Auditing Biden’s ‘Victory’: A veteran auditor lays it all out. By Bruce Bawer.
Veteran MBA and CPA and retired auditor Joseph Fried, in his book Debunked: A Professional Auditor Reviews the 2020 Election, has written what must surely be the definitive work on the 2020 US election.
Throughout the book, Fried’s objective is to “analyze the major claims of fraud or irregularity, the credibility of those claims, the available evidence, and the threshold audit standards the states applied, or should have applied, relative to those claims.” …
In some cases, an election result cries out for an audit. One test is statistical likelihood. The 2020 election, as it turns out, failed this test spectacularly. … For forty years, nineteen bellwether counties around the country have correctly predicted the ultimate winner of the presidential sweepstakes – and who won eighteen of them in 2020? Trump. …
Not in 150 years has a candidate whose vote total jumped as much as Trump’s did from one election to the next ended up losing the election. … Rarely has a president lost a re-election bid even as his party picked up seats in the House. Then there’s the blatantly obvious difference in voter enthusiasm between Trump — with his epic campaign rallies — and Biden, whose events sometimes seemed to draw more journalists than voters. …
None of this, Fried underscores, proves anything. But all of it points to the urgent need for a legitimate audit. …
Some states even sent out unsolicited ballots to every registered voter. All of these actions were blatant invitations to massive fraud. Republicans who protested were condemned as racist reactionaries – even though most countries in “progressive” Western Europe ban absentee ballots entirely for resident citizens, and those that do allow them are much stricter in distributing them. …
In many locations, there was large-scale “vote harvesting” – the practice, by political operatives, of going door-to-door to collect voters’ completed absentee ballots and then delivering them (perhaps intact, perhaps not) to the appropriate polling place. And a number of state governments – often at the last minute – made illegal changes in election procedures. …
A New York Post reporter interviewed a New Jersey Democrat who professed to run a ballot-harvesting operation whose participants collected voters’ completed mail-in ballots, took them out of their envelopes, discarded the ones containing votes for Trump, replaced them with new ballots marked with votes for Biden, then sent them in to be counted. The man running this scheme told the Post reporter that he knew of anti-Trump postal workers who’d thrown out ballots en masse in Trump-friendly neighborhoods. …
In several swing states there were sudden late-night jumps in voting tallies, all of them massively favoring Biden, and many of them occurring after a mysterious period during which vote counting, or at least vote reporting, stopped.
In no fewer than 353 counties in 29 states, there turned out to be more registered voters than voting-age citizens. …
Yes, Trump’s lawyers have lost dozens of election challenges in courts – but it’s rarely mentioned that he’s lost most of them “on the basis of procedure or process.” Of the thirty cases decided on merit, notes Fried, Trump won 22.
Yes, election-security “experts” were quick, after Biden’s 2020 upset, to dismiss concerns about election fraud as “conspiracy theories.” Yet as Fried points out, it takes weeks after an election to discern where there has been fraud. (Fried also reminds us that several dozen so-called intelligence “experts” similarly attested that the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.) …
The question marks raised by all the apparent shenanigans that he itemizes make it impossible to say with any confidence that Joe Biden really won the White House – at least not until the elections in all six of the states that Fried discusses here have been subjected to a real, complete audit.
Much more at the link.
We will never know who really won, for sure. Much of the evidence is routinely discarded after two years. Many of Trump’s court cases were put aside because there was no reasonable remedy — once illegal votes are mixed in with the legal votes, how can it be undone? Counting machine irregularities are very difficult to prove because of their ephemeral electronic nature, though the circumstantial evidence is strong. The very widespread cheating by every available means is like being attacked by a swarm of bees — proving just a few acts of cheating isn’t enough.
But like most of the US electorate in polls, we think the result was definitely tainted and probably wrong. Certainly the Democrats have been acting guilty ever since.
(How did most of the electorate figure that out, given that every voice in the media has been loudly asserting that the election was fair, and rudely name-calling anyone who disagreed? Oh, how the narrative people must wish they could control all of the Internet. They’re working on it.)
