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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4720621" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>No it’s not. <a href="https://morningconsult.com/form/tracking-voter-trust-in-elections/" target="_blank">Tracking Voter Trust in the American Electoral System</a></p><p>Sixty-three percent of voters overall say the 2020 election was free and fair, but 68 percent of Republicans say it was not. Sixty-eight percent of GOP voters say that mail-in voting led to widespread fraud, 30 percentage points higher than the share of all voters who said the same. Sixty-two percent of voters say Trump’s losses in recent court cases are due to insufficient evidence, but 56 percent of Republicans say it’s because those courts are biased against him.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/its-official-election-was-secure[/URL]</p><p>The nation’s top intelligence and law enforcement agencies have confirmed that there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in American elections and that the 2020 election was secure.</p><p></p><h3>Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise.” – <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/wray-fbi-has-not-seen-any-kind-of-coordinated-national-voter-fraud-in-a-major-election-by-mail-92470853970" target="_blank">Christopher Wray</a>, FBI Director, September 24, 2020, hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. (Director Wray was appointed by President Trump in 2017.)</li> </ul><h3>Department of Homeland Security – Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history . . . . There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised . . . While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections . . . we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too.” – <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election" target="_blank">Joint Statement</a> by CISA, the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC), and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council (SCC), November 12, 2020.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“[Election] Day was quiet. There was no indication or evidence that there was any evidence of hacking or compromise of election systems on, before, or after November 3 . . . . We did a good job. I would do it one thousand times over.” – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBJJ1sxtEA" target="_blank">Chris Krebs</a>, Former Director of CISA, November 29, 2020.</li> </ul><p>Shortly after releasing the joint statement, Chris Krebs was fired from his position as director of CISA. His firing was directly linked to the joint statement in a <a href="https://archive.is/1gN5x" target="_blank">tweet</a> by President Trump. In a <em>60 Minutes</em> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBJJ1sxtEA" target="_blank">interview</a>, Krebs reflected on his agency’s work and described the Trump team’s claims of fraud as attempts to “undermine confidence in the election, to confuse people, to scare people . . . ”</p><p></p><h3>Department of Justice (DOJ)</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“To date, [DOJ investigators] have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” – Attorney General William Barr, December 1, 2020, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-william-barr-b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49d" target="_blank">announcement</a>.</li> </ul><p>This conclusion was especially notable in light of Attorney General Barr’s extraordinary efforts to support President Trump’s ludicrous fraud allegations. In a break from long-standing DOJ policy, Barr announced in a November 9 <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/barr-memo-elections-fraud/9bf5cac375012c4c/full.pdf" target="_blank">memorandum</a> that federal prosecutors were authorized to investigate some election fraud cases <em>before</em> the results of the election were certified, and noted that there may be irregularities that “could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State.” The directive <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-trump-election-fraud/2020/11/10/ae2d1d5e-239d-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html" target="_blank">was roundly criticized</a> by many former DOJ officials and elections experts.</p><p></p><p>Richard Pilger, head of the DOJ’s Election Crimes branch, responded to the move by <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/10/933395215/head-of-doj-s-election-crimes-unit-steps-down-after-barr-oks-election-inquiries" target="_blank">stepping down</a> from his position. Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general signed a <a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/politics/ag-frey-calls-on-ag-barr-to-reverse-new-policy-that-will-erode-the-publics-confidence-in-the-election/97-21c1377e-f9ec-418d-8fbd-fb738c9e5fb1" target="_blank">letter</a> expressing confidence that “any such investigations will not succeed in overturning the election’s outcome,” but criticizing the move for exacting “the terrible cost of undermining trust in the democratic institutions on which this country depends.” In another critical <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-election-memo/2020/11/13/6ed06d20-25e4-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html" target="_blank">letter</a>, 16 U.S. attorneys who track election malfeasance noted that the “policy change was not based in fact” and confirmed that in their jurisdictions there was no evidence of substantial election irregularities.</p><p></p><h3>U.S. Election Assistance Commission</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“Time and time again, when the rubber hits the road, there's no evidence — whether that's in court cases, whether that's in the presidential commission that was created in 2017 to find the alleged non-citizens fraud after the 2016 election that cost, in his mind, the president the popular vote, but found nothing and disbanded in embarrassment, or academic studies. We never see evidence of widespread voter fraud. And there's no indicators that 2020 will be different in that regard.” – Benjamin Hovland, Commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, <em>Business Insider</em>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nations-chief-election-administrator-calls-trumps-voting-fraud-claims-shameful-2020-11" target="_blank">November 12, 2020</a></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4720621, member: 66082"] No it’s not. [URL="https://morningconsult.com/form/tracking-voter-trust-in-elections/"]Tracking Voter Trust in the American Electoral System[/URL] Sixty-three percent of voters overall say the 2020 election was free and fair, but 68 percent of Republicans say it was not. Sixty-eight percent of GOP voters say that mail-in voting led to widespread fraud, 30 percentage points higher than the share of all voters who said the same. Sixty-two percent of voters say Trump’s losses in recent court cases are due to insufficient evidence, but 56 percent of Republicans say it’s because those courts are biased against him. