I have gotten a number of posts on my Bluesky account stating that the 2024 election was stolen, and I’ve pretty much ignored them, though I continue to believe that it is quite possible that our future elections may become somewhat like those in Russia, with the outcome predetermined.
But I give this story a bit more credence:
Walter Mebane is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. He is a leading expert on detecting voter fraud, having dedicated much of his career to developing statistical techniques for doing so.
He was asked to do a close analysis of the voting in the Pennsylvania presidential election, and his conclusions are to say the least disturbing:
[Details at the link]
In summary:
There is very high probability that a meaningful number of votes in the PA presidential election were subject to malevolent manipulation — and it was “a close call” whether “the election was decided or nearly decided by malevolent distortions of electors’ intentions.” (Mebane, Page 6)
As the author at Lawyers, Guns and Money points out “EAIAC is the single most powerful explanatory principle of the entire Trump era” (I’ll translate: Every Accusation Is A Confession).
That being the case, one would hope that a Pennsylvania prosecutor might look into this and see if further evidence develops. It’s obviously the case that the DOJ would have no interest in doing so. If we are to save our elections at all it’s going to require vigilance on the part of state authorities, because national Republicans are fine with election thefts, as long as they are the beneficiaries.
I should make it clear that I’m not asserting that there was a theft in Pennsylvania, but assuming Mebane knows what he’s doing, it is worth investigating further.
UPDATE: There appears to be serious questions about the methodology Melbane used in his analysis of the voting records. More here.