American Consequences - November 2020

also has witnesses in Wisconsin and Georgia. The irregularities include dead people being recorded as having voted, minors voting, and thousands of former Nevada residents who appear to have moved out of the state but were recorded as voting there. All of these cases should rightly be investigated on the basis of their merits. And Attorney General William Barr has authorized the Department of Justice to investigate “substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities” since election fraud is both a federal and state crime. So theoretically, state authorities may not be able to certify their elections until these investigations bear fruit. Although the clock is ticking until the December Electoral College vote. What is the problem? Is this just a redux of the “hanging chads” debacle of 2000, which saw Al Gore contest the election results for 38 days until the Supreme Court settled the matter in favor of President George W. Bush? Hardly. More disturbing than isolated or specific incidents of election fraud is the behavior of local authorities during the ballot counts, especially in the pivotal Keystone State of Pennsylvania. With arguments over how long to wait for the millions of mail-in ballots to arrive and what date stamp to recognize, the Supreme Court was asked to decide before the election

cast their votes for Trump or Biden. Until then, there is constitutionally no

president-elect, just a real president – a man named Donald Trump, who can still become the legitimate president-elect should he have a certified win. But before that can happen, a few other things have to fall in place... First, each state must certify their elections. This is usually a function of the secretary of state, chief clerk, or respective electoral authority. Given the claims of irregularities in key battleground states and a recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, that may take some doing. What is the problem? Is this just a redux of the “hanging chads” debacle of 2000, which saw Al Gore contest the election results for 38 days until the Supreme Court settled the matter in favor of President George W. Bush? Hardly. That was about the votes in one state, albeit the crucial one of Florida. This year, America witnessed controversies in multiple states, notably with four battleground states, which were trending for President Trump on the night of the November 3. As counting in those states dragged on over days and days... the president’s lead was gradually lost. But slow vote counting is not the real issue. The president’s personal attorney – former mayor of New York and U.S. Associate Attorney General Rudy Giuliani – has said the Trump campaign has as many as 70 witness who claim knowledge of voting irregularities in Pennsylvania. Giuliani said he

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