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Still Doubting the 2020 Election
American Thinker ^ | 08/05/2023 | Mike Konrad

Posted on 08/05/2023 5:59:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

NBC is reporting — with a supposed sense of shock — the results of a Monmouth poll that nearly one-third of Americans think the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

And they further reiterate that there is no evidence for fraud.

There's no evidence widespread fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election, but Trump and allies have spent years undercutting the election's legitimacy.

Wow!  It must be so.  The main stream media assure us that the election was honest.  Yet one third of Americans still believe the election was a fraud.

I am shocked, shocked.

Anyone who questions the election result is called a fascist or subjected to a lawsuit or prosecution.  So for the moment, we will not question the integrity of write-in ballots, nor the security of voting machines — to avoid pernicious litigation.

Let us just look at the official results...from the official federal government figures.

In 2016, Donald Trump got 62,984,828 votes, while in 2020, he got 74,223,975 votes — an increase of  11,239,147.

In 2016, the Democrats got 65,853,514 votes, while in 2020, the Democrats got 81,283,501 votes — an increase of 15,429, 987.

Wikipedia's figures are taken from the Federal Elections Commission reports (2016, page 10 and 2020, page 10).

Altogether, 26,669,134 more votes were cast in 2020 than in 2016.  Approximate 20.6% more votes were cast than were cast four years earlier.

Where did these votes come from?

From the figures at macrotrends, from 2016 to 2020, the population of the United States increased by 8,731,805 — roughly one third the increase of voters from 2016.

So we are asked to believe that the voting base increased at three times the rate of the population.  And no one is to question this?  And NBC cannot figure out why so many people are so suspicious?


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; electionfraud
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1 posted on 08/05/2023 5:59:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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1/3rd thinks it was stolen
1/3rd thinks it was stolen but their side won so they don’t care
1/3rd isn’t paying attention


2 posted on 08/05/2023 6:04:16 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: escapefromboston

Wow, that’s pretty much verbatim what I was goint to respond. My last third were going to have IQs under 70.


3 posted on 08/05/2023 6:13:20 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: SeekAndFind
The “election” alleged to be fraudulent has no Constitutional existence. The 50 State Legislatures which appoint 535 Electors (and Congress, which appoints 3) have all adopted the custom of having people voting as the means by which the appointments are normally made, but this creates 51 elections, not one.

Those 51 elections occur at the direction of, and are subservient to, 50 legislatures and Congress. The States unwisely granted Congress 3 Electors by ratifying the XXIII Amendment in 1960, so Congress does have supervisory power OVER THOSE THREE, but not otherwise.

There is only one Presidential election in the Constitution, it takes place in December, there are 538 voters, and in December 2020 Biden got 306 of them and was elected President.

No State Legislature objected that its Electors were not the ones they had appointed. No State Legislature even convened to consider the matter. In the case of Pennsylvania, the Legislature fled to avoid considering the matter.

It has never been alleged that a single one of the 306 votes for Biden/Harris was a forgery, that the Electors who casted them were impersonating someone else, or that the Legislatures had secretly appointed other Electors.

There is zero space for an allegation of fraud in the Constitutional Presidential election of December 14, 2020.

As far as the 51 elections which occurred on November 3, 2020, they may very well have been rife with fraud, but since the appointment power of the 50 State Legislatures (535) and Congress (3) is plenary, that’s a problem for those legislatures to deal with should they choose to do so.

4 posted on 08/05/2023 6:15:12 PM PDT by Jim Noble (He who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: Jim Noble

Thank you.


5 posted on 08/05/2023 6:32:24 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course the electoral college is the thing that really matters, and an analysis of that would be more than I would want to take on.

However, I did run some quick numbers for elections between 1980 and 2020.

My numbers below are a bit of a rehash of the original article, but I did cover Ronald Reagan through to Joe Biden. Forty years of numbers comparing vote counts and population increase.

If the number of votes counted for both Democrats and Republicans in a particular year are compared with the previous election, you get some interesting numbers.

In 2016, the total votes was 128,838,342.
In 2020, the total votes was 155,507,476.

That an increase of 26,669,134.
The voting age population increase was just 8,183,000.

