Democrats have been very clear on their feelings about those who question election integrity or vote totals from the 2020 election. Such doubt is baseless, dangerous, and all but short of treason, according to their reaction to questions over irregularities, oversight, or other issues with voting in the last presidential election.
“Anything that aids and abets doubts about an election that has been conducted with integrity makes the future of democracy darker,” experts told the Washington Post.
Democrat officials in states like Arizona said that it was “dangerous” to allow questions about election integrity “to go on even one more day.”
FiveThirtyEight reported that doubt the 2020 election was conducted fairly and accurately created “very real questions about American democracy and whether it will remain intact.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called Republican questions about the election outcome a “temper tantrum” adding they need to “stop deliberately and recklessly sowing doubt about our democratic process.”
A group of more than 150 U.S. election officials called the 2020 election “the most secure in American history” and instructed any citizens who have questions about the validity of election results to “turn to elections officials as trusted voices.”
Welp, in New York City, Democrats are now the ones setting off alarm bells about election integrity and vote totals after a recent tally of their mayoral primary results showed the frontrunner's lead close to just 2.2 points.
Candidate Eric Adams' campaign issued a statement saying “the vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions. We have asked the Board of Elections to explain such a massive increase and other irregularities before we comment on the Ranked Choice Voting projection. We remain confident that Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York because he put together a historic five-borough working class coalition of New Yorkers to make our city a safer, fairer, more affordable place," the statement added.
Lo and behold, the same liberal media outlets that had warned of America’s end when Republicans raised questions about 2020 results did not slam Adams for his statement.
On MSNBC, Chuck Todd opined about New York City's primary election: “It seems to me they should put out all the raw vote totals… at least make it available for the media, the press, the public to be able to essentially double-check the work the way normal elections are done.”
The same leftist talking heads who told us that questioning the integrity of an election was an assault on democracy are now questioning the legitimacy of the New York City mayoral race without batting an eye. pic.twitter.com/gutfbEMG2y
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Rather than criticizing the candidate questioning vote totals, Chuck Todd put the blame on election officials. Current Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio also attacked the “fundamental structural flaws” of his city’s Board of Elections, saying the mistake in tabulation means “there must be an immediate, complete recanvass of the BOE’s vote count and a clear explanation of what went wrong.” Funny how that works, given Democrats’ attacks on Republicans who called for recounts, audits, and greater accountability for election officials in the wake of 2020.
As it turns out, Adams was right to question the results. The NYC Board of Elections would admit, there were fake votes included in their tally. "It has been determined that ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the Election Management System (EMS)," explained a statement from the BOE. "When the cast vote records were extracted for the first pull of [ranked choice voting] results, it included both test and election night results, producing 135,000 additional records."
If Adams hadn’t questioned the legitimacy of the result, it's unknown whether the mistake would have ever been noticed or if those 130,000-plus invalid votes could have changed the outcome of the primary.
Of course, questioning elections is not a new venture for those on the Left. It was the Democrats who pursued an overthrow of President Trump’s 2016 victory with a years-long assault on the outcome of that presidential election.
The events of this week proved again that it's apparently ok for Democrats to question vote totals, demand audits, and attack election officials yet untenable for Republicans to do the same. As with most electoral and campaign strategies in the Democrats’ playbook, what’s good for them is near-treason when Republicans do the same.
