No 2020 Voter Fraud – Are We Sure?

Can we set aside politics for a minute and discuss the last election? Not about who won the presidency but about the election process itself. It was a convoluted mess.

First, let’s not simply swallow the idea that the 2020 election “was the most secure in U.S. history.”

That was the conclusion of government and industry officials who are in charge of election security. What do you expect they would say – that they fell down on the job? Highly doubtful. And, their grandiose declaration came just nine days after election day.  Much suspicious information has surfaced since then. 

Private citizens presented hundreds of sworn affidavits alleging all sorts of suspicions about fraudulent vote counting, backdating and transporting of ballots and voting machine irregularities in several states. These statements were offered by citizens who swore under penalty of perjury and could be jailed if found to be lying. 

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany appearing on Fox News/Hannity program displaying what she said were more than 230 citizen-eyewitness complaints of voter fraud.
Republicans Offer 230+ Affidavits Claiming Vote Fraud – screengrab

It would be easy to swat away all these complaints by saying they came from supporters of the Republican Party, but that’s too easy. It also leaves us with the conclusion that everyone – from poll watchers to postal workers — is lying as part of a big conspiracy. The problem with complex conspiracies is that they ultimately fall apart because someone steps up and tells the truth.

After all the complaints we’ve heard about the 2020 election wouldn’t you like to know the facts? Shouldn’t citizen claims of fraud against our most sacred system of democracy be taken seriously and be fully investigated? If they are found to be false then the liars can be prosecuted, and the truth about the election will be on the record.     


Allegations That Mail In Ballots Were Mishandled (Flickr / G. Witteveen)

Almost as disturbing as all these accusations of wrongdoing is the mainstream media’s automatic scorn for the idea that voter fraud could happen. They might as well run headlines that say, “Shut up. Go Away. The Election was Perfect.” We have known as far back as the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon contest that election outcomes can be fraudulently manipulated. 

 Why does big media jump on all manner of political gossip and accusations but not this? When the outcome of our most important civic duty is in question much of the media is content to take the lazy way out and proclaim, “There’s nothing to see here. Go back to your homes.”

Shouldn’t we care that some states may have illegally changed the rules on mail-in and absentee ballots under the guise of pandemic protection? Critics passionately believe some of those changes invited fraud and violated state constitutions.   

Shouldn’t the nine states that sent out massive numbers of ballots to everyone on their voter registration rolls reconsider that procedure? No consideration was given to whether those voters may have died, moved away or been convicted of a crime and therefore ineligible to vote. All those unclaimed ballots floating in the ether were easy prey for the unscrupulous bent on tipping the outcome. 

photo:  - Wikimedia commons
Nine States Mailed Out Massive Numbers of Unrequested Ballots

A flurry of state and federal lawsuits have been filed citing these various allegations. As I write this some are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Many of the suits have already been dismissed but that doesn’t mean the remaining suits lack merit. Attention should be paid until all disputes work their way through the legal system. 

If a state’s constitution or the U.S. Constitution is believed to have been violated isn’t it logical to challenge that? If not now, when exactly do we start to question the status quo and investigate whether our voting systems are truly secure? When do states begin to seriously cull out-of-date voter rolls to ensure votes are not cast in the name of non-residents or the dead?

Many will pooh-pooh this saying there are just not that many illegally cast votes and surely not enough to change the outcome of the election.  While that is very likely true in the 2020 race that is beside the point here.

Our election process should be above reproach.  Any election system that includes more than 160 million participants is going to have security problems. We need to acknowledge that. Every citizen who wants free and fair elections should be alarmed at the discombobulated state of our current process. Everyone should want to improve it before the next election.                                                           

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37 Comments

  1. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    reganr@att.net writes:

    Hear hear.

    Thank you for your comments about allegations of voter fraud. I am alarmed that the claims from eye-witnesses are being ignored, and we’re being told to calm down because the results won’t change anyway.

    Everyone gets disenfranchised when cheaters get to turn the U.S. of A. into a “third-world” environment.

    • Paul Trybus on December 19, 2020 at 9:37 pm

      Is you don’t believe Bill Barr, who spent his entire tenure supporting his boss, who are you going to believe? Let me suggest you join the flat earth society!!

  2. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:25 pm

    rroseroo writes:

    Thank you for that article. You’re about the only one other than Newsmax and Epoch times writing anything. It was well-written and objective and trying to make the point that no one wants to listen to.

