October 18, 2024
Election Day 2024 is on Tuesday, November 5, when many United States citizens who haven’t yet voted will go to their respective polling places and cast their votes for their candidate of choice. It remains to be seen what will happen at the day’s end when all the votes should be tallied. It seems in the last several elections that certain state election results have been delayed, with Florida being an exception. Florida seems to be the only state that has it together. Thank Governor Ron DeSantis for his leadership where this is concerned. But in many other states, especially swing states, for some reason vote totals just don’t seem be rendered in a timely manner.
One would think it would be pretty simple; votes are cast, officials keep a running tally and at the end of the day the totals are known and the winners announced. One would think. But that’s not how it is in every state. It’s a strange phenomenon that we as Americans can send rockets into space, land men and women on the moon and return them safely back to earth but somehow we cannot figure out the results of elections, a relatively simple task, on the same day that votes are cast.
Some states allow voting by mail prior to election day. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, to the chagrin of Republicans, votes were accepted by placing them in designated ballot drop boxes. In another sneaky scheme, ballot harvesting, the practice of one person collecting multiple ballots from other voters and turning them in to election centers where they can then be tallied, became an acceptable form of voting.
The problem with these new unconventional methods of voting is that they open the floodgates to potential fraud in an election, as was most likely the case in 2020. With ballot drop boxes, many of which are unmanned, they can be broken into and ballots can be stolen. This is a huge problem. People in general can’t be trusted to leave drop boxes alone when so much is on the line politically. Ballot harvesting, on the other hand, is an even easier way for vote thieves to steal and cheat.
There are other ways that voter fraud is committed. Unmaintained voter rolls sometimes still contain the names of people who are deceased. Their ballots somehow get into the hands of fraudsters who then cast votes with the illegitimate ballot. Sometimes non-citizens and illegal aliens find ways to register themselves to vote in states that have very lax election laws and whose officials are more than happy to just look the other way. This is an obvious travesty and patently unfair to all those who are here legally and follow the law.
Many contend that all the above actions occurred in the presidential election of 2020. From one state to another there were reports of strange things happening at the polls and elsewhere. Here are just a few:
- In both Philadelphia and Detroit, Republican observers were removed from, and not allowed to enter, certain Democratic-controlled voting centers
- Nine observers in Georgia testified that they saw countless irregular ballots without creases or typical markings, which indicated that those ballots did not arrive in envelopes as required
- A poll watcher in Fulton County, Georgia estimated that about 98 percent of the large number of unusually pristine ballots that she saw were for Joe Biden
- Thousands of uncounted ballots were found in Floyd, Fayetteville and Walton counties weeks after the election and were mostly from Trump voters
- In Arizona, in-person voters whose ballots produced error messages from tabulation machines were told to press a button that resulted in their votes not being counted
- In Pennsylvania just weeks before the election, the Secretary of State and the state Supreme Court allowed for signature matching to not matter in order to make it easier for Democrats to cheat so they can steal the election, which is against state law
There are so many more instances of fraud witnessed in the 2020 election. What is so perplexing is that when the Trump team presented or tried to present facts to the court, they were rejected and/or outright dismissed. It was like it was too much of a bother for state and federal officials to dutifully investigate witness accounts of election fraud. Trump supporters were understandably appalled, wondering why those in high positions do not take this seriously. It smacked of a devious desire to push President Trump out of office when it appeared he had comfortably won the election.
Which is why this election cycle the newly structured Republican National Committee has spent a lot of time and money making sure that Republican voters play by the same rules that Democrats played by in 2020, in order to make this election “Too Big to Rig.”
Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.