncitizens shrank to 277 after proper investigation.
Heightened scrutiny has targeted the integrity of election processes, particularly regarding noncitizen participation in U.S. elections. We address four frequently asked questions concerning noncitizens voting in American elections.
bipartisanpolicy.org
No investigator had sufficient time to examine all signatures and addresses to ensure that crooked ballots were not submitted.
You don't really need to examine all of them to get an idea of percentages that might exist within the entire amount if there is enough fraud to change the outcome of an election. A signature audit was conducted in Georgia, and it was rigorous.
Secretary Raffensperger partnered with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to conduct an audit in Cobb County. Of the 150,431 absentee ballots received, the audit reviewed 15,118 ballot oath envelopes from randomly selected boxes -- around 10% of the total. The sample size was chosen to meet the 99% confidence threshold. The audit found "no fraudulent absentee ballots" and found that Cobb County Elections had a 99.99% accuracy rate in performing correct signature verification procedures. The audit found that only two ballots should have been identified by Cobb County Elections Officials for cure notification that weren’t. In one case, the ballot was “mistakenly signed by the elector’s spouse,” and in the other, the voter “reported signing the front of the envelope only.” In both cases, the identified voters filled out the ballots themselves.
No fraudulent absentee ballots were identified during the audit.
sos.ga.gov
The standard of evidence required to justify overturning an election has to be extraordinarily high, because democracy only functions if the loser accepts the result unless proven otherwise. Not suspected otherwise. Not alleged otherwise. Proven. Trump had every resource available, including his own Justice Department, his own intelligence agencies, Republican governors and secretaries of state in the contested states, and over 60 court cases heard by judges from both parties, including judges he himself appointed. None of them found evidence sufficient to overturn anything. At some point, the question stops being "was there fraud?" and starts being "what does it mean that someone attempted to overturn a free election based on claims that his own people repeatedly debunked?" And Trump did not just raise concerns and accept the outcome. He acted on his belief by organizing a fraudulent slate of fake electors in multiple states, an attempt to bypass the legitimate electoral results entirely and hand himself a second term he had not won. Voting him back into office after January 6th has answered that question in a way that every future candidate of either party now knows. You do not need proof. You just need a narrative. That is a far more dangerous precedent than anything alleged about the 2020 election.
