Overturning the U.S. Presidential Election

Here are some reasons why this election will not be overturned.

• The first and most important is that there is no evidence whatsoever of voter fraud, at least at any scale.  As three-term Republican Senator Rick Santorum said about his home state, Pennsylvania, “The idea that there was a conspiracy to cheat on a massive level across 67 counties is just ludicrous.”

• OK, but what about a few large counties?  The largest concentration of votes is Philadelphia, but Biden didn’t do particularly well there; Hilary Clinton actually performed better there in 2016 than Biden did in 2020.

• Bipartisan nonprofits tell us quite clearly that both in-person and mail-in votes have a long history of very high accuracy and integrity in the country.  Incidents of voter fraud are very rare.

• The national results are in line with what dozens of different national polls predicted.

• The results are also in line with what one would have predicted because of the volume of mail-in votes, and the timing by which they were counted.  Republicans were instructed to vote in person, Democrats by mail.  Thus late-counted (mail-in) ballots are also all Democrat, they are more predictive of voting Democratic “than Subaru ownership,” as one pundit put it.

• In 2020, the pandemic gave each of our 50 states heightened reason to encourage voting by mail.

• By the time all the ballots are counted, Trump will have lost this election by a huge margin, probably 7 million popular votes.  If you’re the U.S. Supreme Court, it doesn’t seem like an appealing position to have to tell 150 million American voters and the rest of the world that the will of the people has been totally dashed.  It would invalidate the institution permanently, and embarrass the country on the world stage even more profoundly than it already is, if that’s possible.

The noose continues to tighten around the president, just as it should.