Alternative Explanations

For John, BLUF:  Yes, I worry about vote fraud and I especially worry about voting machines with proprietary software.  But there are also other explanations.♠  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Real Kraken: What Really Happened to Donald Trump in the 2020 Election

From PJ Mediaby, Mr J Christian Adams, 2 December 2020.

Here is the lede plus ten:

Eric Holder was a big loser on election night.  He was the guy raising tens of millions of dollars to make America safe for Democratic redistricting.  A red wave turned Holder’s dreams into dust in state legislative races.  State legislatures are where the redistricting action is, and the GOP flipped three chambers red, gaining 192 state house seats and 40 state senate seats nationwide.

Republicans now control both House and Senate chambers in 31 states.  The country is a huge swath of red legislative control with Democrats largely confined to the cultural monoliths on the Pacific coast and urban Northeast.

The red wave extended to the United States House of Representatives, where for now, Republicans have gained nine seats.

But this wasn’t supposed to happen.  The president isn’t supposed to lose when all the Republicans are winning.

Something’s fishy.

Indeed, something profoundly fishy happened in the 2020 election, but it wasn’t the Kraken or Venezuelan communists running remote software when they can’t even make the red lights work in their own country.  Those shiny objects will play out with time and examination of evidence.

What happened in 2020 is something more fundamental and profound.  What happened in 2020 is cultural and systemic, and sadly, generally legal.  Until Republicans, and more importantly Trump supporters, understand what happened to them this year, it will happen again.

Two things happened in 2020.  First, COVID led to a dismantling of state election integrity laws by everyone except the one body with the constitutional prerogative to change the rules of electing the president – the state legislatures.

Second, the Center for Technology and Civic Life happened.

If you are focused on goblins in the voting machines but don’t know anything about the CTCL and what they did to defeat Donald Trump, it’s time to up your game.

The Center for Technology and Civic Life and allied groups are responsible for building an urban get-out-the-vote-machine of the sort that Democrats could only dream up on a bender fueled by jugs of Merlot and all the legalized pot they could smoke.

Then he explains it.

And a very convincing argument it is.  With enough money local election efforts in Democratic strongholds became powerful get out the vote machines and then got out the vote.

Election Offices in cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Minniapolist and Atlanta are basically part of the Democratic machine.  They just made sure all the citizen who could did indeed vote.  Mail out ballots and ballot harvesting.  Not designed to ensure the integrity of the vote, but, backed by activist judges, designed to create as many ballots as possible.

I just hope that over the next two years state and national legislators turn to and give us a renewed voting system which the vast majority of us can have faith in, one that enfranchises all those eligible and does not disenfranchise or diminish the vote of all legitimate voters.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  The very idea that voting software would be "proprietary" and thus not subject to examination and qualification by local government agencies (Verification and Validation, followed by Accreditation) is disgusting and anti-American.