Election fraud expert hired by Trump spills the beans

An expert hired by former President Donald Trump to dig up proof of election fraud has debunked the false claims in a recent interview.
Ken Block, a data analyst hired by Trump four years ago to find evidence of voter fraud in Georgia and five other states, only found about a dozen examples of it, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The former president has baselessly claimed that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election despite providing no evidence.
“We have all these unfounded claims of voter fraud,” Block told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview. “There are so many that it’s hard to believe it’s not true. But the reality is, it’s not true.”
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Block reviewed an analysis by the Trump campaign in 2020 that claimed thousands of people in Georgia and another state illegally voted twice. He ultimately debunked that analysis, according to the report.
According to the report, Block found that the Trump analysis “mistakenly assumed that different people with the same name and similar birth dates were the same person.”
“Every single claim they asked me to look at was false,” he said.
He explained that people still believe there is voter fraud because of the messaging pushed out by Trump and promoted by conservative media.
“They don’t provide their listeners any contrary information to that narrative,” he said to the outlet. “I’ve tried to tell my story in conservative media, and nobody will have me.”
His interview comes as Trump lays the groundwork for claiming that the 2024 election will be rigged. In a post to Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump claimed, without evidence, that there is widespread voter fraud occurring in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
“Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before. REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Indeed, as Election Day approaches, Trump is increasingly warning his supporters that he will lose on Nov. 5 only if his political opponents cheat. Such statements have no basis in fact. There was no evidence of significant voter fraud in the 2020 election, which Trump lost, and there is no evidence that Trump’s adversaries can or will rig this election against him either.
Still, Trump’s unfounded warnings make an already tense and violent election season even more fraught. And there are real threats that foreign adversaries — especially Russia, China and Iran — will meddle in the election.
At the same time, the Republican National Committee has invested tens of millions of dollars into an operation to mobilize thousands of polling place monitors, poll workers and attorneys to serve as “election integrity” watchdogs. Democrats are worried that the effort could lead to harassment of election workers and undermine trust in the vote.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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