Election software expert hired by Trump debunks ex-president’s 'steady diet of lies and innuendo'
After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes, Trump's claim that the election was stolen from him was repeatedly debunked. And some of the debunking came software engineer/elections technology expert Ken Block.
Trump and his allies hired Block in the hope of convincing others that widespread voter fraud occurred, but Block found no such fraud. And Block's findings were used as evidence by the January 6 Select Committee in 2022.
Block, owner of Simpatico Voting Systems and author of the forthcoming book "Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data That Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections," revisits Trump's "steady diet of lies and innuendo" in an op-ed published by USA Today on January 2.
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"Our findings have also been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith's federal investigation and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation in Georgia," Block explains. "Those e-mails and documents show that the voter data available to the campaign contained no evidence of large-scale voter fraud based on data mining and fraud analytics. More important, claims of voter fraud made by others were verified as false, including proof of why those claims were disproven."'
The election technolgy expert continues, "And yet, the cries that the election was lost or stolen due to voter fraud continue with no sign of stopping. Whether a stump speech, outrageous lawsuits like the so-called Kraken cases filed by Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani’s lies or the ongoing misguided efforts of people determined to prove the election was stolen, the constant drumbeat hardens people's hearts and minds to the truth about the 2020 election."
Block argues that while the United States' voting system has some room for improvement, Trump and Giuliani's lies about the 2020 election continue to do the United States an incredible disservice.
"A better use of time, money and energy would be to address systemic weaknesses in our election systems — such as the distressing lack of national election infrastructure to enforce election integrity, destructive practices to our elections such as gerrymandering, and leveling the playing field so that our elections become fairer and more competitive," Block writes. "If voter fraud had impacted the 2020 election, it would already have been proven. Maintaining the lies undermines faith in the foundation of our democracy."
Ken Block's full USA Today op-ed is available at this link.
