Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Election Fraud Problems Are A Threat To Our Country — And Too Important To Be Left To Conspiracy Theorists
The Federalist ^ | November 23, 2020 | Christopher Bedford

Posted on 11/23/2020 7:28:39 AM PST by Kaslin


On Friday, Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell told The Blaze’s Glenn Beck “our forces” have confiscated a voting company server in Germany linked to alleged pro-Joe Biden fraud committed by Dominion Voting Systems. Both the military and the voting company in question have denied this claim.

On Saturday, Powell said Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and his secretary of state are “in on the Dominion scam” and they ought to be investigated for “financial benefit received about that time.”

On Sunday, President Donald Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis released an official statement disassociating Powell from the campaign’s efforts. This came as news to every single person watching, including those still involved in Trump’s re-election campaign.

When Frank Luntz, a TV gadfly and Republican pollster, pointed out how difficult it is to accept this late-in-the-game distancing, Ellis accused him of having a “micro penis.”

There’s a problem here, and it’s more than the tens of millions of dollars hopeful Americans have poured into a legal fight they feel is necessary to securing the future of our elections. The problem is this battle is far too important to be buried by conspiracy-theory accusations from the left and its media, which means it’s far too important to be left to conspiracy theorists.

Election fraud is not just a real issue, it is a deadly serious one to the future of our country. Original reporting at The Federalist and a number of other outlets has unearthed sprawling voter distrust born of first-hand experience with fraud after fraud after fraud in major Democratic machine cities.

It isn’t simply the dead voting, the living’s votes counting for candidates they did not vote for, and voters who didn’t even cast ballots counting for candidates they did not vote for — it’s difficult-to-impossible to unscramble mail-in ballots coming in after legal deadlines and counting anyway; it’s a systemic barring of supervision and oversight; it’s judges re-writing legal voting laws in the name of mass COVID-19 hysteria.

These problems are real and deserve real and deeply careful attention. If fraud continues without consequence, the United States’ entire system for the peaceful transfer of power is threatened by the shaken trust and faith peaceful transfer of power demand.

In just more than six weeks, Georgia heads to two run-off elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. In less than two years, the entire country heads to elections that will decide control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress. Beyond that, Americans will continue to vote in election after election. How can these essential self-governance contests be taken seriously if voters are concerned they can’t trust if American laws will be upheld, fraud exposed, criminals held accountable, and elections trusted?

There are short-term fixes. Across the board, the Democratic Party has used exaggerated and irrational fears of COVID-19 to accomplish a veritable wish-list of election demands, and the George legislature must convene an emergency session to undo judges’ orders on mass mail-in voting in time for the January election. Beyond that, accusations need to be pursued carefully and with force of law — not television bluster and internet conspiracy.

But before any of this, the Trump campaign legal team needs to stop the TV and Twitter theater; and pretending Powell was never really there isn’t remotely going to cut it.

It’s well-accepted both inside and outside campaign and serious election circles that once the vast majority of illegally counted votes are in the mix, it’s next to impossible to remove them beyond getting a federal judge to order a complete re-do on a state’s election. In the Trump campaign’s case, this would require multiple federal judges committing to multiple states redoing their elections. This isn’t going to happen — the crimes will not be undone in any kind of a meaningfully result-altering way.

What remains is ensuring they never happen at anywhere near this level again, and that is a realistic goal, but not an easy one. It will take time, diligence, courage, force of law, and careful, strategic movements by true professionals. And unfortunately for the president’s quite possibly robbed campaign, it will take moving on to the next fight.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; arizona; atlanta; detroit; donaldtrump; electionfraud; fraud; georgia; jennaellis; joebiden; michigan; pennsylvania; philadelphia; rudygiuliani; sidneypowell; thedirtyparty; theuniparty; vote; voterfraud

1 posted on 11/23/2020 7:28:39 AM PST by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

That micro penis comment was ridiculous given the gravity of the situation and who she is representing.


2 posted on 11/23/2020 7:35:08 AM PST by RummyChick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The criminals must not be rewarded with the things that they cheated to get. Only if SCOTUS cares about upholding the LAW in this country, will this election be considered clean and fair. Revolting may have to happen to assure over half the population. Revolting in every state that is proven to be cheating. With Roberts as CJ, I won’t hold my breath.


3 posted on 11/23/2020 7:36:40 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
What planet has the author of this article lived on for the past half decade ?

The Dems have used COVID as cover for weaponizing the last existential barrier to one party Federal rule, elections.

Why else did they attach mail in voting to virtually every COVID-19 related bill ?

And John Roberts abided and abetted them by refusing to hear a case in PA which guaranteed illegal votes are in their current tally.