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/its-official-election-was-secure[/URL] The nation’s top intelligence and law enforcement agencies have confirmed that there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in American elections and that the 2020 election was secure. [HEADING=2]Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[/HEADING] [LIST] [*]“We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise.” – [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/video/wray-fbi-has-not-seen-any-kind-of-coordinated-national-voter-fraud-in-a-major-election-by-mail-92470853970']Christopher Wray[/URL], FBI Director, September 24, 2020, hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. (Director Wray was appointed by President Trump in 2017.) [/LIST] [HEADING=2]Department of Homeland Security – Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)[/HEADING] [LIST] [*]“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history . . . . There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised . . . While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections . . . we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too.” – [URL='https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election']Joint Statement[/URL] by CISA, the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC), and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council (SCC), November 12, 2020. [*]“[Election] Day was quiet. There was no indication or evidence that there was any evidence of hacking or compromise of election systems on, before, or after November 3 . . . . We did a good job. I would do it one thousand times over.” – [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBJJ1sxtEA']Chris Krebs[/URL], Former Director of CISA, November 29, 2020. [/LIST] Shortly after releasing the joint statement, Chris Krebs was fired from his position as director of CISA. His firing was directly linked to the joint statement in a [URL='https://archive.is/1gN5x']tweet[/URL] by President Trump. In a [I]60 Minutes[/I] [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBJJ1sxtEA']interview[/URL], Krebs reflected on his agency’s work and described the Trump team’s claims of fraud as attempts to “undermine confidence in the election, to confuse people, to scare people . . . ” [HEADING=2]Department of Justice (DOJ)[/HEADING] [LIST] [*]“To date, [DOJ investigators] have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” – Attorney General William Barr, December 1, 2020, [URL='https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-william-barr-b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49d']announcement[/URL]. [/LIST] This conclusion was especially notable in light of Attorney General Barr’s extraordinary efforts to support President Trump’s ludicrous fraud allegations. In a break from long-standing DOJ policy, Barr announced in a November 9 [URL='https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/barr-memo-elections-fraud/9bf5cac375012c4c/full.pdf']memorandum[/URL] that federal prosecutors were authorized to investigate some election fraud cases [I]before[/I] the results of the election were certified, and noted that there may be irregularities that “could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State.” The directive [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-trump-election-fraud/2020/11/10/ae2d1d5e-239d-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html']was roundly criticized[/URL] by many former DOJ officials and elections experts. Richard Pilger, head of the DOJ’s Election Crimes branch, responded to the move by [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/10/933395215/head-of-doj-s-election-crimes-unit-steps-down-after-barr-oks-election-inquiries']stepping down[/URL] from his position. Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general signed a [URL='https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/politics/ag-frey-calls-on-ag-barr-to-reverse-new-policy-that-will-erode-the-publics-confidence-in-the-election/97-21c1377e-f9ec-418d-8fbd-fb738c9e5fb1']letter[/URL] expressing confidence that “any such investigations will not succeed in overturning the election’s outcome,” but criticizing the move for exacting “the terrible cost of undermining trust in the democratic institutions on which this country depends.” In another critical [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-election-memo/2020/11/13/6ed06d20-25e4-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html']letter[/URL], 16 U.S. attorneys who track election malfeasance noted that the “policy change was not based in fact” and confirmed that in their jurisdictions there was no evidence of substantial election irregularities. [HEADING=2]U.S. Election Assistance Commission[/HEADING] [LIST] [*]“Time and time again, when the rubber hits the road, there's no evidence — whether that's in court cases, whether that's in the presidential commission that was created in 2017 to find the alleged non-citizens fraud after the 2016 election that cost, in his mind, the president the popular vote, but found nothing and disbanded in embarrassment, or academic studies. We never see evidence of widespread voter fraud. And there's no indicators that 2020 will be different in that regard.” – Benjamin Hovland, Commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, [I]Business Insider[/I], [URL='https://www.businessinsider.com/nations-chief-election-administrator-calls-trumps-voting-fraud-claims-shameful-2020-11']November 12, 2020[/URL] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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