Election fraud has rightfully returned to the forefront of American politics. This long-overdue reckoning comes after years of deteriorating trust in the U.S. election system, beginning with the 2000 election and culminating in the 2020 election that saw the systematic blocking of election fraud lawsuits, the silencing of dissenters through deplatforming and lawfare, and Americans with legitimate concerns being dismissed as crazy conspiracy theorists. But with President Trump back in the Oval Office—not because election fraud is a thing of the past, but because his massive support overcame the still-present methods of it—it is truly now or never to hold election fraudsters accountable and restore trust and legitimacy to the system.
Due to the issue still receiving inadequate mainstream coverage, many Americans remain unaware of the steps the second Trump administration has taken to tackle this critical problem. Earlier this month, the Arizona State Senate complied with an FBI subpoena for records from the 2021 Maricopa County audit that discovered a number of questionable votes that exceeded Biden’s alleged margin of victory by more than five and a half times. Those records included forensic images of the county’s election system and tabulators, ballot images from over two million ballots, voter rolls, tabulation logs, and more. In January, the FBI raided the infamous Fulton County Election Center in Georgia, seizing all physical ballots from the 2020 election along with images, tabulators, and voter rolls — similar to those handed over by Maricopa County in Arizona.
These attempts to uncover the truth about the 2020 election are happening alongside President Trump’s attempts to safeguard future elections by emphatically attempting to drag Republican senators across the Save America Act finish line. If enacted, it would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, mandate photo ID to vote on election day, require states to accurately update voter rolls to remove non-citizens, deceased individuals, and those who have moved, and also impose criminal penalties for election officials who unlawfully register ineligible voters.
Coincidentally, the Supreme Court also just heard oral arguments in Watson v. the Republican National Committee, which addresses whether states can count mail-in or absentee ballots received after Election Day. The court appears poised to rule that such ballots – whose volume would shrink significantly under the Save America Act – must be received by election day to be counted.
Mainstream media continues to parrot the lie that “all of Trump’s election fraud claims were debunked” and dismisses fraud concerns as baseless conspiracy theories peddled by sore-loser Trump and “fringe” MAGA supporters who refuse to accept defeat (a narrative that also erroneously implies that Trump risked his freedom and even his life for a known lie). However, the number of Americans who believe these claims is steadily decreasing, meaning this decline is occurring in spite of the fact that virtually all examples of fraud were blocked from being broadcasted or presented in court. While this is an undeniably positive development, many Americans remain unaware of the specific methods that enable the fraud — many of which are still in use today.
Mail-in Ballots
Mail-in ballot fraud has the widest reach of all election vulnerabilities, and the problems begin long before any ballots are even counted. Inaccurate and outdated voter rolls generate floods of unsolicited ballots, while unverifiable chains of custody—exacerbated by ballot harvesting—create widespread chaos.
In many cases, people who vote in person also receive a ballot in the mail. A Michigan investigation, for example, found that an estimated 800,000 ballot applications were sent to non-qualified voters. This opens the door to duplicate votes through intentional double voting or third parties filling out ballots on someone else’s behalf. In multi-person households, one resident can easily retrieve and complete ballots addressed to other residents at the same address with no traceability. Mass mail-in voting has also paved the way for ballot harvesting operations, in which designated ballot collectors gather completed ballots and deposit them into drop boxes. It goes without saying how insecure this is, as whoever holds the ballots can alter or discard them at will.
These vulnerabilities are not disputed — they have been openly admitted. Multiple studies revealed election-altering findings: 28% of respondents said they would engage in at least one kind of illegal voting practice if it were ‘the only way to stop” an opposing candidate from winning; 21% admitted to voting in a state other than their documented state of residence; another 21% said they filled out a ballot for their family member; and 17% acknowledged signing a ballot for someone other than themselves. While these polls were national in scope, detailed evidence of deliberate fraud has been uncovered in great detail in key swing states.
In Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court ruled that their absentee ballot drop boxes used for nearly 2 million votes in 2020 were cast illegally—a total that dwarfed the alleged 20,000-vote margin. The majority opinion even went as far as describing the outcome as “obtained by unlawful procedures.” Another exploitation scheme targeted nursing homes, where mail-in ballot rates hit an unprecedented 100% in many facilities. This prompted Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to conduct an investigation that uncovered a resident voter exploitation scheme in which mentally incapacitated residents, despite not possessing the cognitive ability to do so – were coerced into voting according to family members. The findings were so severe that Gableman recommended decertifying Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes. Even Wisconsin Assembly speaker Robin Vos, previously an election fraud denier and far from an ally of President Trump, ultimately admitted that “widespread fraud” had occurred.
In Georgia, state officials essentially admitted before the fraud was completed that no path to victory existed for Joe Biden. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told MSNBC that, due to his knowledge of voter registration records, and with Trump leading by over 105,000 votes and only 2% of the vote left to count, even if Biden received 100% of the remaining mail-in ballots, it wouldn’t be enough to overcome the lead. Poll workers even provided sworn affidavits alleging that certain batches of mail-in ballots arrived without any folds or creases, an impossibility for legitimately mailed ballots, and that some featured identical, perfectly filled out circles next to Biden’s name, suggesting they were marked by a machine rather than by hand. Despite this, Biden was awarded the states electoral votes anyway.
These are two of the most glaring examples of mail-in ballot manipulation, but far from the only ones that have allowed undeserving candidates to gain power.
Electronic Voting Machine Errors and Vulnerabilities
Before 2020, raising concerns about electronic voting machines was par for the course. In a country as large as the United States, where elections are not one uniform national contest but thousands of separate ones run by states, counties, and municipalities, vulnerabilities are inevitable. But once it became clear the Russia collusion hoax was just that, and not an instance of actual election interference to propel Trump to the presidency as was proclaimed, Democrats seemingly abandoned any interest in securing elections and instead focused their efforts on seizing total control of the election fraud narrative by claiming that questioning election results represents a threat to our democratic processes (perhaps in an attempt to discourage scrutiny of the fraud that would unfold in 2020).
Yet as recently as 2018, then-Senator Kamala Harris questioned a DHS Senior Cybersecurity Adviser about the need to update electronic voting systems as well as the presently known risks to them. Kamala claimed she had recently spearheaded a congressional demonstration in which a cyber team hacked into voting machines— ones still used in many states—in real time to expose their vulnerabilities. She later tweeted and wrote in a book that electronic voting was more susceptible to hacking than paper ballots.
Years earlier, following the 2004 election, a voting machine “glitch” in Ohio wrongfully awarded George W. Bush an additional 3,893 votes in a state that, if flipped, would have placed John Kerry in the White House. This, combined with other irregularities, including over 90,000 ballots lacking a presidential vote, prompted several Democratic senators to object to certifying the results.
In Antrim County, Michigan, in 2020, a software error initially tallied 7,769 votes for Biden and 4,509 for Trump. The corrected count showed to be 9,748 for Trump and 5,960 for Biden, a net swing of 7,048 votes in favor of Trump. While this “error” was identified before certification and adjusted in the state total, it remains unknown how many similar glitches impacted other parts of Michigan, where many counties used the same software.
Voting machines have also failed mechanically, disenfranchising voters. In the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race, equipment breakdowns in heavily Republican areas of Maricopa County left countless voters—predominantly Republicans—unable to cast ballots. Those waiting in line were told to go to other polling places, but time constraints resulted in many never voting. Notably, this election was administered by the Arizona Secretary of State, who did not recuse herself despite being the Democratic nominee who ultimately benefited from these equipment failures.
Post-election adjudication
Proper post-election audits should have caught and corrected these glaring discrepancies prior to certification. Instead, the post-election review process continuously proves to be inadequate at best or complicit in covering up the fraud at worst.
