The 2016
Presidential election raised the specter of foreign intervention in the outcome
of the voting. There are two levels of alleged intervention being bandied
about, one far more serious but the lesser discussed, and the other far more
discussed but less significant. One level is hard-core and the other is
soft-core. The hard-core is tangible vote count and report tampering. The
soft-core is the spreading of propaganda and mis-information to influence
citizens to vote for one candidate (or against the others) or to not vote at
all.
One can
argue that paying people to influence voters is not really a criminal act even
if carried out by a hostile foreign government. After all, once a foreigner
passes his message to an American and that American chooses to believe it, the
message becomes his no matter from where it originated. The propagation of
false and inflammatory messages is currently protected by the 1st amendment to
the US Constitution.
On the other
hand, tampering with vote counts and reports is a Federal crime regardless of
who commits it and may also be treason if committed by an American citizen.
There are
many allegations of vote count irregularities taking place in key precincts and
states. Many of those irregularities did not constitute the basis of flipping
the outcome of the Presidential election. However, there were three or four
state outcomes which do suggest that tampering might have played a role in the
rise of Donald Trump to the White House. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Trump won those states by 68236, 11837 and 27257 votes. Choosing those states
to look at for irregularities is not 20/20 hindsight not is it sour grapes for
Hillary losing. These states were targeted to be numerically flipped after
historically voting for Democrat presidential candidates. Anyone seeking to
push a candidate would look at those states. These ballot numbers represent
0.09 % of the electorate.
Most of
today's politics does not revolve around influencing who a voter should vote
for but to influence them to vote against the opposition or not vote at all.
There is another set of factors playing into the outcomes of elections. Voter
Suppression.
Vote
suppressions is a matter of convincing people to not bother the vote because it
is a "useless" activity since "both parties are the same".
Only the lesser party would cling to that message. Making voting more difficult
is another tactic which the "party in power" employs. If you make
voting a day long ordeal with hours-long lines, people might stay home the next
time. Closing polling places and shortening early voting hours also make the
main Election Day more onerous. Purging voter rolls also make it difficult at
the last minute for a person to cast a ballot. All of these tactics while maybe
legal are immoral and counter to the Constitution. It is highly suspicious that
all legal vote suppression targets geographic regions where the residents are
most likely to vote for Democrats.
And let's
not even get started on Gerrymandering of districts to position Republicans in
state legislatures where the other voting rules are formulated and promulgated.
Since recent
election have "razor-thin" margins it is far too easy to manipulate a
few vote counts and flip an entire election. One doesn't need to compromise
every voting machine in a state, just the ones that are projected to be key in
the election.
Conspiracies
to flip elections do not need a lot of conspirators. A reverse Engineering of
the process shows where to apply assets. One doesn't need to compromise voting
machines when the people who do the reporting are part of the conspiracy.
Complicity is also a factor even when the people are not part of the actual
plan. When tampered results are certified and recounts denied, the people who
do that are indeed complicit but not guilty of conspiracy.
In the 2000
election of George W. Bush ultimately 537 votes in Florida and the Supreme
Court set the results. The Florida Governor and the Florida Courts made it all
but impossible to get a final recount completed.
The 2016
election has not been adequately challenged in courts. There has been no
comprehensive analysis of the results to demonstrate the veracity of the
counts. There is however ample evidence that some level of Russian tampering
took place and might have tipped the election in favor of a Republican
Administration.
One must
keep in mind that if the election was tampered with and flipped, both Trump and
Pence were illegally put into office.
Every cabinet appoint is tainted. Every Judiciary appointment is illegitimate.
Every Executive Order and Presidential Directive is suspect to being
promulgated to the benefit of the foreign money. America is being turned into
"Tuna!" as presented in the concept of It's All Tuna!
