By Becky Gillette – Election recounts requested by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein have been blocked in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and Trump has been declared winner in the recount in Wisconsin. At the same time, evidence continues to mount that election interference, voter suppression and election fraud gave Donald Trump a winning majority of Electoral College votes with narrow wins in key battleground states despite losing the popular vote by 2.7 million, said local election integrity activist Forrest Jacobi.
“No other president has ever been elected while losing by 2.7 million votes,” Jacobi said. “Trump is a minority president not supported by the majority of the American public. Bernie Sanders’ positions were all supported by a majority of the American public. Donald Trump’s were not. The false equivalency was that Bernie Sanders was the same as Donald Trump – they were both whackadoodles – but Bernie was supported by public opinion and Trump was not.”
Jacobi said evidence has clearly demonstrated that it is relatively easy to hack voting machines or vote counting scanners. When the results of voting vary beyond the margin of error from exit polls, Jacobi said it usually points to election fraud.
“Out of five battleground states, the reported election results only aligned with the exit polls in one state, and that state went to the Democrats,” Jacobi said. “All the others that were supposed to go to Hillary based on the exit polls went to Trump by one percent. Those were Florida, Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The four states with Republican governors all went against the exit polls and gave Trump a victory by one percent. The difference between the election results and the exit polls were all outside the margin of error.”
Even if there had been a recount in Michigan, Jacobi said it might not have uncovered suspected election fraud. He considers it beyond belief that it was just an accident that 87 optical scan readers in Detroit, Mich., “broke” Election Day – a fact that is getting little attention in the national media.
“How can you get an accurate recount if the vote counting machines were broken?” he asks. “This is in an area that traditionally would be a huge Hillary stronghold. Additionally, there were 80,000 paper ballots in Michigan that had no presidential candidate selected. Many people only go to vote for president. Can you imagine 80,000 people showing up to vote for president and didn’t vote for president? And the margin for Trump was only about 10,000 votes. Clearly something is wrong here.”
Jacobi also pointed to a recent report by Bill Palmer of the Palmer Report, that said, “The mere fact that 59 percent of the vote counting machines in Michigan’s biggest city all broke on the same day is standing out as a stunning development. It calls into question why officials failed to publicly disclose this information until they needed it for their convoluted argument against recounting the majority of Detroit’s votes. With Detroit being 82 percent African-American and thus demographically likely to have heavily favored Hillary Clinton, it directly calls into question whether Donald Trump won Michigan.”
Palmer also has presented evidence disputing Trump’s win in Florida.
“Of the numerous reasons why most observers on both sides expected Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election heading into Election Day, perhaps the most glaring was the fact that she had seemingly already won the state of Florida based on early-voting alone,” Palmer said. “It’s why it came as such a shock when Donald Trump somehow pulled off the upset in the state by one percent of the vote, a difference which would have swung the entire election. But in yet another piece of evidence that the voting tallies may have been rigged, a closer examination of the early-voting numbers suggests that Trump’s victory in Florida wasn’t just unlikely – it was mathematically insurmountable.”
Palmer, who covered the recent election cycle for the Daily News Bin, said that Trump’s impossible win in Florida was just one of numerous mathematical unlikelihoods around the nation that he has documented thus far.
There are also problems with voter suppression, which Jacobi said is on the rise since the limiting of the 1965 Voting Right Act by the U.S. Supreme Court. Voting precincts have been closed in minority areas making people travel farther if they want to vote, waiting to vote is often much longer in minority areas than white areas, strict voter identification laws have been passed targeting minority voters, and early voting has been restricted.