4 posted on 11/23/2020 7:39:41 AM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHIN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

P


5 posted on 11/23/2020 7:40:55 AM PST by bitt (The left gave us 4 years of Pearl Harbor. Now its time to give them Hiroshima.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SecondAmendment

Sounds like this Christopher Bedford is dirty...


6 posted on 11/23/2020 7:44:17 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

“And unfortunately for the president’s quite possibly robbed campaign, it will take moving on to the next fight.”

Because the Democrats will cheat less next time.


7 posted on 11/23/2020 7:44:40 AM PST by MNDude
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

“When Frank Luntz, a TV gadfly and Republican pollster, pointed out how difficult it is to accept this late-in-the-game distancing, Ellis accused him of having a “micro penis.””

😂


8 posted on 11/23/2020 7:52:12 AM PST by MNDude
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Meaningful election reform will be resisted by both major parties.


9 posted on 11/23/2020 7:56:31 AM PST by GSWarrior
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MNDude
>“And unfortunately for the president’s quite possibly robbed campaign, it will take moving on to the next fight."

That is January in GA, where the Dems will take the two Senate using the same Dominion Systems hacks they used to steal the Presidential race, but this time they will also steal the Senate filibuster, pack SCOTUS, and add two more states to cement complete, total, and permanent Federal control.

So it imperative this fraud gets caught and remedied immediately, losing the Presidential race to fraud is not a battle we can regroup from, IT MEANS LOSING THE WAR.

10 posted on 11/23/2020 8:03:34 AM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHIN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The author forgot EO 13848, about the foreign meedling in elections.


11 posted on 11/23/2020 8:09:18 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MNDude
Because the Democrats will cheat less next time.

Yeah, this Christopher Bedford guy is an airhead.

Also, Chrissie's "next fight" assumes that REAL conservatives like me are going to show up in the 2021-2022 shieldwalls after watching the GOPee willingly take it up the keester like The Gimp in Pulp Fiction.

12 posted on 11/23/2020 8:15:28 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The Federalist is usually an outstanding publication with exceptional writers.

This guy needs to be fired as soon as possible, to prevent any further tarnishing of their brand.

Unless this is the first indication of their shift to the dark side...


13 posted on 11/23/2020 8:19:53 AM PST by Golden Eagle (List of Cable News Alternatives ----> http://freerepublic.com/~goldeneagle/ <----)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: originalbuckeye
Original reporting at The Federalist and a number of other outlets has unearthed sprawling voter distrust born of first-hand experience with fraud after fraud after fraud in major Democratic machine cities. It isn’t simply the dead voting, the living’s votes counting for candidates they did not vote for, and voters who didn’t even cast ballots...

Must NOT be rewarded...is right...

VOTER FRAUD UNDERMINES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

14 posted on 11/23/2020 8:30:04 AM PST by GOPJ (VOTER FRAUD UNDERMINES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Article below makes the point, why are they going after Powell and Trump’s other lawyers now?

~~~
Title: If Media Didn’t Think Trump Could Win, It Wouldn’t be Targeting his Lawyers Fri Nov 13, 2020
Daniel Greenfield

“The media keeps claiming that President Trump can’t win, that his legal challenges are futile, hollow, and have absolutely no chance of winning in court. And, it’s also launching a full-scale Jihad against those law firms and lawyers participating in legal challenges against the election results.

This harassment, which includes threats to the licenses of lawyers who represent Republican clients, is an unprecedented violation of political norms. But it’s also a tell.

Yes, Going After Trump’s Law Firms is Fair Game - Washington Post

Pressure Mounts on Attorneys Lodging US Election Fraud Claims - Connecticut Law Tribune

No Self-Respecting Lawyer Should Touch Trump’s Election-Fraud Claims - The Atlantic

Another Law Firm Bails Out on Trump Campaign - Politico

Why go all-out, launching a boycott campaign targeting Jones Day, and doxxing lawyers, if the whole thing is futile? If Trump can’t win, then conservatives are just wasting money that won’t be spent on protecting the Senate majority in Georgia?


15 posted on 11/23/2020 8:39:40 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

‘Conspiracy theorists’ have been calling “Shenanigans!” for decades.
If people like this jerkwad had listened back then we wouldn’t be ‘conspiracy theorists’ and we wouldn’t have this issue today.


16 posted on 11/23/2020 8:59:16 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

I apologize for the ridiculous autocorrect in my earlier post. I had typed REVOTING. Twice. And twice they changed REVOTING to Revolting. There should be new elections in the states that are proven to have used the Dominion hack to turf Trump votes to Biden. Period.


17 posted on 11/23/2020 9:56:41 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Do you really think the Dems and their Pravda Media, along with all the corrupt Leftists and squishy Republicans, will actually LET the 2 Senators win in GA???

What a farce our country has turned into.....there will never again
be a free and fair election in this country.-


18 posted on 11/23/2020 9:10:18 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson