He was unsuccessful because there have always been many secret & obvious layers of security on these machines. None of which were breached in 2020.
State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the
midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems.
That’s just what election experts had expected and led critics to suggest that the new units were more about politics than rooting out widespread abuses. Most election-related fraud cases already are investigated and prosecuted at the local level.
Florida, Georgia and Virginia created special state-level units after the 2020 election, all pushed by Republican governors, attorneys general or legislatures.
“I am not aware of any significant detection of fraud on Election Day, but that’s not surprising,” said Paul Smith, senior vice president of the Campaign Legal Center. “The whole concept of voter impersonation fraud is such a horribly exaggerated problem. It doesn’t change the outcome of the election, it’s a felony, you risk getting put in jail and you have a high possibility of getting caught. It’s a rare phenomena.”
The absence of widespread fraud is important because
the lies surrounding the
2020 presidential election spread by former President
Donald Trump and his allies have penetrated deeply into the
Republican Party and eroded trust in elections. In the run-up to this year’s elections, 45% of
Republicans had
little to no confidence that votes would be counted accurately.
An Associated Press investigation found there was
no widespread fraud in Georgia or the five other
battleground states where Trump disputed his 2020 loss, and so far there is no indication of that in this year’s elections.
Certification of the results is going smoothly in most states, with few complaints.
Critics complain the new units were more about politics than rooting out any widespread abuses.
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