Mitch McConnell Suspected of Cheating in 2020 Election
By: Jim West
Tags: Integrity, Elections, Democrats, Republican Party, Politics

Mitch McConnell Suspected of Cheating in 2020 Election

modified image from newsweek.com

There have been a hand full of articles on this platform over election fraud this season, and most of it gets ignored because the accusations are favorable toward Trump. People assume that it’s just Trumpsters getting upset “because he lost.” But would Democrats feel the same if it was one of their own that was cheated out? Indeed, statistical anomalies are showing that Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, may not have been playing fair, perhaps cheating Democrat Amy McGrath out of a Senate seat. Let’s look into that just as I did with the presidential race, because fraud accusations are less about who won or lost, and more about election integrity.

It begins with very low approval ratings for Mitch McConnell. In a 2017 article in Breitbart, according to a Harvard-Harris poll, McConnell had the lowest approval rating of “any elected official with a national profile.” His approval rating was a mere 19%. Even in his own party, he only had 32% approval. As the 2020 election approached, McConnells numbers improved, riding Trump’s coat tails, but there were always more who DIS-approved. However, we all know how accurate polls have been lately, so let’s dig into these election anomalies.

Allison Greene, of DCReport.org, investigated data in primarily 3 Kentucky counties that strongly suggests McConnell’s race was less than free and fair.

Democrat strongholds voting for McConnell:

In counties with strong Democrat support, some having never voted for a Republican Senator, somehow, this time, they changed their mind and pulled the lever for McConnell even though his approval numbers were in the tank not long ago.

Likewise, in the governors race just last year (2019), counties who voted Democrat suddenly had a change of heart when voting for their Senate leader this year. This was even true in counties who always, always vote for Democrats, as they historically do in Elliott and Wolfe counties. But not this year. In fact, this year, for unbelievable reasons, Elliott county voted 64% for McConnell while Wolfe county voted 66% for McConnell. What could explain this sudden change of loyalty?

To give a specific example, DCReport found that in Breathitt county, where there are 9,500 registered Democrats and only 1,600 registered Republicans, the Democrat contender only received 1,652 votes compared to McConnell’s 3,738. That’s a 69% to 31% advantage for the Republican in an overwhelming Democrat county. The numbers are not making sense.

Down-ballot anomalies:

There were higher than normal discrepancies for down-ballots votes, meaning that most people who voted Democrat on the rest of the ballot, somehow had a change of mind when they voted for Senate, choosing the unpopular McConnell. The down-ballot anomalies were also contrary to many pre-election polls.

More registered voters than eligible voters:

In 48 of the 120 counties in Kentucky, there are more voters on their rolls than their are people of voting age. Population data estimates about 9,700 eligible voters in Breathitt county, yet there’s nearly 11,500 registered voters. The right-wing foundation, Judicial Watch, sued Kentucky in 2017 force them to clean up their voter rolls, but apparently they refused or never got around to it. On this issue, Greene concludes, “Kentucky’s inflated voter rolls and lack of transparency provide a perfect cover for malfeasant behavior regarding the election results.”

This report about McConnell’s questionable win is slowly getting around, but somebody must have told Bette Midler, loud mouth that she is. In a Newsweek report, she found the blustering beneath her wings to outright accuse McConnell of stealing his election, and perhaps she’s right.

In McConnell’s case, the cause of these anomalies are not known, but Greene speculates that perhaps the voting machines were rigged. In Kentucky they don’t use the Dominion machines that have been in the news, but rather a machine made by Election Systems & Software (ES&S). She goes on to claim that several other Republican states also use ES&S machines, implying that perhaps Republicans are using these machines for a reason. And perhaps, Dominion machines are being used by Democrats for a reason. Could our elections be that ugly? I’m starting to think they are.

Sidney Powell, Trump’s lead lawyer in the Dominion fraud claims, said at her first press release a few weeks ago that Dominion machines were used to cheat Bernie Sanders out of nominations against both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in the primaries. So far, nothing that Powell has claimed has been proven wrong, so maybe Democrats should start being a little more concerned about election fraud too. It appears that our leaders are not being chosen by us, the people, but by the few and the powerful with lots of money.

If Republicans are also using tabulating machines to cheat, maybe that’s why McConnell has been rather quiet when it comes to Trump’s allegations of fraud. Perhaps he really doesn’t want investigators to look very far down that road. Maybe that’s why a bunch of Republicans are begging Trump to concede.

Regardless of how much or little truth there is in these accusations, if we are to have election integrity, it is imperative that we stop using these complex tabulating machines. There is no need for these machines to have USB ports, laptop compatibility, and even blue tooth and WiFi access.

Another suspicious thing these machines do is create a digital image of the ballot before it gets counted. This allows the controller, if necessary, to change the votes on the ballot. This feature was created in the rare event that a ballot can not be read by the machine, in which case, the controller can input what the ballot says manually. But it also allows for dishonest controllers to adjust anyone’s ballot at will. Here is a stunning video of an election supervisor demonstrating these features. The mere possibility of these machines having that much control over ballots should, in itself, make these machines illegal.

To demonstrate just how insecure these machines are, this 6-minute CNN video from 2017 of students hacking into voting machines should wake everyone up. (Incidentally, this story was done because Democrats felt like there was election machine fraud in the 2016 election.)

We need to get back to basics with these machines. They need to simply count dots on paper and spit out a paper receipt with the election results. Having trust in our election system is paramount to sustaining our democratic republic.