Nearly four years ago, Time Magazine admitted that powerful interests participated in a “behind the scenes” “conspiracy” to deprive Trump of a second term. One of the groups mentioned in the article was Issue One, the parent organization of a group behind a 2020 initiative to “neutralize … attempts to question the security of mail ballots.” That group, the National Council on Election Integrity (NCEI), includes a handful of Republicans. Given the fact that mail ballots statistically benefit Democrats and create opportunities for election fraud, why did these Republicans go all-in on mail-in voting?
Four years later, another presidential election looms. Trump, again, is the Republican nominee, and, again, he wants a second term.
What might these people be up to in 2024?
Republicans and Never-Trumpers
The conspirators belonged to “an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans,” that came together to “oppose Trump’s assault on democracy,” Time Magazine’s Molly Ball wrote in the 2021 article. According to Ball, this “well-funded cabal of powerful people” was “not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.”
The 45th president warned many times in 2020 how voting by mail could help rig the election in Biden’s favor, and suggested that mass mail-in-balloting makes voter fraud easier to commit.
But according to Ball, “it was crucial for voters to understand that despite what Trump was saying, mail-in votes weren’t susceptible to fraud and
