By David Robb ——Bio and Archives--February 21, 2024
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Officials don't want to admit there is significant fraud in our elections because "that would reduce essential trust in our election processes". I'm sorry, but that train has left the station. Denial of fraud now just increases the mistrust that has grown as more and more fraud is revealed.
Their excuse is like someone not wanting to tell you that sandwich you're about to consume is poisoned because then you wouldn't eat the sandwich. The only reason they wouldn't tell you is because they want you to die. Does it mean that election officials want our country to die? One wonders.
In the previous article, I wrote how easy it is to generate fraudulent ballots through use of voter rolls. The next problem for those who would corrupt elections is to get those ballots injected into the system to be counted. Fortunately for them, many states, including California, have made provision for such a contingency—ballot drop boxes.
Drop boxes are part of what I call the Election Fraud Triad. The Triad consists of dirty voter rolls, ballot drop boxes, and vote by mail, and together those three elements ensure that election fraud is easy, hard to detect, and widespread enough to change the outcome of most elections.
The ways that drop boxes contribute to fraud are legion. Let me introduce you to a few.
Ballot drop boxes are justified on the basis that they prevent ballot theft, that they are needed for people who don't trust the postal service, and that they make voting more convenient. All of these are red herrings, possibly designed to distract from what might be the real purpose of drop boxes.
Ballot theft is so old school. Modern election fraud relies on adding lots of ballots to the count, not on subtracting a relatively small number of ballots through theft. Most drop boxes are located only a short distance from a post office or mail pickup point. Fifty feet from my front door is a cluster mailbox where I can deposit my ballot. As for trusting the postal service, yes there have been cases of lost ballots or of outright theft, but again, the numbers are generally too small to matter.
For the purposes of inserting large numbers of ballots into the system, drop boxes are hard to beat and rank among the top three or four methods used.
The movie ‘2000 Mules’ documented how thousands of ballots were introduced into the election process. In the California fraud case reported earlier, drop boxes were likely used to deposit ballots.
Once placed in a drop box, fraudulent........