The run-up to and aftermath from the 2020 election has been rough, and it hasn’t been made any easier by the flooding of social media with dubious claims of fraud. One source of many such claims is in this article from The Federalist.
I’m almost certain that the originators of most of those claims are often suggesting them in bad faith, but for the purpose of this article, I’ll assume the people repeating them do actually care about the integrity of our elections. Thus, instead of insulting them or posting memes (well maybe just one, but not until later), which would be an unproductive exercise, I’m going to take them at their word and discuss the realities of some specific claims I see repeated all over Facebook, Twitter, NextDoor, Reddit, and other web-based hell holes where our humanity goes to die. …
This is a follow-up to my previous piece looking at specific fraud claims in the 2020 U.S. election. As with that piece, I’ll try to look at these claims factually and take them seriously, in the interest of fair discourse, even though I am admittedly a skeptic. I would ask anyone claiming fraud to have the same courtesy. If you didn’t read my previous piece, I recommend you go read it now, as this is a logical continuation.
Claim 8: Fraudulently-postmarked ballots in Pennsylvania
This was brought up on Facebook by one commenter in response to Claim 7 (Pennsylvania Postmarks) in my previous article. In that claim I focused on the allegation that Pennsylvania’s ballot postmarking rules, and the interpretation of their Supreme Court, encourage fraud. …
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