Posted on 07/19/2022 11:51:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Moving on does not mean Americans should forget the lessons of the 2020 election.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on July 8 that the ballot drop boxes used in the 2020 election were illegal and harmed Wisconsin voters. Not surprisingly, the media has spun the opinion as a mere change of rules concerning future elections, ignoring the rebuke to the practice in prior elections. The New York Times wrote, “The 4-to-3 ruling by the court’s conservative majority will take effect in time for Wisconsin’s primary elections next month.”
The case involved two memos authored by the Wisconsin Elections Commission which attempted to supplant Wisconsin law with rules allowing drop boxes and delivery of ballots by people other than voters. The court held that the memos “are invalid because ballot drop boxes are illegal under Wisconsin statutes. An absentee ballot must be returned by mail or the voter must personally deliver it to the municipal clerk . . .” The memos encouraged “creative solutions” to facilitate the use of ballot drop boxes and permitted the boxes to be “unstaffed.”
Over the objection of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which fought to preserve ballot drop boxes, the court found Wisconsin voters had suffered real material injury that gave them standing to challenge the illegal ballot boxes.
The erosion of the system itself causes injury to all voters, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled, adding:
In contrast, the failure to follow election laws is a fact which forces everyone—even DSCC—to question the legitimacy of election results. Electoral outcomes obtained by unlawful procedures corrupt the institution of voting, degrading the very foundation of free government. Unlawful votes do not dilute lawful votes so much as they pollute them, which in turn pollutes the integrity of the results.
Worse yet, the use of the ballot drop boxes makes fraud harder to detect. “There is nothing in the record before us to indicate that any of [the absentee ballots] were actually tampered with by any unauthorized person,” the court noted, “but it is entirely obvious that the opportunity to do so was present.” Further: “When the level of pollution is high enough, the fog creates obscurity, and the institution of voting loses its credibility as a method of ensuring the people’s continued consent to be governed.”
The court further opined, “purity and integrity of elections is a matter of such prime importance, and affects so many important interests, that the courts ought never to hesitate, when the opportunity is offered, to test them by the strictest legal standards.”
The court cautioned that the road to tyranny begins with the manipulation of election rules.
Report Ad Report Ad If the right to vote is to have any meaning at all, elections must be conducted according to law. Throughout history, tyrants have claimed electoral victory via elections conducted in violation of governing law. For example, Saddam Hussein was reportedly elected in 2002 by a unanimous vote of all eligible voters in Iraq (11,445,638 people) . . . The right to vote presupposes the rule of law governs elections. If elections are conducted outside of the law, the people have not conferred their consent on the government. Such elections are unlawful and their results are illegitimate.
Unfortunately, once an election victory has transpired with the assistance of illegal ballot-gathering techniques, it’s nearly impossible to correct the contamination. The court noted, “The illegality of these drop boxes weakens the people’s faith that the election produced an outcome reflective of their will.” According to the New York Times, “It is not possible to determine precisely how many Wisconsin votes were cast through drop boxes in 2020. About 40 percent of votes cast were absentee, though that figure includes ballots returned in the mail and during in-person early voting.”
One is reminded of the ballot harvesting scandal unearthed by Project Veritas in neighboring Minnesota. A Project Veritas video shows an alleged harvester, Liban Mohamed, in possession of multiple ballots (he claimed 300 in the video) all for a candidate he supported. As the New York Post reported, Minnesota, like Wisconsin, prohibits individuals from handling more than three individual ballots.
It should be noted that the irregularities described in the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision do not contain a finding of voter fraud. But the failure to follow anti-fraud rules predictably causes disappointed voters to wonder whether the final outcome might have been more reliable had those rules been followed.
It’s too late to fix what happened in 2020. But moving on does not mean Americans should forget the lessons of the 2020 election.
Tainted is the new stolen.
Stolen won’t help. Getting rid of them will. So will putting it behind us.
Look-we got them still talking about Russian collusion. Have some fun with their shit when the boxes are taken away in red states. Then go to work on the blue and purple ones.
Better late than never.
The votes stolen by Dominion machines dwarf those stolen via drop boxes.
maryland primary vote today... they asked me if i wanted an electric ballot or manual... then i scanned it into a computer to tally it...
that is where the counting takes place.
Smartmatic/Dominion was rigged before. Drop boxes are a joke as there is no postmark plus more. Any reasonable person knows the election was fake.
Slowly but surly the 2022 election will have given it to the winners by fraudulent voting but like Harry Reid said when it was proven he lied when he said Mitt Romney didn’t pay his taxes: “Well, he lost didn’t he?” The courts will probably say: Sure he won by cheating but after being sworn in, you can’t remove him”
Knowing Romney, he probably told his fellow Mormon to mention Romney’s taxes to throw the election.
Wisconsin 2020:
Biden 1,630,866 49.45%
Trump 1,610,184 48.82%
Margin of difference: 0.63%
Definitely small enough margin that any one thing could have changed the outcome. Including the obviously bogus polling showing Biden defeating him 57-40% that the media went wild over with wall to wall coverage. Were most Trump voters demoralized by this? Hardly any. 99.37% may have been unaffected...but it only took a fraction of a percent to be demoralized to not turn out. Could 0.63% of Republican voters have gotten demoralized? Certainly - there were enough “soft” GOP types that may have just decided to sit it out thinking it was over that would have begrudgingly voted for Trump if they had actually voted, but just decided “I don’t really like the guy and he’s a sure loser so I won’t bother.” The poll worked well if it affected those types...and when you only needed 0.63%, might very well have done it. And certainly, 0.63% (and likely a few percentage points more) would have been affected by the Hunter Biden story if it had been reported.
But I reiterate...Trump’s campaign ceding the airwaves to Biden on all of the subchannels alone was also enough to make up the difference.
Note that in 2016, Trump got 47.22% of the vote and won the state. He ‘lost’ it in 2020, despite the fact he improved 1.6% of the popular vote to 48.82% - that’s actually quite a significant increase in support. The Biden campaign’s strategy of targeting the third party voters who didn’t like Hillary or Trump in 2016 paid off handsomely to make them comfortable with “good ol’ Joe”. You never, ever cede that significant amount of campaign ground to an opponent.
Bidens best performing voter group in the 2020 election was Dominion. The second largest group was Dropbox.
“The New York Times wrote, “The 4-to-3 ruling by the court’s conservative majority...”
Or as a non-communist might put it, “The ruling passed 4-to-3, despite opposition from partisan Democrats on the court...”
Only if you mean punishing those responsible and correcting the whole election system. Otherwise get ready for permanent tyrannical rulers.
“illegal and harmed”
Sounds like Wisconsin voters can sue for damages now.
Good points.
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