{"id":17832,"date":"2022-12-12T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T03:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17832"},"modified":"2022-12-12T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T03:50:14","slug":"new-york-post-federal-censors-made-2020-mail-in-ballots-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/12\/new-york-post-federal-censors-made-2020-mail-in-ballots-sacred\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: Federal Censors Made 2020 Mail-in Ballots Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>New York Post, December 13, 2022<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"headline headline--single\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/12\/twitter-files-reveal-how-federal-censors-made-mail-in-ballots-sacred-boosting-biden\/\">Twitter Files reveal how federal censors made mail-in ballots sacred \u2014 boosting Biden<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-header__meta\" aria-label=\"Byline\">\n<div class=\"byline meta meta--byline\">By <a class=\"meta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/12\/twitter-files-reveal-how-federal-censors-made-mail-in-ballots-sacred-boosting-biden\/#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"flyout-james-bovard\">James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter Truth Squad is exposing the FBI\u2019s role in suppressing free speech before the 2020 election. But the FBI was practically a bit player in a far greater federal conspiracy to censor any American who cast doubts on the mail-in ballots that made Joe Biden the 46th president.<\/p>\n<p>That conniving doesn\u2019t mean the 2020 election was stolen<strong>. But the bureaucratic racketeering was a travesty of political fair play<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI pressured <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1601367426129543169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter to target<\/a> an Oct. 26, 2020, tweet from a former Republican official who wrote that \u201cbetween 2% and 25% of Ballots by Mail are Being Rejected for Errors,\u201d journalist Matt Taibbi revealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But that tweet was more accurate than the \u201cNew Truths\u201d federal overseers imposed<\/strong>. When New York City relied on mail-in ballots for a June 2020 primary, up to 20% of ballots were declared invalid. The Daily News labeled the primary snafus a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/ny-edit-ballots-20200721-h5ydufbynrabldsxr6kgcfr6oy-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dumpster fire<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Wisconsin, more than 20,000 \u201cprimary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/coronavirus-and-mail-in-voting-will-mean-an-accelerated-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ballots were thrown out<\/a> because voters missed at least one line on the form, rendering them invalid,\u201d McClatchy reported. In Virginia, officials rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/13\/889751095\/signed-sealed-undelivered-thousands-of-mail-in-ballots-rejected-for-tardiness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">almost 6% of mail-in ballots<\/a> for primary elections for arriving late. In Nevada, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/politics-and-government\/clark-county\/more-than-223k-mailed-ballots-returned-undelivered-in-primary-2095001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">almost a quarter-million ballots<\/a> sent to voters were returned as undeliverable.<\/p>\n<p>Such problems were no surprise. A decade ago, a New York Times analysis concluded that \u201cfraud in voting by mail is . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/07\/us\/politics\/as-more-vote-by-mail-faulty-ballots-could-impact-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vastly more prevalent<\/a> than the in-person voting fraud that has attracted far more attention.\u201d Similarly, the 2005\u00a0Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter, warned, \u201cAbsentee ballots remain the largest source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/07\/us\/politics\/as-more-vote-by-mail-faulty-ballots-could-impact-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">of potential voter fraud<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet by Election Day 2020, mail-in ballots had become immaculate<\/strong>. This Orwellian triumph was due in part to \u201ccensorship by proxy,\u201d as law professor Jonathan Turley put it.<\/p>\n<p>The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, created in 2018 as part of the Department of Homeland Security, gave grants to several private entities that formed the Election Integrity Project in mid-2020. That project, working closely with the feds, classified 22 million tweets as misinformation and affected \u201chundreds of millions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks and tweets,\u201d thanks to what it bragged of as \u201chuge regulatory pressure\u201d from government, per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationforfreedomonline.com\/report\/11-9-22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Foundation for Freedom Online<\/a> report last month.<\/p>\n<p>Almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2021\/06\/30\/behind-bidens-2020-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-thirds of Biden\u2019s votes<\/a> came from absentee or mail-in ballots, and he won owing to 43,000 votes in three swing states. Democrats exploited the COVID pandemic to push through electoral changes that opened the floodgates to unverified mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/foundationforfreedomonline.com\/11-9-22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censorship focus<\/a> was always and consistently foremost targeted at speech casting doubt on mail-in ballots,\u201d FFO reported. That targeted effort devastated \u201cthe ability of concerned citizens to pressure their state representatives to take legal action on changing voting procedures\u201d to prevent fraud. Some states like Michigan sent absentee ballots to all voters, violating the Constitution\u2019s election clause (which specifies that state legislatures make the rules for federal elections).<\/p>\n<p>Rather than the traditional scrutiny for mail-in ballots (and a ballot reject rate up to 20%), many locales defaulted to validating practically any piece of paper with a mark as a bona fide ballot. A month after the election,<strong> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/strong> complained in a brief to the Supreme Court about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/admin\/2020\/Press\/SCOTUSFiling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cunconstitutional relaxation<\/a>\u00a0of ballot-integrity protections in [Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania] election laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US Civil Rights Commissioner <strong>Christian Adams<\/strong> noted that \u201cDemocrats succeeded in tossing out state laws related to <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/jchristianadams\/2020\/12\/02\/the-real-kraken-what-really-happened-to-donald-trump-in-the-2020-election-n1185494\/amp?__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">absentee-ballot<\/a> verification, deadlines and a whole range of laws all in the name of COVID. By and large, GOP efforts in court failed. It was a courtroom bloodbath that created vulnerabilities across the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal agencies and grantees intervened with social media to suppress \u201cany speech that \u2018casts doubt\u2019 on any kind of election process, outcome or integrity issues,\u201d which \u201cmade all conservative and populist criticism of the administration of the election pre-banned . . . five months in advance of Election Day,\u201d FFO reported. <strong>Stifling controversies made it much easier for Democrats and their media allies to sanctify Biden\u2019s victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None of this proves the 2020 election was stolen, and Trump and his \u201cGreat Kraken\u201d team made plenty of wild claims after the election. But <strong>congressional and other investigators must expose all the federal efforts to squelch free speech in 2020. Full disclosure of past abuses is the best way to avoid unreliable voting procedures and to prevent Washington from tainting the 2024 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, December 13, 2022 Twitter Files reveal how federal censors made mail-in ballots sacred \u2014 boosting Biden By James Bovard Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter Truth Squad is exposing the FBI\u2019s role in suppressing free speech before the 2020 election. 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