I find the article itself to be a masterclass in propoganda. As someone that follows this loosely, the article makes some good points, but totally skips over everything of importance from the perspective of half the country.

The real genesis of these audits, which could fairly be called witch hunts, is the purposeful weakening of security practices in election law.

Democrats went first and changed all kinds of laws, legally and not so legally. They purposefully made fraud easier, knowing that no one would be able to look into fraud without probable cause. That means anyone could grab a neighbor's ballot, fill it out, and mail it in. Or troll datasets to find eligible voters and then register and vote for them. Did this happen? No one knows yet. Democrats batted first, and claimed victory with a myriad of shady election laws and procedure changes. Nothing Trump supporters could do. It certainly seems fair to me that Trump supporters get their at bat, and these audits are exactly that.

We are at an interesting crossroads where weakened election security meets heightened scrutiny.

The interesting thing is that no one actually knows the baseline fraud rate.

Almost certainly in this polarized time where everyone and every institution was out to get Trump, the fraud rate is higher.

I think the real fear here is that cheating did take place, and Republicans have a pretty good idea where to find it. If they find it, even a 0.25% fraud rate would taint all the other elections, unfairly so because they picked the worse hotspots to investigate.

The real devil is in the details, and neither side will tell you the truth.

For example, there are probably enough "illegal" votes out there to throw the results of the election in doubt, but no judge would ever overturn the results. What am I talking about? Take Georgia and Stacy Abrams get out the vote campaign. They "Illegally" encouraged teens under the age of 17.5 to register to vote. Thousands registered before they were eligible to register. The problem is they would have been 18 when the election happened anyway, so the illegal registration is kind of moot.

And yet it's a perfect illustration of the disregard for laws and rules on the Left, and the Right then using those transgressions to push the narrative that there are tens of thousands of illegal votes. Technically true, but those voters had the right to vote, and their intent was clear. No judge is going to throw those votes out.

Another example is the "indefinitely confined" issue in Wisconsin (?). Same deal. 100,000+ people LIED. For convenience, or for whatever other reason. But they were eligible to vote, and made their intent clear even if they registered or voted Illegally.

In these instances and more, lawmakers and decision makers, legally and illegally injected the potential for massive abuses into the election system.

They did so because they were given the message right from the top, "Every vote counts".

Whether massive fraud took place is unknown as of now. The previous audits weren't looking for that. They had their hands tied and were only looking to make sure the system operated as it should. They weren't looking into the weaknesses of the system. They weren't allowed too.

And we haven't even touched on the Center for Civic Life and the one sided effort they did.

I believe the statistical anomalys seen in urban areas of the 5 states are not proof positive of fraud, but proof positive of a job well done by Mark Zuckerberg.

These audits are Trumps revenge, and everyone deserves to know the truth of what happened. To not use illegal rule changes and irregularities as probable cause to perform mass forensic audits would be a disservice to the nation. This opportunity to legally investigate and come up with an answer to "how much fraud is there" may never come around again, certainly not for a generation or two.