Election Claims
November 2, 2023 at 6:38 p.m.
Editor, Times-Union:
Trump claims that there was voter fraud in Georgia that cost him the election in 2020. He also claims it happened in Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania.
In order to settle the matter, these states and other disputed states should present the ballots and have them examined by a nonpartisan team of investigators. I don't know why Trump's people or Trump himself has suggested this. The states are supposed to store the ballots to settle disputes like the one in Georgia. If the ballots can't be examined because they were destroyed, the case should be dismissed for lack of evidence. If that happened in the other states, it could be that Trump might have won the election in 2020.
I know Democrats wanted states to illegally change election laws and there were problems with many of the voting machines. Voter rolls weren't purged of dead or moved voters and IDs weren't required in many cases to verify that the votes were legally cast. Many people voted more than once for either Biden or Trump.
Trump and those that are still loyal to him in Georgia should say, "Show me the evidence." If the evidence isn't available, the case must be dismissed.
Rick Badman
Warsaw, via email
Editor, Times-Union:
Trump claims that there was voter fraud in Georgia that cost him the election in 2020. He also claims it happened in Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania.
In order to settle the matter, these states and other disputed states should present the ballots and have them examined by a nonpartisan team of investigators. I don't know why Trump's people or Trump himself has suggested this. The states are supposed to store the ballots to settle disputes like the one in Georgia. If the ballots can't be examined because they were destroyed, the case should be dismissed for lack of evidence. If that happened in the other states, it could be that Trump might have won the election in 2020.
I know Democrats wanted states to illegally change election laws and there were problems with many of the voting machines. Voter rolls weren't purged of dead or moved voters and IDs weren't required in many cases to verify that the votes were legally cast. Many people voted more than once for either Biden or Trump.
Trump and those that are still loyal to him in Georgia should say, "Show me the evidence." If the evidence isn't available, the case must be dismissed.
Rick Badman
Warsaw, via email