26,669,134 / 8,183,000 = 3.259090065

If you run similar numbers for elections over the past 40 years, the increase in votes cast divided by the voting age population is basically “1”. Sometimes it’s a little less than 1 (0.806176386 in 2008) and sometimes it’s a little more than 1 (1.258499005 in 1984).

2004 is a bit of an anomaly with the number being 2.008309953. No other year has a number that high. Until 2020 and the number is 3.259090065. And in that election, the candidate who campaigned from his basement got the highest count in US history.

That’s weird.


6 posted on 08/05/2023 6:44:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

At least a third of Americans believe our elections are compromised. If they weren’t, the powers that be could assure the public with a full audit. They won’t and shut down anyone who raises a question… and that’s how you know they are.


7 posted on 08/05/2023 6:52:26 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: SeekAndFind
If the 2020 election was stolen, it's because Trump left the garage door open and went on vacation.

The CARES act, that Trump signed, flooded the country with untraceable mail-in ballots and then Trump stupidly told his voters not to use them, but to vote in person instead.

And remember when Rep. Thomas Massie said this was a bad idea? This was Trump's reply:


8 posted on 08/05/2023 7:01:14 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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“There’s no evidence widespread fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election”

1. So now they’re admitting that there was some fraud. Sounds like we’ll be hearing more in that regard.

2. Since there were no investigations, they are technically correct in saying that there was no evidence that widespread fraud affected the 2020 election, but likewise there’s also no evidence that the fraud, now admitted to, DID NOT affect the outcome of the election.


9 posted on 08/05/2023 7:17:42 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: SeekAndFind

if the election was so honest and secure, why did the courts and dems right tooth and nail to stop any organized, systematic investigation? You would think that they would have actually offered to allow such an investigation to take place to reassure people that there wasn’t any massive fraud. But, they have no criminalized doubting the election.


10 posted on 08/05/2023 7:33:33 PM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: SeekAndFind

The simplest way for me to explain my take is to ask “does anyone really believe that Joe Biden got 5 million more votes than Barak Obama”?


11 posted on 08/05/2023 8:09:20 PM PDT by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: SeekAndFind

Has anyone seen this interview from this week with Jan Halper-Hayes? Listen to what she says especially at 2 minutes and at 5 minutes about the military having the real election results. She seems certain that Trump won. Would like to hear people’s thoughts.


12 posted on 08/05/2023 8:17:46 PM PDT by TheChief2005
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Sorry, I forgot the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=l0WacP1CrWY&fbclid=IwAR31feOV9zkuN_IQnwOrBEw1vV7fobcqBRYXdwSKjYCsjtF7C4_zEtgvAnY


13 posted on 08/05/2023 8:18:59 PM PDT by TheChief2005
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To: Jim Noble
Mike Pence ADMITS That Trump Is INNOCENT
...which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the House of Representatives...

All those words blown away in one short comment.

14 posted on 08/05/2023 9:42:40 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: TheChief2005

Biden even said he had the biggest voter fraud operation ever created.


15 posted on 08/05/2023 9:45:17 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: SeekAndFind
There's no evidence widespread fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election,

Weasel words again from the media.That statement on its face is true. It was not widespread fraud the affected the outcome. It was the specific limited fraud targeted in specific counties in the swing states.

16 posted on 08/05/2023 9:49:08 PM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: TheChief2005
Has anyone seen this interview from this week with Jan Halper-Hayes?

I have now.

Would like to hear people’s thoughts.
Thanks for the link. Nice video.
Singing to the choir, but the host reactions were priceless.

650 planes removing our gold from the Vatican was news to me.

17 posted on 08/05/2023 9:55:41 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: TheCipher
It was the specific limited fraud targeted in specific counties in the swing states.

It was the specific targeted fraud limited in specific counties in the swing states.

JMO, YMMV

18 posted on 08/05/2023 10:00:27 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: TheChief2005
I'm somehow reminded of the Cheshire Cat...

19 posted on 08/05/2023 10:04:15 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

I like the term “surgically targeted fraud.”


20 posted on 08/05/2023 10:06:19 PM PDT by thecodont
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