President Donald Trump continues to claim that the election is “far from over,” and on Saturday vowed multiple lawsuits to contest the results announced so far. And while the media has anointed former vice president Joe Biden the “president-elect,” just saying so doesn’t make it so.
Regardless of what you think of either of the candidates, Trump is right: The election is not over until either he concedes, or until the states certify the election results. Certification deadlines are set by statute and vary from state to state, but must take place before the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14.
In the meantime, there are multiple indicators and warnings of significant and potentially result-changing election fraud that the president’s team will be investigating in the coming days, including denial by election authorities in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and elsewhere to allow “meaningful” participation by Trump campaign poll-watchers, and unusual midnight surges in Biden votes in multiple states where election officials said they had sent their staff home for the night.
The most pressing of these anomalies is the computer “glitch” announced by the Antrim County, Michigan, clerk of the court on Friday that caused a 6,000 vote surge for Biden in a county that Trump won handily in 2016.
Once the “glitch” was corrected, those votes were credited to Trump.
As Spaulding County elections supervisor Marcia Ridley rightly said, this is something that’s not done. It’s not normal. And maybe it wasn’t an accident.
I put “counted” in quotes deliberately, since hand-recounts could well determine that these votes were in fact mis-counted.
While my book is a fiction and was published three months before the election, it’s not a fantasy. It’s based on extensive investigation of the flaws of our electronic voting systems that I’ve been studying for several years, comparing notes with cyber-security experts in the private sector and in government.
In my book, I also predicted that the national media would project fake vote counts to create a perception that Trump had lost the election, in order to discourage Trump voters and the Republican officials from pursuing claims of election fraud.
It became obvious to me in my research that the only way for Democrats to confidently predict victory over such an immensely popular president as Donald Trump, whose last-minute rallies drew crowds in the tens of thousands compared to the dozens who came out in their cars to honk at candidate Biden, was to fake the polls and hack the election software.
In Arizona, for example, she said that Biden had banked 53 percent of the mail-in and early-votes, so that Trump “would need to get 60 percent of the remaining votes to win.”
Similarly, in Pennsylvania, she estimated that the Biden team had won 67 percent of the 2.6 million early and mail-in ballots. To overcome that advantage, Team Trump needed 59 percent on election day.
The actual results showed that Trump won 66 percent of the election day vote (not including third parties) and still lost, because Biden had won 76.95 percent of the early and mail-in vote.
I would be absolutely shocked if the Biden team had missed so many early and mail-in votes in their pre-election projections. So what happened? So far, we don’t know.
That’s what’s about to happen in Georgia and Wisconsin, and should be happening in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. Let the recounts begin.
