There is much sniping going on between (and within) the political parties concerning the fairness of the 2020 election and the state legislative efforts since to plug the loopholes revealed thereby. An article at American Greatness looks at this back-and-forth.
I've concluded that COTTonLINE should go on the record about what we do and don't believe about this issue. Let me say straight out that President Trump's assertion that the election was stolen is extreme. He has presented no proof this is so.
On the other hand, Democrat efforts to prevent a forensic examination of the results makes one suspect they have something to hide. The various changes done for the first time in that election as reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic are reason enough to suspect opportunities for mischief were created and in some, perhaps many, instances exploited.
Therefore, our position is that we don't know whether or not the 2020 election was roughly as honest as, say, the prior 8-10 were. There is reason to believe it may not have been, and a variety of local officials and Democrat operatives are stonewalling efforts to examine the results.
It appears we will never know to what extent the 2020 results as reported reflect what actually occurred. And unfortunately that means we will argue about the outcome ad nauseam.
COTTonLINE supports efforts by state legislatures to make future election fraud more difficult and risky.
