2020

 

There has been much ado about the conduct of the 2020 Presidential election, particularly in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. After the results indicated that Joe Biden won enough states to thwart President Trump’s reelection bid, allegations of fraud and voting irregularities led to numerous lawsuits challenging the election results in those states. Most of those lawsuits were dismissed due to a lack of proper standing, or the “laches” rule, meaning that the lawsuit was not presented in a timely fashion. Even the Supreme Court refused to hear any of those cases. Roughly half of the country believes that this election was flawed and the results from the battleground states were illegally obtained due to rampant fraud, compromised voting machines and voting software. Those states Election Commissions and Secretaries of State compounded the problem by preventing or obstructing access to President Trump’s legal team. The calls by the democrat party and mainstream media to simply accept the results has, in effect, caused even more distrust by the electorate. Now there will be a number of legislators challenging the results from those states on January 6^th.

The mainstream media calls out Republicans that have indicated that they will challenge the electors from those battleground states, accusing them of being undemocratic and treasonous. It is true that the states are in charge of their elections and that Congress should abide by the will of the people. Congress should never overturn the results of a legally conducted election. But what if the election was plagued with fraud? What if there was ballot stuffing and illegal votes cast? What if ballots were illegally discarded? What if the voting machines were able to be and were compromised? What then is the remedy if the courts refuse to consider evidence and the states certify an illegally conducted election? Senator Cruz has suggested a commission to review those states’ elections. Five Senators, five members of the House and five Supreme Court Justices would conduct ten days of hearing and actually consider the evidence that has not had the opportunity to be adjudicated in a court of law. There is precedence for an appointed commission to consider accusations of fraud in a Presidential election.

All Americans need to have the full faith and confidence in lawfully conducted elections. Without that faith and confidence, our Constitutional Republic would be damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Airing the grievances before this commission would restore integrity in our election system by either validating the complaints or confirming the legitimacy of the incoming administration. The last thing this country needs is another four years of one party calling the duly elected President illegitimate. We must accept whoever is legally elected in order for his administration to be effective. Information and facts are what we, as a people, base our conclusions upon. Present those facts to the American people so that they will be satisfied with the outcome. Do not accept the premise of ignoring millions of our citizens by telling them to accept the results and to simply move on. Make the case and the American people will accept whatever outcome is affirmed.

Will Democracy die in Darkness

All good things must come to an end. In human history, empires rose and empires fell. The Roman Empire fell, not because of marauding armies, but it destroyed itself from within. Its’ many excesses caused it to weaken, until it could no longer maintain its’ borders and defend itself from its’ many enemies. Today, we find ourselves in a similar situation as the Roman Empire. We are not at war with a foreign enemy, our enemy is within. Today, our excesses have caused the fabric of our society to begin to erode and tear. Today, there are those who take advantage of our constitutionally guaranteed rights to divide society and demonize those in which they disagree. And now, an election rife for fraud, when one party takes advantage of a pandemic to unleash millions of ballots without the safeguards necessary to guarantee that all votes cast are legitimate. Half of the country has lost faith in the validity of this election. In order to maintain a Constitutional Republic, it is imperative that the citizenry have faith in open and honest elections.

In the preliminary vote totals, Joe Biden has been declared the victor by the media and the democrat party. President Trump has been “taken to the woodshed” and is lambasted for not conceding the election and preventing a peaceful transition of power to occur. Our Constitution guarantees certain rights for the candidates and President Trump is well within his rights to demand that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote discarded. Whether or not there still remains a path to victory is not necessary. The citizenry has the right to understand and trust that our system of elections remains valid, fair and accurate. President Trump is criticized for causing mistrust of our election system by calling out numerous circumstantial instances that would lead a reasonable person to believe that a fair election did not occur. He is doing nothing of the sort, but the mainstream media is actually breeding mistrust with their hyperbolic accusations and insistence that there is nothing to see here. Our failure to address systemic fraud in our voting in cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and Milwaukee, all democrat strongholds, has caused voting fraud to fester and grow unencumbered. A fair and balanced audit of all ballots cast at the polling sites in these cities is essential to determine that the vote was legitimate and accurate to satisfy the nation’s uncertainty and to also add credibility to the winner.

In 2000, the nation waited for Florida to count dimpled and pregnant chads on ballots before the US Supreme Court put an end to the count and determined that the winner of the election was George W. Bush. We fail to remember that the democrat appointed head of the GSA, David Barram, refused to release transition funding until after the Supreme Court finally ruled on the Florida election, over 4 weeks after election day. "Until the results are clear, and as long as both sides are going to court, the results are not clear yet," GSA spokeswoman Beth Newberger had insisted. No one questioned the motives at that time. No media outlet cried that a partisan coup was conspiring to obstruct an incoming administration. No one accused either candidate’s litigation as unfounded conspiracy theories. Our Constitution provides a way to remedy contested elections. It’s time to let cooler heads prevail and let the courts shine the light of truth and determine how this should end. Evil revels in darkness, we can wait for the truth to come out into the light. All citizens of the United States deserve no less.