    Yes that word ‘fairness’ doesn’t seem to come into play anymore. And without saying we can all assume the reasons.

    I pulled this from the web and I’m from Connecticut.

    You just keep writing; you keep it up because people are reading you and hearing you.

    Rose DeFrancesco
    Connecticut

  3. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:26 pm

    Shari Reed writes:

    You definitely wadded into the sludge by suggesting that everyone should know every complaint about this election process and have the complaints investigated before saying the election was clean. Have you ever worked at the polls during an election? If not, you simply can’t understand the process. As a family member said about the recent election—It was run like a military campaign. The procedures are in place and led by a county clerk who has one thing as a goal—honest, fair elections.
    Local government affairs are always contentious. If you attend a city council meeting during the public comment session you will hear complaints about everything the city does. If every one of these complaints were thoroughly investigated each city government would have time for little else. The same is true for election procedures.
    No, you don’t want to know every complaint about whose neighbor saw what. And there has to be time limits. No yelling about supposed inaccuracies for months. There are systems in place to combat fraud and they work.
    Having a secure election system is the most important part of a democratic process.
    And giving credence to silly theories about conspiracies is simply anti democratic.
    You wouldn’t have written this column if Trump hadn’t been using fear to undermine stability in all our institutions. A responsible person would never give any credence to lack of trust in our system.

    Shari Reed, New Mexico

  4. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:28 pm

    Evelyn Rosenberg wrote:

    You are an idiot.

    • Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:28 pm

      DD replies to Evelyn:

      Typical response from someone who wants everyone else to think like they do. Lock-step thinking is not in my wheelhouse.

      Let me guess. You didn’t like my last column suggesting that our election process could use some fine tuning before the next election.

      Probably a more intelligent way to express your displeasure.

    • Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:30 pm

      Evelyn replies to DD:

      I apologize. I have never sent a note like this to anyone before.

      I just am so disgusted by the attempt of the Republicans to have a real coup and overturn basically our government and country for the sake of a narcissistic insane man.

      I feel this is not the time to be questioning the election but we can soberly discuss reforms once Trump is gone. I would say that the voter suppression and gerrymandering tends to be more on the side of the Republicans, but this is not the time to inflame an already crazy rightwing fantasy.

      • Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:34 pm

        DD replies to Evelyn:

        Your use of the word “coup” is worrisome to me. This not a coup. It is a constitutionally protected legal process that is working its way through the courts. And, may I quickly add – it has, so far, proven unsuccessful at every juncture. This process was designed to avoid a coup.

        Take heart. The republic is safe.

  5. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    Ben Blackwell writes:

    When your column first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal, I enjoyed reading it. However, as of late, you just raise my blood pressure.

    The only common sense statement in the above column was the first sentence of the last paragraph: “Our election process should be above reproach.” I agree with that statement but you appear to be using a much more stringent metric for “reproach” than is practical. There are always going to be some screwups, some intentional and some unintentional. So how many more nines after 99.99% reliable do you need? 99.999 or 99.999…999.

    Where are all these “hundreds of sworn affidavits” that you say are out there? Perhaps you need to share them with POTUS + Rudy because their batting average in the legal challenges arena is pretty dismal. To continue this “stop the steal” campaign is just further driving a wedge in US society and you are contributing to it. Even AG Barr, the great Trump loyalist, says the elections were ok (not perfect).

    Put up your evidence or shut up.

    Ben Blackwell

    Corrales, NM

  6. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    David Naquin writes:

    People like you are the real problem. There never was any reason to doubt the 2020 election and columns like yours do nothing but spread division and discord. Sure, you are a columnist and want attention and controversy to feed your ego and readership numbers. But just like Trump you do so in a destructive manner. Our failed pandemic response has made life difficult enough in NM and around the nation; we don’t need more stupidity feeding the hate.

    You try to hide your nonsense behind “Oh we need to know our elections are secure” veil of seeming correctness when all you are doing is brown nosing the soon to be gone president. Need a tissue?

  7. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:40 pm

    ROBERT JOHNSON writes:

    Diane,

    I would respectfully posit that the elections of 2020 support a “point” much different than yours. In, what might be the most disruptive /disrupted national election year in at least a century, our system stood strong and produced Judicially verified results at every level. With 50 states there are 50 systems created by and unique to each state none of which were considered to be invalid.

