The extent to which corporate media rigs elections for Democrats has been rigorously documented since at least Tim Groseclose's 2012 book, "Left Turn." In that book, the political scientist concluded through data-driven analysis that media bias on average shifts the electorate 20 points to the left on a 100-point political worldview scale.
My colleague, Mollie Hemingway, just put out a new, bestselling book that also documents things like big tech hiding election-shifting news from voters and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg embedding Democrat get-out-the-vote operations inside local election offices - which are supposed to be nonpartisan! What's more, all these cheats affixed into our nation's election machinery haven't been scrubbed away, not by a long shot.
It is: "Shockingly, the 2020 contest was the first presidential election since Reagan's first successful run in 1980 in which the Republican National Committee could play any role whatsoever in Election Day operations." What? Next sentence: "For nearly 40 years, the Democratic National Committee had a massive systemic advantage over its Republican counterpart: the Republican National Committee had been prohibited by law from helping out with poll watcher efforts or nearly any litigation related to how voting is being conducted." This section in chapter 1 goes on to explain how such an insane thing could be real.
That's a pretty big handicap walking into the election chaos of 2020, in which Americans filled out an unprecedented 65 million mail-in ballots, which are known not only for their margin of error, but also for being structurally biased towards Democrats.
Lazy Voting Biases Elections Towards Democrats Also made clear throughout "Rigged" is that lazier and sloppier elections strongly advantage Democrats.
Facebook Bought Joe Biden the Election In 2020, Facebook's interference in the election was a one-two punch.
To list just a few things the book shows Zuck Bucks facilitated: literally designing mail-in ballots and their envelopes; sending partisan activists to "Help" local elections offices in conveniently located swing districts; "Fix" unclear or illegal mail-in ballots; designing absentee balloting instructions; and collecting absentee ballots.
Mollie gives so many facts about the partisan tilt and effectiveness of Zuckerberg's grants to local elections offices that it truly leads one to conclude Zuckerberg flat-out bought the election for Joe Biden.
Mail-In Balloting Is More Outrageous Than Anyone Can Imagine "Up to a quarter of a million votes were cast in Wisconsin's presidential election without any identification check at all," Mollie writes on page 66.
How many points will they have to beat Democrats by to prove it? How many dubious ballots will be produced or negotiated away by partisan election workers or judges? How many urban areas run by Democrats will produce suspicious numbers of ballots that outweigh the votes in the rest of their states? How many Republican voters will stay home because they can't trust elections run by some of the loosest rules in the developed world? We shouldn't even have to be asking these questions right now.
If Republicans genuinely want to win elections - and that is sadly in doubt - they have no choice but to use whatever power they have to make those elections trustworthy again.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
7 Insane Things I Just Learned About How U.S. Elections Are ‘Rigged’
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