It's been more than a month since the November 8 election, and liberals are still struggling to find a way to make Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton the winner of this year's presidential contest.
One of those advocating the (s)election of the former secretary of state is Alan Gilbert -- the John Evans Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in the University of Denver – who declared on Sunday: “In any other country, the U.S. State Department would declare the presidential election results a hoax: Clinton won initial exit polls -- usually dead accurate -- in four swing states.”
Gilbert's article appeared on the Daily Beast website under the title: “How Do We Know Our Elections Are Fair?” in which he attempted to catapult Clinton into the White House by casting doubts on every recent presidential election.
The professor listed six reasons why Republican Donald Trump should not become the resident of the White House.
First, “Paper Ballots and Audits Should Be Routine,” he stated:
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, has done a public service in demanding that the votes be audited in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. It is important to know that the vote each of us casts is counted fairly.
In Wisconsin, Donald Trump's narrow margin over Hillary Clinton was 0.7 percent, in Pennsylvania 1.2 percent, and in Michigan 0.2 percent.
Gilbert then indicated that “Trump won by 10,708 votes out of 4,799,284. Further, 80,000 submitted ballots with no mark for president, which, at minimum, should be checked by the human eye.”
“Note that in swing states with narrow margins, one would not have to falsify a wide part of the election. Altering the vote in one or two main counties would, very likely, do,” he continued.
“Moreover, Trump was defeated in the actual voting by a startling -- and still growing -- 2,676,670 votes. As of December 6, Clinton had won 65,534,951 votes nationwide, Trump 62,858,281,” he stated, “thus handing Trump the largest defeat suffered by a candidate elevated to the presidency by the Electoral College in modern history.”
“Initial Exit Polls Are Used by the U.S. State Department to Test Electoral Fairness in Other Countries,” Gilbert said as his second reason.
There is “a far more damning point about Trump’s victory by U.S. State Department and international standards, which has been suppressed by the corporate media (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, AP and CNN),” the professor absurdly asserted.
Further, since 2000, “the U.S. State Department has used initial exit polling to test the fairness of elections in 14 'transitional' democracies, and challenged what happened in five of them,” Gilbert indicated. “Where this procedure is used, there is no controversy. If the election is very close, the ballots can easily be recounted.”
“Clinton’s Initial Exit Poll Margins” served as the professor's third point.
“In states where paper ballots are used, Trump's lead hovered at about four percent” in tight races, he stated. “But on machine-recorded results,” the GOP candidate's victory margin “was much higher,” often listed as being well beyond the margin of error in those polls.
“About half the states have no laws that require manual examination of paper ballots, and most other states perform only superficial spot checks,” the professor added. “If nobody looks at the paper, it might as well not be there. A clever attacker would exploit this.”
In fourth place is “The Edison Company’s Reliability on Initial Exit Polling and Doctoring of American Results,” which he claimed is a rare occurrence.
Gilbert added:
Edison has run 11,000 exit polls in 38 countries since Warren Mitofsky developed them in 1967. In other countries, Edison conducts only initial exit polls. Solely in the United States, however, Edison immediately doctors these results to match machine-recorded results.
But touchscreen machines leave no paper trail at all, and though better, optical scan machines, which take separate photos of how individuals voted, can have “the security” turned off.
“Talk About a Tall Story” is the professor's fifth point.
“If exit polls got Trump’s margins of victory right in the Republican primaries, how come these same polls conducted by the same methods by the same Edison Corporation got Trump’s margin decidedly wrong in five states that decided the presidential election?” he asked.
Sixth in Gilbert's list was “How Trump Out-foxed the Democrats.”
Because of what the professor called “the anti-democratic Electoral College,” presidential campaigns are waged in a dozen or so “battleground states.”
“The fundamental issue is not only whether American election results have been reversed to declare the wrong winner,” Gilbert asserted. “The issue is whether, aside from initial exit polls, citizens have any way of judging whether our elections are fair.”
In other words, if only Hillary Clinton had won the election, it would be obvious that the vote count was handled fairly.