    Respectfully
    Robert A. Johnson
    Albuquerque., NM

  8. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:49 pm

    NavyVet writes:

    “Everyone should want to improve it before the next election.

    If this coup is allowed to stand, there will be no more elections, only democrats affirming that democrats are above the law, decide what the law is, decides who has standing (none of us).

    If allowed to stand, the democrats can pass anything and anyone they want, by simply setting the dial on the “voting machines” to “democrat wins” and guess what? The democrat always wins.

    • Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:50 pm

      DD replies to NavyVet:

      Please see the above comment about this NOT being a coup. ~DD

  9. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:51 pm

    jnissley writes:

    They are not facts. The fact is we had an election. The fact is that all states run their own elections. The fact is that President Trump said vote by mail was fraudulent even though he often votes by mail and he said this even before the election. The fact is we are in a global pandemic and states made some changes to help more people vote and there was little or no objection at the state level when the changes were made. The fact is some states have moved to all vote by mail even before this election. The fact is that the house of representatives tried to pass some election reform but Mitch McConnell did not even allow them to be voted on. The fact is the party that feels they have been wronged needs to prove in court that they were wronged. It is not the responsibility of the other party to prove there was not any fraud because that is the way the law works and nothing has been proven in court no matter how many facts you think there are. Words are easy outside of court but proof of those words is much more difficult in a court of law.

  10. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:51 pm

    Marylee Peirce writes:

    Again…mail in voting configured by sending ballots by the hundreds of thousands to those who did not request them is in no way comparable with absentee voting. Signature verification is set aside, along with any ability to confirm the legitimacy of the vote. Certainly a perfect format for systemic fraud. This is a fact, and the root of the corrupt totals being confirmed by corrupt Democratic states.

  11. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    Susan Bustinza writes:

    Just curious. Why would you want to vote by mail? Such a precious Right. Why trust the Post Office.

  12. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    MJ Ponsegrau writes:

    Years ago there were mandates that required voter organizations to clean house on their voter registration lists to prevent those who had died, those who had moved to other jurisdictions, etc., to be removed from those lists. Apparently that process was either ignored or never completed. Until it is, the integrity of every election will be in doubt.

    Okay, so where does this lead? We’re only now seeing the detrimental effect registered voter list can have on an election. I think it’s high time to purge ALL registered voter lists nationwide to clarify active voters from those no longer qualified to vote in respective jurisdictions.

  13. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:55 pm

    MJ Ponsegrau adds:

    In that nothing has been clarified or demonstrated in courts of law, this is a precise description of what has “allegedly” taken place. We here on the outside may be convinced wrongdoing took place, but until substantiated in courts of law, it all remains “hearsay”. And until our judiciary is willing to address these “allegations of wrongdoing”, it will all remain questionable.

  14. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 12:56 pm

    Dhw1963 writes:

    If there was no fraud, they should be wanting to hear what we have to say to dispute it and close us down. Instead court case after court case is rejected before any evidence is allowed. We have mountains of concrete evidence. There is a reason they have yet to let us show any of it in court. These cases are shut down before they are even started. They know there was fraud. They are trying to not let it be shown. They do not want Trump president. If it comes after January 20, it’s too late. Just like the Hunter Biden/ Joe Biden China connection. That is their goal.
    Well guess what? We are not going anywhere. The truth will prevail. GOD is on our side. Believe in miracles!!!
    TRUMP 2020

  15. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:11 pm

    jason heath shuford writes:

    This is not Biden verses Trump anymore! They can’t say no evidence! My god, there are videos, social media, text, sworn affidavits.. if that’s not proof, what is? I hope that many of you wind up needing a court to rule in your favor and they say sorry- we aren’t listening because lack of evidence. So you’re text, social media and and video won’t stand sorry and bye now!

  16. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:12 pm

    Tom writes:

    Only ONE party fully supports voter fraud and fights ANY attempt to institute voter ID laws. Only ONE.

  17. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:12 pm

    Miss Fatcat writes:

    A hand count of bad ballots will remain the same. If the ballots were illegal, they needed to be removed and THEN a hand count done.

  18. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:13 pm

    Ronald Sautter writes:

    With internal and federal investigations going on behind the scenes, squeelers are bound to come forward soon, naming higher level operatives and eventually organizers. The Biden house of cards will fall, even if Biden gets his electoral votes on Monday. Also, more on Biden crime conglomerate will be revealed very soon, by the end of the year, if not sooner.

