Craziness. Nothing But Craziness

Did you know that just because someone makes an allegation of wrongdoing against someone a police investigation doesn't necessarily take place? If I call the local police department and tell them that you're operating an illicit drug manufacturing factory in your family room, absent any other information, they're probably not going to investigate. They're certainly not going to arrest you based on this allegation. But what if there was "suspicious" goings-on? What if I was at the pharmacy and saw you buy a box of Sudafed? If I noticed that you had a new car? If you looked around furtively as you took your trash out to the curb and objected when I insisted that I open up your trash bags to verify that nothing illegal was going on? Nope. Still no arrest. If for some reason the cops show up and you tell them, you got a huge bonus which enabled you to afford the car and that you had a cold last week, that will be the end of it. Nothing to see here.

This is figuratively what's going on with the accusations of election fraud. Virtually every instance of "suspicious" activity reports, when it isn't an out-and-out partisan attempt to undermine confidence in the electoral system, is the result of people seeing things that they don't understand and jumping to incorrect conclusions. Every single report of suspicious activity has been answered by the appropriate election official and without exception has been explained to be either a lack of understanding of the ballot counting process, an actual error that was caught and corrected already, or something that had nothing to do with the ballot counting or election system. Every single instance of discrepancies between votes cast and the number of registered voters, or any other numerical discrepancy, has turned out to be based on inaccurate information. One such error involved using the population of several Minnesota cities to point out supposed irregularities in Michigan cities. Another pointed to a difference in number of votes reported by the state and an unofficial database which all districts had not uploaded their information into, and where not required to. In areas where it was alleged that vote counting machine algorithms where changing vote totals to favor Biden, an audit and recount of paper ballots showed no such thing. 

Over and above the perceived irregularities, accusations of the creation of large numbers of ballots for Biden in six or seven different states, in hundreds of jurisdictions using dozens of voting methods, with officials overseeing the vote from both major parties, and judges, most of whom were appointed by Trump, adjudicating the lawsuits aimed at overturning the votes of millions of people, if true, would have required a conspiracy so vast that it boggles the mind. 

So vast that it couldn't possibly have held together. 

Despite the insanity required to believe that such a nefarious, yet impossible, scenario took place, Trump is still claiming that he won, and not just that he won, but that it was a landslide, and several supporters are actually planning to attempt to suppress enough electoral votes next week to give Trump a victory that he did not earn.

It's done. 

The votes are counted, the states have certified, the judges, including the Supreme Court, have ruled, the Electoral College has cast their votes (which in a normal year would be a formality). All that is left is one more formality, the opening of the envelopes containing the electoral vote totals by the Vice President, their tabulation and the formal declaration that Biden has been elected president. 

It's done. Shut up & go home.