Illinois' Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter from Northfield recently shared his thoughts on election fraud in a press release issued by the Cook County Republican Party.
Porter first mentioned a case brought forward by the State of Texas that he says was dismissed for lack of standing.
"The court expressed no opinion with respect to the validity, truth or falseness of the underlying complaints regarding violations of election laws, fraud or of the U.S. Constitution," Porter wrote in the release.
Some officials are concerned with they see as proof of election fraud
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Porter says there is evidence that the fraud was extensive, which could have changed the election results.
"The challenge is proving the fraud and other legal violations more likely than not changed the election," Porter said.
In Nevada, the Republican Party presented evidence which showed 8,000 ballots didn't physically exist in addition to 2,368 votes that were cast by voters who had changed their address to another state or county. Nevada also presented evidence that 42,000 voters voted twice in the state and 1,500 of voters in the state are legally deceased.
"Under our current systems, after the ballots are opened, counted and intermingled, there is no practical means of identifying which ballots were the illegal ballots, and thus almost no practical means of successfully bearing the burden in court of proving the illegal ballots changed the result," Porter wrote in the press release.
Porter also said that Democrats have shown a disregard for election fraud.
"They fight to change long established election laws to eliminate ballot custody security, proof of voter identity and partisan oversight of the counting process," Porter wrote. "Naturally, Republicans are suspicious of, and angry at, folks that do what they can to eliminate safeguards against fraud; and then blithely dismiss all evidence of fraud, without even looking at the evidence. And it is largely Democrat elected officials in the areas where laws protecting the vote were disregarded."
Even with evidence showing election fraud, Porter said there isn't a legal remedy to fix or prevent fraud.
"People of good faith should all support a legal system that promotes free and fair voting while preventing fraud. And we need reforms to provide an effective legal remedy to voters when the institutions entrusted with implementing our election laws violate them. There’s so much that’s been wrong about this election...tens of millions of Americans are seething. We have a crisis of confidence in a basic building block of our representative system. This is a serious issue, the anger is widespread and real, not manufactured, and it won’t go away," Porter wrote in the press release.
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