    .

  19. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:13 pm

    Marylee Peirce writes:

    Not that many illegally cast votes to change the outcome of the election?
    Seriously? There is no doubt that hundreds of thousands of votes were either switched from Trump to Biden by computer manipulation, ballots added by the suitcase full for Biden in the wee hours, with no Republicans present to observe, dead people voting, ballots harvested fraudulently, votes tabulated multiple times for Biden from the same ballot, foreign nations printing and shipping pre-marked Biden ballots….all of which, when calculations are accurately made, give Donald Trump a legitimate landslide victory.

    • Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:13 pm

      DD replies to Marylee: Yes. I’ve heard all these allegations. However, none of them have been proven in a court of law.

  20. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:14 pm

    Stephen Tomassetti writes:

    At this point in time, with all the history logged on the behavior of the mainstream media, to refer to them as ‘lazy’ is just naive. MSM outlets are simply the propaganda engine for their corporate owners. Think of them more like the HR department of their prospective corporation. Anyone who has worked for a corporation knows what kind of ‘real’ information comes out of HR.
    Until a change in our laws for platforms and publishers, the MSM should effectively be ignored.

  21. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:14 pm

    KM Hall writes:

    If it is not completely overhauled there’s no point in voting again.

  22. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    Susan Bustinza writes:

    I’m in Michigan. We received three absentee voter applications for each of us. It felt like “they” were pushing it.
    Good thing we aren’t weak or we might have given it to the suggestion.
    I kept all six and shredded them after we voted. I didn’t trust them not to say that we had voted already by absentee ballot.

  23. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    mikehg_67 writes:

    I feel that what this article is getting at is this:
    Several of these states have illegally changed their voting rules which has left the whole process vulnerable to fraud. While some of the normal fraud would not sway the election one way or the other. “But”, with the relaxed rules it makes it almost impossible to detect how much fraud. Hand counting ballots could rule out machine errors but if those ballots are not verified against valid registered voters then recounts are useless. Watching the Wisconsin legislature hearing and one of the people in charge of WEC stated that they don’t have a problem with missing clerks initials because they preprint the initials. Other counties didn’t worry about if the initial was missing because they didn’t want to penalize the voter because the clerk forgot to initial. All these little things are there to help discourage fraud. If I’m mass producing a bunch of envelopes and ballots the time to duplicate initials or tell take that they were printed with a machine will help them to be spotted. If you’re ignoring them or preprinting them yourself then what?

  24. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    Annaklink writes:

    In the State of Pennsylvania, Judicial Watch has a lawsuit against Bucks, Chester, and Delaware Counties to clean up their voter rolls as required under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) That’s the law. It is well known that a lot of vote fraud comes out of these counties. In theses counties during the 2020 election Hundreds of thousands of mail-in -votes were NOT INSPECTED BY REPUBLICAN POLL WATCHERS. How can it be said that those uninspected votes would not “change the outcome of the election. The same thing happened in Michigan and Georgia. The Fraud is staring you in the face and you say it doesn’t matter? I find commentary like this incredulous. We are not brain dead. This election was rigged!

  25. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    Anais Nin writes:

    The problem is not to know if there was fraud . According to the many sworn statements there was fraud. We know there were switched votes from President Trump to Biden . They were actually confirmed by election officials but called a human error . The problem really is that all the courts seem to be bought and paid for by globalist including Scotus . This is our. Biggest problem . The evidence of fraud is evident but no court essentially wants to touch it .

  26. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    Steve Borsher writes:

    The election process is as above reproach as the people it elects.

  27. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    Winston Smith writes:

    Diane Diamond: you should be ashamed of yourself for being so ignorant and weak spirited.
    You apparently don’t understand what is taking place. Do your homework. Connect the dots. And stop reinforcing the propaganda by fostering doubt that is not warranted.
    And your concluding sentence, which has a conciliatory tone, is way off the mark:
    “Everyone should want to improve it before the next election.”
    If Harris and Biden are allowed to enter the WH there will never be an opportunity to “ make it right” in another election.
    This is a do or die situation.
    It’s not the time for compromise or reconciliation.
    We are at war with China, the Deep State, Dems and RINOs, Soros, Cultural Marxism, Stasi style big tech and main stream media propaganda, the political class, globalist elites, the UN, WHO, and that commie named Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum with their socialist plan to take control of the world under the rubric of the profoundly evil Great Reset.
    We are in the midst of World War III and most Americans— including you — are blissfully unaware of it.
    We absolutely cannot allow China Joe to be installed as the “President” of the United States. That would mean capitulating to all of our enemies in one fell swoop.
    It’s absolutely not an option.

