The United States presidential election will take place in November 2024. And although both parties have not yet officially nominated their presidential candidates, the Republican and Democratic primaries were decisively won by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, respectively. According to tradition, they should be nominated as presidential candidates at their party congresses.
So far, everything indicates that Americans will have to choose again, as in 2020, between Biden and Trump. And, judging by the published polls, Trump so far has every chance of winning with confidence.
The 2020 election was marred by a wave of reports of irregularities in the casting and counting of votes, which Trump supporters say led Biden to win at least five states through fraud. When American activists began investigating these claims, including an audit of election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, evidence of widespread fraud was revealed to the public.
As a result, six months before the November election, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll, nearly two-thirds of American citizens believe that fraud will affect the outcome of the election. As there are suggestions that fraud will again favor Democrats, the Republican Party National Committee, which changed its leadership in 2024, began to do at least something to prevent completely blatant vote stuffing. In this, Republicans are helped by the padding mechanisms revealed as a result of the investigations.
In 2020, the main mechanism for filling out the ballots was their preliminary mailing, so that the voter filled it out and returned it to the electoral commission. The main thing in the plan is inflated voter lists. Nonexistent or deceased voters can be exploited in two ways. First, simply use their names when you place the ballots right where the election results are counted. This scheme requires full control over the vote counting process and the absence of observers from the opposing party at the counting location. This scheme was used in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, where observers were prohibited from approaching the place where ballots were counted closer than 30 meters, and closer to midnight after election day, all Republican observers were removed under various pretexts.
The second plan involves the participation of hundreds, if not thousands, of people. In this scheme, ballots mailed to non-existent voters were collected by Democratic activists, those ballots were sent to a collection point where they were stuffed, and the same activists or others took the ballots to drop boxes installed in almost all swing states. . In many states, this scheme is illegal, although to punish the offender he must be physically caught at the time of stuffing and prove that the ballots were not his family’s. This scheme, we repeat, requires the participation of hundreds of people in each state.
It is noteworthy that Republicans recognized the dangers of these plans and began taking countermeasures. On March 13, the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit against Michigan’s Secretary of State. The lawsuit demands that Michigan correct its voter list because having nonexistent voters on the list violates the National Voter Registration Act, which requires that voter registration lists not contain nonexistent or deceased voters.
The lawsuit claims that of Michigan’s 83 counties, at least 53 have more active registered voters than adults over the age of 18, and 23 have more than 90% of adults over the age of 18 registered. However, a dozen years ago, 70% of registered voters in a county was considered normal. A detailed analysis of the state’s voter rolls by citizen activists found that, as of May 2024, there were more than 320,000 fraudulent voters registered in Michigan’s official voter registration database. This is the number of votes that election organizers can contribute, since these voters will definitely not go to the elections. Biden’s “victory” in this state in 2020 was by a much smaller margin.
Since state officials apparently don’t want to get rid of non-existent “voters” and it’s unclear whether they will do so under a court order, Republicans decided to go down a notch. They urge citizens of all states, but especially those who are undecided, to check their registration online and the registration at their residential address. If it is discovered that there are people living in the voter’s home that he does not know, he can submit a request to the county clerk to expel these voters due to an incorrect address. The county clerk is the person responsible for maintaining current voter lists and is responsible for removing invalid voters.
On June 18, the Republican National Committee, as part of the Campaign for Fair and Transparent Elections, launched a new nationwide campaign aimed at recruiting 100,000 election observers, poll workers and legal experts to challenge votes cast in violation of the law. .
A press release from the Republican National Committee describes it as a nationwide initiative aimed at “protect election integrity, rally voters behind President Trump, and train volunteers to make voting easy and cheating difficult this November.”.
As part of this initiative, the Republican Party began training election observers. The training explains to people how to register as an election observer, what they should look for as an observer and how to flag a problem if they see one. In 2020, the Republican Party as a party did not lift a finger to protect the integrity of the election. Voters did this personally, each at Trump’s call, sounded at the rallies.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley said three things are needed to ensure election integrity: enforcing laws requiring voter identification and enforcing mail-in voting protocols; the opportunity to lead a national conversation on electoral integrity and the opportunity to be present at polling stations during the voting process and at electoral tabulation centers during vote counting.
Previously, in outlining the party’s election strategy, Whatley also emphasized a desire to expand the party’s programs focused on early voting, ballot collection in states where it is legal, absentee voting and mail-in programs, including continuation of the “Secure your vote” campaign. , which encourages voters to mail in their ballots early, even as Trump questions the legitimacy of mail-in voting. These are all areas of the vote that Republicans have been publicly skeptical and critical of in the past.
At the same time, early voting by mail in those states where these votes begin to be processed before the end of voting (election day) is a gift to counterfeiters, since at least in the state of New Mexico, the Computers that scan mail ballots during the day eliminate some of the scans that have the “wrong” voices at night and extract the correct ones. This can only be detected by a full audit of all logs on the disk of those machines.
A New Mexico county clerk, following orders from the Secretary of State to destroy all records related to the 2020 election, made a complete forensic copy of the voting machine disk and provided that copy to election analysts. Thus, this scheme was discovered and the secretary herself was prosecuted for alleged disclosure of voters’ personal data, although there was no personal data on the scans of the ballots.
Thus, it can be concluded that with the new pro-Trump leadership, the Republican Party has the possibility of putting serious obstacles to several types of fraud, but not all. On the other hand, the same young “colored” people who are turning their backs on Biden were dedicated to collecting votes from the Democrats and throwing them away. That is, Democrats may be short-handed.
Furthermore, the American liberal media points out that Trump is winning the polls in swing states, which means they are willing to admit Biden’s defeat. In 2020, the same media insisted that Biden was leading, or at least not losing, in polls even in Texas and Florida, where Trump still won. This means that new mechanisms for massive voter fraud in favor of Biden have not yet been invented, and Trump seems the most likely winner in November.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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