by Selwyn Duke
The mainstream media love talking about polls, especially those showing support for their favored candidates and agendas. We hear about who’s up, who’s down, what’s hip, what brings a frown. But there’s a blockbuster new poll they may want to memory-hole, for a simple reason:
It vindicates the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump.
In fact, The Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll finds, one in five mail-in voters (20 percent) admit to having committed some type of vote fraud during that contest.
“The poll of 1,085 likely voters was conducted from November 30 to December 6, 2023,” relates Heartland.org. Heartland also summarizes the shocking findings, writing:
- 17% of mail-in voters admit that in 2020 they voted in a state where they are “no longer a permanent resident”
- 21% of mail-in voters admitted that they filled out a ballot for a friend or family member
- 17% of mail-in voters said they signed a ballot for a friend or family member “with or without his or her permission”
- 8% of likely voters say they were offered “pay” or a “reward” for voting in 2020
- Taken together, the results of these survey questions appear to show that voter fraud was widespread in the 2020 election, especially among those who cast mail-in ballots.
In addition, 19 percent of respondents said that a friend or family member filled out a ballot on their behalf.
“Every single one of these instances are illegal and constitute voter fraud,” points out Chris Talgo, editorial director at Heartland. “Moreover, these categories are not mutually exclusive, meaning respondents could have engaged in multiple forms of voter fraud.”
This is, by the way, precisely why France outlawed mail-in balloting in 1975: It’s the type of voting most prone to fraud. (Note that in the last French election, in 2022, results were delivered efficiently within 24 hours — which not long ago was the American norm, too.)
What are this fraud’s implications? Talgo provides an analysis:
In the 2020 election, 46 percent of voters cast ballots by mail. However, the proportion of Democrats who voted by mail was significantly higher than Republicans. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, 58 percent of Biden voters voted by mail compared to 32 percent of Trump voters.
If voters for Trump and Biden both cast fraudulent mail-in ballots at roughly the same 20 percent rate, it would mean an outsized number of Biden’s votes were potentially fraudulent simply because Biden received nearly twice the total number of mail-in votes than Trump.
Using simple arithmetic and 2020 election data, we can estimate that Biden received approximately 47 million votes by mail whereas Trump received about 24 million. Now, if we assume that 20 percent of both Trump and Biden mail-in votes were cast fraudulently, it would mean that Biden received nearly 10 million illegal votes and Trump received close to 5 million mail-in votes that should not have counted.
Next, if we extrapolate those numbers across the battleground states, several of which were decided by less than a 20,000-vote margin, it is more than likely that Trump would have carried enough battleground states to win the Electoral College.
In reality, though, Talgo surely understates the case for a simple reason: Vote fraud is primarily a Democratic Party phenomenon. This is why it is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who oppose voter ID. They do this despite supporting identification requirements for anything else in life that matters — and despite the fact that the United Nations “observers” who monitored our 2012 election, with Democrats’ blessing, said they “were shocked to see that the requirement of a photo ID isn’t a standard requirement at voting locations throughout the country,” related Breitbart at the time.
This assessment of Democrat wrongdoing isn’t mere partisan bias, either. Just consider an admission by Democrat operative Scott Foval, on hidden camera in 2016. “There is a level of adherence to rules on the other side [Republicans],” he said, “that only when you’re at the very highest level, do you get over.”
Talgo further points out that our 2020 election was historically unprecedented in that, using Covid-19 as a pretext, states bypassed legislatures and illegally altered election standards so as to normalize mail-in voting and nix validation measures such as signature verification. Note that Barack Obama himself once said that signature verification was necessary for ballot security.
Yet there’s still more evidence of our system’s rampant vote fraud. A sampling:
- The aforementioned Scott Foval also admitted in 2016 that he and his Democrats have been stealing votes “for 50 years, and we’re not going to stop now.”
- The same year, then-NYC election commissioner, Democrat Alan Schulkin, stated on hidden camera that “they should ask for your ID. I think there is a lot of voter fraud.”
- In 2020, a “top Democratic operative” told the New York Post that he and his team have been committing mail-in vote fraud “on a grand scale, for decades” and that it “could be enough to flip states.” He also revealed that anti-Trump/Republican postal workers facilitate the fraud by sometimes throwing away ballots from GOP strongholds.
- The winner of Florida, Iowa, and Ohio had won the presidency for perhaps as long as the three states have been part of the union and certainly had for 60 years, since Richard Nixon won them but lost an election widely regarded to have been stolen. Donald Trump won all three states by comfortable margins — but “lost” the 2020 election.
- There also are the 19 bellwether counties that had supported the presidential victor in every contest since 1980, 18 of which Trump won (the one he lost had instituted a new voting system more susceptible to fraud).
More could be said, but the bottom line is that there’s a reason a 2022 poll found that a plurality (46 percent) of Americans believe the 2020 election was stolen: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
And where the smoke is blinding, the fire is raging — to the point where, without corrective action, it will immolate our Republic.