Commentary
First, there was no fraud. Then there was no “widespread” fraud. Then, there was no widespread fraud “sufficient to overturn the election.”
The goalposts keep moving, but one thing has remained indisputable from the beginning: The 2020 election was conducted and administered in a lawless fashion.
Unfortunately, there’s a pervasive lack of understanding around the process of conducting elections and certifying election results, and the media are quick to exploit this to advance their partisan narrative and ideological agenda.
It starts innocuously enough, with the competition-driven desire to be the first to report the results of elections. Over time, the American people have been conditioned to expect that they just need to stay up a little later than normal to find out who their next president will be every four years. To facilitate this, newsrooms rely on unofficial election results combined with complicated algorithms to fill in the blanks….