While the Antrim County error was fixed and properly reflected in the final tally, lawsuits seeking to audit other Michigan counties using the same faulty software as Antrim were denied. Post-election reviews elsewhere frequently lacked proper signature verification, yet mail-in ballot rejection rates plummeted in crucial swing states like Georgia, where just 0.36–0.4% of mail-in ballots were rejected in 2020 compared to 6.4% in 2016, indicating reduced scrutiny for mail-in ballots. In Fulton County, attorney Ann Brumbaugh recently admitted that the 2020 election was certified in violation of the rule of law in a manner impacting 315,000 votes, far more than 11,779-vote margin in the state.
Unchecked mail-in ballots with poor chain-of-custody controls have also produced vote totals exceeding the number of registered voters. In Pennsylvania in 2020, there were 202,377 more votes cast than registered voters. Given that only voters registered prior to an election are permitted to vote, and typical turnout ranges from 60-70% (with 100% being statistically improbable), these numbers should have triggered immediate red flags. In this case, an additional roughly 200,000 votes surpassed that already statistically improbable voter turnout number. The vote was inexcusably certified anyway despite a vote margin of 80,000 between Trump and Biden, two times LESS than the bare minimum possible number of excess voters.
Foreign interference
In addition to domestic vulnerabilities, foreign adversaries seek to exploit weaknesses in our election processes to aid their preferred candidate. Declassified documents from earlier this year revealed that China gained access to voter registration data in multiple states in an attempt to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election by flooding the U.S. with fake driver’s licenses to assist in fraudulent voter registrations. This was in addition to the COVID-19 virus that originated from China that was predominantly responsible for the expanded use of mail-in ballots that were greatly exploited.
Even though America’s political elite and three-letter-agencies have demonstrated a penchant for undermining U.S. elections (as seen in Crossfire Hurricane), China’s documented attempts to meddle prove that foreign interference remains a persistent threat.
Some will always lazily dismiss attempts to address the 2020 election and other past instances of election fraud by claiming it is “old news or irrelevant,” and that it is “time to move on.” But there are three key reasons why addressing 2020 still matters.
Firstly, it is a basic human desire to know the truth. We cannot undo the years under unelected governance, but the nation deserves clarity about what has occurred. Second, the fraud persists because almost nobody has been held accountable. Without tangible consequences, bad actors face little deterrent, which emboldens others to make more attempts in the future. Lastly, a nation must trust election results in order to move forward. For most of our history that was the case. But beginning in 2016, Democrats cried theft due to the failed coup that wrongly convinced many voters that President Trump was illegitimate. With the successful rigging in 2020, Trump supporters rightfully objected to the certified results. This means at one point or another over the past decade, essentially every segment of the electorate has not believed the results of a presidential election. Election rigging not only deprives Americans of the leadership they legitimately chose but also produces artificially close 50-50 results that fuel a false narrative of permanent national division. This destroys morale of a nation while shielding it from the truth, which is that a significant majority of Americans support President Trump’s common-sense, America First agenda.
Stealing any election is wrong—morally, politically, and ethically—regardless of which party benefits. But the matter is made exponentially worse when it predominantly benefits a party that not only allows, but supports and encourages the killing of innocent children in the womb, promotes gender mutilation surgeries for children who are likely suffering from a mental health crisis as opposed to the sinister narrative that God put them in the wrong body, and has labeled commonsense attempts to secure the border and mandate voter ID as hateful bigotry.
Election fraud has ripped the national at its seams on numerous occasions and has played an undeniable role in the rise of political violence that has unfolded the past decade. The current distrust, vulnerabilities, and outright attacks on our electoral process is unsustainable if America is to survive as it has for the past 250 years. If President Trump can deliver on this, it may just be the greatest piece of his incredible legacy.
Matt Kane served in President Trump’s second administration as Assistant Press Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. Follow on X:@MattKaneUSA, Truth Social: @MattKane
