A dangerous claim with scant evidence
By THE DENVER POST EDITORIAL BOARD
... Requesting a recount when the outcome is close is a good check on our systems and to date, recounts, audits, and canvass processes have led to small changes in the initial vote tabulations where they have been completed. Trump’s legal team sued in Philadelphia to ensure that poll watchers could get close enough to poll workers to observe their work. Lower courts ruled observers should be permitted to be six feet from poll watchers, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that ruling last week. Trump uses the initial ruling in his favor to falsely claim that he won in the state of Pennsylvania. Before Election Day, The Supreme Court ruled that ballots in Wisconsin had to arrive at polling centers on or before Election Day regardless of when the envelopes were postmarked. Trump has falsely claimed that this ruling means ballots postmarked after election day in other states are therefore also “illegal.” That is not the case.
... we are terrified that thousands of Americans will believe Trump, Giuliani and Powell despite the complete lack of evidence presented so far. To our horror, the official Republican Party Twitter account tweeted out Powell’s most outlandish accusations. Trump’s accusations that the election is being stolen from him have led to reprehensible threats of violence against Republican and Democratic election officials throughout the country.
Powell has presented no evidence of her claims other than pointing out some very loose (often extremely dated and no-longer existent) connections between two voting software and hardware companies and foreign governments or prominent Democrats. The problem with Powell’s key allegation is that the company that actually has ties to Venezuela — Smartmatic was founded in Venezuela and did receive money from the government during the company’s founding — was only used in one place in 2020: Los Angeles County. So Powell and Giuliani are jumping through elaborate hoops to try to tie the much more widely used Dominion Voting Systems to Smartmatic. Journalists, including a detailed report from The Associated Press, have followed this thread through inquiries and records and found no connection other than that Dominion purchased a smaller company from Smartmatic around 2007. Smartmatic owned the company briefly and sold it after a Democratic congresswoman raised concerns about the potential for a foreign country to be invested in domestic voting systems. Dominion is headquartered in Denver ...
... what America really needs is for the president to admit this claim has no merit and for him to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden and begin the transition process.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/21/donald-trump-voter-fraud-smartmatic-dominion-rudy-giuliani/
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