So was the 2020 e******n really fair or not?
To understand the issue of fairness, let’s compare e******n results to the score in an NBA basketball game. Assume that the Celtics scored more points than the Knicks in a game played last night. Scoring more points than your opponent normally means that you win the game and that any recount of points scored would confirm that result.
E******n results are similar to basketball scores. The candidate with the most v**es—the highest score—is normally declared the winner. Now the loser might challenge the result by asking for a recount of v**es
but should that recount produce very similar results, the candidate with the most v**es would still win.
But let’s assume that an analysis of the game confirms that the referees allowed the Celtics to double-dribble (a standard rule infraction) while the Knicks were not allowed. And let’s assume that the analysis shows that the referees allowed the Celtics to continue to use players with more than 5 fouls; the Knicks were not allowed to do that. Finally, let’s assume that the analysis showed that each Celtic free throw counted for 2 points while each Knicks free throw counted for the usual single point. Now, would we still have confidence that the game was fair and that the Celtics—who scored the most points–were really the legitimate winner?
You get the picture. Every competitive contest has rules that must be followed by both teams if any competitive process is to produce a legitimate result. And in an e******n, the process cannot produce a fair result if the participants don’t follow the rules or if the courts refuse to allow an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the rules were really followed or not. (The fairness of the rules\ themselves is a separate issue). To be sure, counting and recounting v**es accurately is an important procedural rule; but it is only ONE procedural rule and not necessarily the most important in terms of producing a legitimate outcome.
THE GEORGIA 2020 E******N
To see why this is so, let’s take the controversy over the results in the 2020 e******n in Georgia.
We know the final score of that e******n. After counting and recounting v**es cast, Joe Biden scored 6,580 more v**es than Donald Trump and was declared the winner. But were all of the procedural rules followed so that the e******n was fair?
One way to tell would be to do a database analysis searching for “anomalies”, i.e., for procedural rule irregularities as to how v**es were cast and counted. The methodology is fairly straightforward: cross-compare databases for registered v**ers and v**es cast in Georgia (2020) with other certified Georgia databases such as death certificates for registered v**ers; addresses and locations of registered v**er; v**ers who moved out of state prior to the e******n; and the number of v**er I.D.’s per registered v**ers. If significant “irregularities” appear with any of these comparisons, there could be a problem with the e******n process.
As an example, a common procedural rule for v****g in state e******ns is that dead v**ers and v**ers that have moved out of state can’t legally v**e. (Sounds fair!) Most states are supposed to scrub deceased v**ers and out-of-state v**ers from their v****g roles prior to an e******n or, failing that, to disallow v**es that can be traced back to such v**ers. But did Georgia do that in the 2020 e******n? It is unclear that they did. This means that some v**es may have been counted from registered v**ers who had died or moved out of state prior to the e******n.
State law in Georgia requires that all registered v**ers must have a legitimate residential in-state address. A federal post office location or a commercial warehouse cannot normally be considered a legitimate residential address. Yet hundreds of v**es in the 2020 e******n seem to have originated from federal post office locations, commercial warehouses, and several other non-residential locations, an almost certain violation of the procedural rules.
Finally, v**ers with multiple I.D. photos or numbers are an obvious red f**g for v****g irregularities. After all, more than one identification card or number could t***slate into more than one v**e per registered v**er, an obvious violation of the procedural rules. Yet a computer cross-check of v****g roles and I.D. numbers in Georgia discovered hundreds of individual registered v**ers with MORE than one identification number at multiple addresses (i.e., college students, etc.) and some v**ers with as many as five.
An analysis of these specific anomalies (and many more) has been done recently by a private firm called Omega 4 America. See here.
Omega 4, or Fractal, had previously assisted state governments in uncovering fraud in their medical and health care databases by employing the same methodology, i.e., comparing legally eligible recipients for state programs with actual funds received. Similarly, in this particular case involving the fairness of the 2020 Georgia e******n, Omega’s “fractal” analysis concluded that there may have been more than 12,000 separate procedural rule violations; actually the number was probably far higher. And since the e******n was officially decided by just 6,570 v**es, Omega then concluded that there was really no way to determine who legitimately won that e******n. After all, the “irregular” v**es could have all gone to Joe Biden, or they could have all gone to Donald Trump, or they could have gone to either candidate in some unknowable percentage. So, fair and square, who really won? Who knows.
CONCLUSION
If e******n fairness means following procedural rules, then by facts and logic alone the 2020 e******n process was unfair, despite the much ballyhooed sideshow of counting and recounting of v**es. Given the scope of the identified irregularities, Joe Biden may have won the e******n with more v**es than the official tally, or by fewer v**es than the official tally, or may have even lost the e******n entirely to Donald Trump; absent any additional analysis, there is just no way to tell. It will be interesting to see how the mainstream media—so allegedly concerned with fairness issues–intends to spin this one.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/04/dom-armentano/dead-people-v**ed-in-georgia/
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