After former President Donald Trump won the election in a landslide, President Joe Biden claimed election integrity is an issue of the past. Election integrity advocates beg to differ.
“I hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electorate system. It is honest, it is fair and it is transparent. And it can be trusted, win or lose,” Biden said on Nov. 7 according to The Hill.
Legacy media outlets have been pushing a similar message. The New York Times claimed yesterday that “After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent” (“election deniers” is the press’s propaganda term for election integrity advocates).
But that is false. Integrity advocates took immediate action to address issues when they rose on election night, keeping them from developing into a bigger problem. Trump’s massive turnout truly did make this election “too big to rig,” but that does not mean it was free from bad actors trying to rig it.
Election Night
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, officials found broken security seals on multiple tabulators before polls closed, causing officials to recount 31,000 ballots, as The Federalist previously reported. The issue affected 13 tabulators. A Republican poll observer told The Federalist at the time that officials were using “stalling tactics,” adding that “it appears that they are trying to figure out what they need to win.”
But the issue gained attention, and, at the very least, drew oversight from election integrity advocates. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson went to
