Election Counting Debacles
The President and what remains of his team are complaining about a rigged election that they lost by what appears likely to be 6 million votes when NY and CA finish their counting. After months of extensive efforts to suppress the vote, they are now trying to rig the ballot counting, the election certification, and the transition of power.
So far the participation rates broke all records, and Joe Biden has won a huge victory in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. Yesterday, Republican election officials in Detroit tried to block certification of the vote counts, only to reverse course at the last moment. In Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, Senator Graham has been calling Republican elections officials trying to persuade them to reverse the mail in ballots being counted for Biden; to my mind, this is extremely unethical behavior for a US Senator and an attorney. In Pennsylvania, Rudy Giuliani is trying to reverse Biden’s large electoral ballot victory by making wholly unsupported fact claims in the local courts; this too is unethical behavior violating the canons of ethics for attorneys. The President fired the Department of Homeland Security official responsible for assuring election security because he stated this was the most secure election in the nation’s history. Local GOP election officials and lawmakers are receiving death threats from Trump voters if they do not reverse the election results in Biden’s favor by taking action through their state legislatures to override the popular vote in their states and instead send Trump supporting electors to the Electoral College. The President has been threatening GOP leaders in Ohio and Georgia who don’t support his claims to have won the election. The GSA somehow finds itself unable to “ascertain” the election results and allow the Biden transition team access to agencies, information and funding. Remember even if they cannot, that they each took an oath of office to defend the US Constitution, not Donald Trump’s increasingly dangerous lies and behaviors.
This would be low (Borat style) comedy or crude Communist propaganda if it were not playing out in Surround Screen, Dolby Sound and Technicolor before our eyes and ears in real time. The nation’s elected GOP Senators and Representatives have been consciously mute or taking the President’s side in contesting the legitimacy of an election the President lost, not by a few hanging chads, but in a landslide, apparently thinking this will help them win two still outstanding Senate seats in Georgia. And for the sake of all that is our tattered economy, 47 GOP Senators yesterday voted for Trump’s Federal Reserve Bank nominee, Judy Shelton who inter alia wants to return the nation to the Gold Standard.
Remember this behavior the next time they are on your ballot, and let’s finish the job of saving our democracy.
Lucien Wulsin
11/18/20