2020 election - Zoe Dune2024-03-29T12:11:16Zhttps://zoedune.com/opinion/feed/tag/2020+electionTrump's Year of Voter Fraudhttps://zoedune.com/opinion/trumps-year-of-voter-fraud2020-11-04T07:27:03.000Z2020-11-04T07:27:03.000ZSurvival Journalismhttps://zoedune.com/members/survivaljournalism<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8121457276?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>As of this writing, the race for the White House has tightened-up between Biden and Trump.</p>
<p>While it might not make a difference to some that thousands of ballots have been lost against the millions of put in, we've already seen a great surge of voter suppression, voter intimidation, and ballot tampering during this election year alone.</p>
<p>Thanks to President Trump encouraging his loyal supporters to sabotage the democratic process, we've had the theft of <strong><a href="https://www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-generals-office-and-glendale-police-department-return-stolen-ballots">20 ballots</a></strong> which were recently found.</p>
<p>And then we have a case where a likely Trump-loyalist spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service was unaware of any significant delays or issues in regards to reports that <strong><a href="https://triblive.com/local/regional/potentially-thousands-of-requested-mail-ballots-lost-in-butler-county-official-says/">thousands and requested ballots lost</a></strong> were lost.</p>
<p>Quoting the article by <em>Triblive</em>:</p>
<blockquote><span style="font-size:18pt;">"Nearly 40,000 registered voters in the county requested mail ballots. So far, only 24% of them have been returned to the county, by far the lowest rate among the state’s 67 counties. The county with the next-lowest return rate, Fayette, has received 50% of requested ballots."</span></blockquote>
<p>The United States Postal Service spokesperson referred to in the article, David Partenheimer was the spokesperson long before Trump entered office.</p>
<p>We've already seen however, Trump fire many government employees who were there before his administration for disloyalty to him.</p>
<p>It's therefore reasonable to assume that Partenheimer would want to keep his job by siding with whatever Trump says.</p>
<p>David's boss was the former Post Master General Megan Brennen.</p>
<p>She was <strong><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-head-to-retire-11571251002" target="_blank">set to retire in January</a> </strong>but the administration delayed her retirement to replace her with Louis DeJoy who is a Trump loyalist and the mail service has <strong><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mail-service-deteriorated-after-postmaster-general-louis-dejoys-arrival-watchdog-found-11603384937" target="_blank">deteriorated significantly</a></strong> since his appointment.</p>
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<p>It's also not surprising that the Trump-infected postal service intentionally missed the court-ordered <strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/03/election-ballot-delays-usps/">deadline to recover missing ballots</a></strong> and pushing such deadlines is one of his administration's tactics in other cases in order to stress the court system and drag out cases.</p>
<p>Then there are reports of Republicans attempting to make it more difficult for people <strong><a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/11/03/pa-provisional-ballot-lawsuit/">to get provisional ballots.</a></strong></p>
<p>Texas Republicans also <strong><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/federal-judge-rejects-texas-republicans-bid-toss-127-000-drive-n1245828">tried to have 127,000 drive-thru ballots tossed</a> </strong>which was thankfully defeated by the court.</p>
<p>When you add these up, there are significantly a large number of ballots lost that could have made a difference in the election, securing an advantage to Trump.</p>
<p>Even worse is that the votes of many people being 20 to thousands don't seem to matter to this administration and his followers.</p>
<p>Thus, it would appear that his efforts to commit every type of voter fraud has actually worked.</p>
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