George Rebane
Why not indeed? The existential evidence abounds of election fraud and irregularities having happened. It exists just for the looking in forms of
- witnessed and sworn affidavits of polling place and vote counting wrongdoings;
- witnessed and video records of after-hours arrivals of thousands of unmailed ballots in unmarked vehicles;
- mass arrivals of ballots supporting Biden that fail simple statistical tests that attest to their numerical authenticity;
- demonstrated ease with which voting machine counts could be manipulated;
- recorded denials of access to vote processing observers;
- obvious gross numerical discrepancies between registered voters and votes cast;
Uncounted complaints of these infractions and irregularities have been filed across the land, and all have been rejected by our already dubious judicial system, not for lack of evidence, but on procedural grounds. And these procedural grounds smell to high heaven that include the scurrilous use of ‘lack of standing’ of the plaintiff. The legal notion of standing has no basis in constitutional law, and was only concocted in the 1920s to reduce an overly burdened case load on the courts as a means of avoiding/reducing adjudications.
What no court has done is to examine the evidence in open court and find any of it lacking in form, substance, and/or credibility. In fact, the opposite findings have been issued to the effect that the unexamined evidence, even if verified, would not have materially changed the election’s outcome. That is both false and a lie on the face of the vote counts presented in the reams of existing evidence. And whether or not the evidence would change the election’s outcome is immaterial as a point of law. What is important is to examine and conclude on the verity of the irregularities in the November election, and then prepare feasible remedies so that these will not be repeated in future elections.
All of this should be done in order to restore bipartisan confidence in our elections, especially the last one that saw copious amounts of dubious votes arrive in the dark of night to be surreptitiously counted in favor of the Democratic candidate. So now on 6 January 2021, Congress will meet to go through what has been a pro forma certification of the electoral college votes. However, this time dozens of Republican congress critters will rise to object to the electoral college counts.
Given the behavior of the courts, many Republican MOCs maintain with Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) that “At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections, but Congress has so far failed to act.” Today’s count is fluid, but upwards of 140 MOCs now say they are willing to join in the rejection of electoral college votes, and demand that the collected evidence of fraud see the light of day.
Meanwhile leftwing propaganda organs like the LA Times maintain that “there is no evidence of voter fraud and the integrity of the election has been repeatedly affirmed at the state level, in the courts and in Washington.” Joining in accepting the current election results, no matter how marred, are members of the Republican congressional leadership led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
But given the highly polarized state of the nation and the countless controversies surrounding this election, the simple question remains, ‘Why not look at the evidence?’
Here and here are two recent, extensively referenced reports by John Lott and Peter Navarro that present in detail the case to be made for the existence, scope, and authenticity of the current body of election fraud evidence. How would you judge an appeals process that dismisses even considering the examination of evidence only on the basis of the plaintiffs not having said the appropriate ‘Mother may I?’ at some point in bringing it to the attention of the courts?
[7jan21 update] More light on the matter from the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society is presented in 'Set In Stone? – A Historical, Constitutional, and Legal examination of Electoral College Deadlines and their implications for the 2020 Presidential Election' Download Electoral_College_Deadlines_White_Paper.
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