Vol. 39, No. 23

12/11/2023

Why Election Integrity Matters

After the 2020 presidential election, Americans were inundated with news about alleged voter fraud that tipped the scales in favor of Democratic candidate Joe Biden. 

Many conservatives, Trump supporters in particular, believed that massive election tampering had occurred in populous counties of five “battleground” states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — in order to give Biden the victory. Democratic voters and the mainstream media, predictably, laughed off such accusations as “baseless,” calling Trump’s continued insistence that Biden won fraudulently the “Big Lie,” a not-so-subtle reference to a term used by Adolf Hitler in his Mein Kampf . Trump’s January 6 rally in Washington, D.C., and the subsequent riot at the U.S. Capitol only served to further fan the flames of division over the election.

Three years later, while the political climate has cooled somewhat since late 2020-early 2021, Americans are still divided on the topic of election integrity.   

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