Not Much Sense in "No Evidence!"

"There's no evidence!"

You've heard it over and over again. The thing is, there's not much sense in this. Just take a little time to look and see.

Still don't see? Why is that? Maybe it made some sense early on. Claims of fraud were bandied about. Claims of mountains of evidence accompanied the claims. But no real specifics. But that's all changed now.

Yet we keep hearing the ongoing shouts of "no evidence." Could it be that those who still insist on this don't know that sworn affidavits - and there are hundreds of them - comprise evidence? Why don't they know this? Could it be that they simply read a certain segment of the media and simply take what they say - "No evidence!" - at face value?

But before I slip into condemning anyone here, I remind myself: I once read those same media and once took what I read at face value. Of course, that was long ago. And from time to time in this blog - long before this election nonsense - I've pointed out, best I could, the folly in believing what you read or hear.

Where do you stand here? Are you swallowing the Kool Aid of "No evidence!"? I hope not.

Now, to be sure, I'm not taking sides here - Trump or Biden. (Well, maybe I am, but it's not relevant to the point I'm making.) You don't have to be a constituent of either camp to know that there's evidence that the elections weren't as secure and fault-free as our masters have proclaimed over and over again. You don't have to be a constituent of either camp to know that the computerized voting systems used in our elections are subject to hacking and manipulation. 

Indeed, you could search on YouTube for "Hacking Democracy" to get up to speed here. It was an HBO production in, I think, 2006, regarding the 2004 elections. The focus there was the systems manufactured by Diebold. The film shows - pretty convincingly - that the claims of voter manipulation put forth today were investigated then. Evidence of vote manipulation should have resulted (in my humble opinion) in thorough follow-up. But if there was follow-up, nothing came of it. Computerized voting instead expanded. 

So now we're stuck with our current mess. And it really is a mess. 

I don't know if you remember this, but when the first computer voting systems were offered, students in their early teens hacked into them literally in minutes. Professionals took even less time. My reaction then was: They're crazy if they use computers in our voting. But they did anyway.

We could speculate why that happened. Did the companies making these systems simply spread around the lobbyist money enough to cause election districts to selectively forget or ignore the obvious problems? Did some political players see the opportunity to manipulate more votes more efficiently than the old methods of ballot tampering that have always been with us? It's not worth speculating. We know it happened. Although the degree of finagling isn't all that clear yet, maybe it will be soon. If it's not, it needs to be investigated and investigated thoroughly. If not, we may wind up with the sort of elections you find in countries who've never known fair elections, whose results are determined by the most powerful factions.

We don't really want that, do we?

So do yourself and the rest of us a favor. Face the fact that evidence exists of voter fraud. And go one more step and face the fact these computer systems, if they're not radically improved, have no place in fair elections in our blessed country. 

And, please, learn to think for yourself and stop relying on media outlets on either side. We've seen what a disaster that's been with our ongoing C-Virus Mess. Now we're seeing it with the election. There's no end to it, unless we - free, responsible citizens of these United States - put an end to it. Otherwise we can kiss our freedom good-by.