Photo: No-excuse postal voting map of the US.svg, 2023; author: Timeshifter; Lic.: CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
2020 was a year fraught with change and crisis, and one major change seems to have been forgotten by all of us. The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, resulting in life-altering lockdowns, and Black Lives Matter protests caused widespread destruction in almost every big city. With so many big events, people seldom remember the insidious and dishonest change that happened in our election system: the implantation of widespread mail-in voting.
America First Legal exposed a tremendous amount of misinformation surrounding mail-in voting by suing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA. The lawsuit unearthed documents that showed the deep state knew there were risks to mail-in voting, but kept these risks from the public under the guise of fighting disinformation.
September 2020 documents show the CISA found in-person voting did not increase the spread of COVID-19. The CISA also recognized that there would be great challenges with voting by mail, including “the process of mailing and returning ballots,” the “high numbers of improperly completed ballots (figures not yet released),” and “the shortage of personnel to process ballots in a prompt manner.”
The Agency recognized many areas in which mail-in voting would invite fraud, foremost among them being “implementation in a compressed timeline.” That is to say, they knew rolling out mail-in voting quickly would invite fraud, but a quick roll-out is exactly what happened. Meanwhile, CISA monitored the supposed “narrative” of mail-in voting being risky and contracted Deloitte to report on the supposed misinformation narrative spawning on social media. In turn, they pressured social media companies to suppress this alleged fake news narrative.
CISA was dishonest. Not only did they know mail-in voting had a risk of fraud, but they kept that from the public and actively censored anyone who pointed out what they internally knew to be factually true.
