Opinion: The Results Are In—Nobody Trusts the Results

(https://docs.house.gov/meetings/HA/HA08/20220622/114910/HHRG-117-HA08-Wstate-RothschildM-20220622.pdf)

According to a Public Affairs Pulse Survey, just 37% of Americans believe the 2024 elections will be both honest and open to rightful voters, while 43% have serious doubts about either honesty, openness, or both.

Democrats are more confident in the integrity of the election process, with 50% saying they believe the elections will be honest and open; just 35% of Republicans and 24% of independents agree. This is a reversal from 2020 when Democrats had much greater concerns about election integrity.

“The presidential election of 2000 stands at best as a paradox, at worst as a scandal, of American democracy. Democrat Albert Gore won the most votes, a half million more than his Republican opponent George W. Bush, but lost the presidency in the electoral college by a count of 271-267. Even this count was suspect, dependent on the tally in Florida, where many minority voters were denied the vote, ballots were confusing, and recounts were mishandled and manipulated. The choice of their leader came not from the citizens of the nation, but from lawyers battling for five weeks. The final decision was made not by 105 million voters, but by a 5-4 majority of the unelected U.S. Supreme Court, issuing a tainted and partisan verdict.”

— Gerald M. Pomper, Political Science Quarterly, Summer 2001

As far back as 2000, a large percentage of Americans—arguably even the majority—were questioning not only the accuracy of our elections but the American election process itself. Without the aid of Facebook to pour gasoline on their disbelief and anger, Democrat election result deniers were unable to gain any real traction.

To Al “I took the initiative in creating the Internet” Gore’s credit, he didn’t encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.

Fast forward to the first Trump vs. Biden conflict. January 6, 2021, has been classified as either a coup, a riot, an insurrection, or a righteous protest. Whatever it was or wasn’t, for good or for bad, it’s clear the FBI was involved. Four years later, and the FBI is getting its head chopped off for taking a swipe at the reinstated king. Both Democrats and Republicans are now taking turns being gravely concerned that the FBI is being politically weaponized.

Now that Trump has won a second time, it’s angry Democrats (notably without the aid of Kamala Harris or Joe Biden) claiming that “20 million Democrat votes are missing.”

The criminal cases of Zul Mirza Mohamed (Texas) and Shak Khan (California) prove that it is possible for political candidates to tamper with elections via mail-in ballots, at least on some level. Their cases expose weaknesses in our system that can be exploited by anyone with an address and bad intentions.

Regardless of election outcomes, both outrageous conspiracies and legitimate questions about the integrity of our elections will persist from all sides of the political spectrum until more is done to ensure the very foundation of our nation does not falter.

Ensuring free and fair elections that are trusted by the masses is at the very core of our democratic republic. Without widespread trust in our elections—something we currently lack—the United States of America will lose the one thing that makes it truly exceptional: a superpower that has a smooth transition of power.

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