Election cheating has always existed. I could be charitable to Democrats and say that Republicans have had their share of cheating too so as to not make them feel left out, but truth of the matter is, in my many years of observing the occasional complaints of cheating, accusations against Republicans have always been short on details and were more generalized. The Democrat’s usual tricks were storied to the point that everyone made jokes about it, often invoking the dead out of graveyards or ‘vote early and often’. Prior to 2020, let’s just say for discussions sake, that though Democrats attracted the preponderance of guilt, we can let those by-gones be by-gones, but not 2020.
2020 introduced a new scale of ballot corruption, initiated by emergency Covid measures and cries of ‘equity’ as the progressive left claimed that certain demographic groups couldn’t find their way out of a box to vote so special accommodations were necessary, i.e. no ID, no form of verification, missing dates, missing signatures, and so forth. Public drop boxes allowing anonymous ballot dumps, then counted (in choice jurisdictions) by questionable means, and a whole list of other ballot deficiencies were declared legal for the 2020 election and have since been declared illegal in most jurisdictions. Counting centers that were to have been closed at a certain hour were closed – but then were opened again, but only for Democrat officials. Truckloads of ballots were received after hours on the night of November 3rd, 2020 and a chain of custody was never disclosed. Later, voting machines were discovered to not have adequate password protection and to also have remote backdoor access. Later forensic evidence was compiled to show that some election returns showed impossible voting patterns. It was not necessary to corrupt every local election. Districts that were overwhelming red or blue didn’t need subversion, but in swing states, few choice localities combined with cooperative legislatures and poll workers jacked the vote just enough to put Biden over the line. The 2020 election was rigged.
Not only was the 2020 election rigged but a movement was also sprung to criminalize questioning any marginalized election, but only if the ‘deniers’ were Republicans. Words like ‘denier’, ‘insurrectionist’, and endless versions of something like ‘attacking democracy’ was initiated by all regime loyalist in the aftermath of the 2020 election and continues to this day. Nevermind that many states and courts have purged the electoral system of some of those abuses that made for the actual stolen election in 2020. These pejoratives are still routinely spat with distain from the mouths of corporate leaders, famous people, Democrats of all stripes, and by the soiled never-Trumpers who’ve thoroughly abandoned conservatism and break bread with their progressive former counterparts.
The conservative response to the ‘denier’ slur has been inadequate. ‘Denier’ still has traction only because conservatives have not adequately simplified the counter message. If you must resort to treatise to counter a word, you’ve lost. Simplicity is what I offer here; what is a vote and what is an election?
One qualified voter = one vote = secure election
Not all states and jurisdictions can guarantee that all voters are qualified. Not all states and jurisdictions can guarantee that all voters will have only one vote. When they are guaranteed, the election is secure. An unsecure election can be stolen and has been stolen in the past. It is idiocy to suggest that as an election took place, therefore, it is automatically valid only because it transpired. It must be tested to assure that it met the legal threshold of a secure election. How do you convey this in one word?
Secure
The election was secure. The election was unsecure. An election took place, voters voted. Did the polls close on time? Were absentee ballots appropriately and legally documented? Did an activist postman dump 4 boxes of military servicemen polls into a ravine? Was every vote counted? Was there a legal chain of custody for the 50,000 ballots brought from a warehouse or election office? Did the delivery truck take a detour?
When the denier charge comes, and it will come, maybe not very many places in the 2022 mid-term elections, but certainly in future elections, what must be said?
We will unequivocally endorse all secure elections
It is an affirmative statement. There is no ambiguity that the endorsement is conditional and that the conditions are legitimate. Secure is a definitive standard encompassed in one word. It means that it was legal, fair, and not tampered with – but that if all those components are not present, there is no obligation to not seek redress. If any counter complainant doesn’t accept the rules and definitions of ‘qualified’, that is to be taken up by the legislature and the courts, but as for the election, it was either secure or not secure. One qualified voter = one vote = secure election.