In the early morning hours of Nov. 4, 2020, then-President Trump began speculating that votes were stolen from him in certain counties and states. He has only amplified these false claims since giving the White House over to President Biden.
To be sure, some counties and states discovered voting “irregularities.” But the question was to prove whether those irregularities rose to a level where the outcome in a certain locale could be challenged, or even reversed. (Answer: They didn't) The burden of proof fell to Trump and his supporters, and they failed a number of times to prove their contentions — embarrassingly so, considering Trump put forth Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell as the faces of his defense team.
That said, the charges, countercharges and deeply polarized political atmosphere have caused the thought to cross my mind — as I’m sure it has for other Americans: “What would happen if, with some future election, it were proven that a presidential candidate and his team managed to successfully ‘steal’ an election but were found out after taking office?”
Some may want to deny it purely for partisan reasons, but the fact of the matter is that electronic voting, mail-in ballots and “harvested” ballots can potentially be manipulated. Even without those, voter fraud is as old as the voting process itself.
At the moment, I am re-reading what I consider to be one of the greatest political memoirs of all time: “A Political Education” by Harry McPherson.
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