  28. Diane Dimond on December 14, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    John Williams writes:

    Hello.

    Re: Your Dec. 12, 2020 voter fraud.

    No one is saying that there is not voter fraud. Every election has
    some voter fraud. Innocent mistakes are also made. Some major types of
    voter frauds are seldom identified or investigated. How about one
    spouse coercing the other to vote a certain way. Or an employer
    coercing his/her employees. Or a minister coercing church members.

    Or trickery to vote multiple times. About 20 years ago, one of our
    daughters was seriously dating a wealthy celebrity who was a past
    Olympic track star. I won’t mention his name, altho he is now deceased
    (he and his son died in a plane crash). This guy told me that in every
    election, he voted Republican “dozens of times”. I asked him how did
    he get away with it. He said that he had bought identities from dozens
    of homeless men who almost certainly would not vote, and he would
    register in counties where his rich friends or fans lived with their
    permissions using addresses they gave him and his bought IDs. He would
    vote in several New Mexico counties and in counties in battleground
    states. And he would let these friends and fans use his address and
    their fake IDs to vote in New Mexico elections. I considered reporting
    him, but then again no one would believe an ordinary guy against the
    word of a rich celebrity. I could not even get APD to investigate our
    stolen, stripped and “recovered” truck at the time.

    As a regular reader of your columns, it is clear that you tend to
    slant your columns, usually subtly, to favor President Trump and the
    GOP.

    I am a registered Republican. We have two daughters. I simply cannot
    understand how any woman could vote for or support a person who
    bragged about violently sexually assaulting women with impunity!
    Period. Then later laugh it off as “locker room talk”. Is money, white
    privilege, upper class privilege, fear of minorities, or anything else
    that important to you to overcome bragging about violently sexually
    assaulting women? Do your kids feel the same way?

    John Williams

    • John Bandit Unice on December 17, 2020 at 12:05 pm

      You submitted a well- documented article about the election.Will continue to read future articles!
      Readers who express different views should not offer negative personal attacks against others! It is offensive and displays weakness, close- mindset and Unwillingness for discussion!

    • Diane Dimond on December 21, 2020 at 10:04 am

      Diane replies to Mr. Williams:
      Actually, John, there are a lot of people who are saying THERE IS NO VOTER FRAUD. PERIOD. STOP SAYING ‘VOTER FRAUD’. ITS NON-EXISTANT!! And they are saying it in such loud (and sometimes ugly) terms that there is really no way to rationally discuss the subject with them.

      In a nation where nearly 67% of eligible voters voted — some 160 million people, early estimates say — there is no statistically sound way to assert that there was NO voting fraud – either by human mistake or intention. Couple that with the woman who said she checked the rolls in her state and her dead son was counted as having voted. Or the postal worker who swears to mishandling of ballots. Counties where there were more votes cast than registered voters. Untold numbers of mailed out ballots floating around. There are serious questions about voting machines and whether they might have been hooked up to the internet (inviting outside hacking) And the list goes on and on.

      The fallback position seems to be “well, there weren’t enough questionable votes to change the election.” I accept that – but the reality is there should be NO questionalbe/fraudlent ballots case. States need to clean up bloated voter rolls, political parties need to stop their shenanigans and most importantly, to my mind, the whole mess needs to be investigated and indictments/prosecutions need to be carried out where illegalities have occured.

  29. Leeza on January 16, 2021 at 8:28 am

    To those who don’t believe there was voter fraud, I ask 2 questions. Have you ever received a neighbor’s mail or package at YOUR address? Have you ever received mail for previous tenants? Has a deceased family member continued to receive mail? Have you ever mailed something that never arrived? Have you ever ordered an item (tv, internet, etc.) and it never arrived? Answered yes to any of the above? Then you know voter fraud exists. Mail, in general, is a service fraught with vulnerability. If we do not fix this, then we are no better than a banana republic.

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