Dead People Voted in Georgia

All sorts of allegations have been made concerning the fairness of the 2020 election.

The mainstream media continues to claim that the election was fair because there were more  than 60 legal actions (the “challenge” cases) brought by Donald Trump supporters alleging  significant improprieties that all went down to defeat in the courts. On the other hand,  Trump supporters continue to allege that the election was not fair because there were few if any  evidentiary hearings in  those  60 legal cases relative to irregularities surrounding election certification, voter I.D. issues, mail-in-ballots and a host of other anomalies.  Indeed, an overwhelming number of these cases were summarily dismissed for “lack of standing” or some other purely procedural issue.

For a review of the challenge cases see this.

FAIRNESS: SPORTS AND ELECTIONS

So was the 2020 election really fair or not?

To understand the issue of fairness, let’s compare election results to the score in an NBA basketball game. Assume that the Celtics scored more points than the Knicks in a game played last night.  Scoring more points than your opponent normally means that you win the game and that any recount  of  points scored would confirm that result.

Election results are similar to basketball scores.  The candidate with the most votes—the highest score—is normally declared the winner. Now the loser might challenge the result by asking for a recount of votes
but should that recount produce very similar results, the candidate with the most votes would still win.

But  let’s assume that an analysis of the game  confirms  that the referees allowed the Celtics to double-dribble (a standard rule infraction) while the Knicks were not allowed. And let’s assume that the analysis shows that the referees allowed the Celtics to continue to use players with more than 5 fouls; the Knicks were not allowed to do that. Finally, let’s assume that the analysis showed that each Celtic free throw counted for 2 points while each Knicks free throw counted for the usual single  point.  Now, would we still have confidence that the game was fair and that the Celtics—who scored the most points–were really the legitimate  winner?

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