{"id":536,"date":"2024-03-17T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2024-03-17T17:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:29:33","slug":"debunked-how-nevada-republicans-botched-voter-fraud-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/blog\/debunked-how-nevada-republicans-botched-voter-fraud-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunked: How Nevada Republicans Botched Voter Fraud Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)<\/em> \u2013 One of the main reasons I launched the Pigpen Project last year was because I recognized how badly the Nevada Republican Party blew it following the 2020 general election with their unsubstantiated cries of \u201cvoting fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nevada GOP \u2013 in tandem with the Trump campaign and other outside actors \u2013 didn\u2019t do their homework and didn\u2019t understand the laws on the books.\u00a0 They cut corners and took shortcuts to claim massive voting fraud without proof or documentation.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the party famously claimed it had \u201cevidence\u201d of 130,000 illegally cast ballots. It actually had none.\u00a0 Which is why they\u2019ve steadfastly refused to release their 130,000 pieces of \u201cevidence\u201d to the press or the public.<\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s not just me pointing out the emperor had no clothes.<\/p>\n

Ken Block has written a new book titled, \u201cDisproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data That Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, the Las Vegas Review-Journal published an op-ed<\/a> by Mr. Block titled, \u201cYes, Trump Lost in Nevada.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Some excerpts\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened to the claim that more than 16,000 duplicate votes were cast in Nevada during the 2020 presidential election? I disproved it. I am the man who was hired right after the election by former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign to look for voter fraud.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe campaign\u2019s lawyers (the careful ones) relied upon me and my team to perform due diligence on fraud claims made by others. I knew right away that the data was bad and that only a few of the 16,000 pairs of votes would be real duplicates.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring our investigation I discovered two problems with the analysis behind the Nevada claim: 1) Whoever did the analysis did not differentiate between duplicate registrations and duplicate votes, and, 2) the analysis did not consider that two people can share the same name and birthdate, an issue that makes 90 percent of this sort of matching wrong. I found only two couples who had cast votes in Nevada and California. Our analysis showed that the claims were false\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd let\u2019s be clear: More than three years post-election, there is no evidence that Nevada\u2019s election officials certified the wrong winner in 2020, even though the margin of victory was more than 33,000 votes.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I showed the campaign\u2019s lawyers why the Nevada claim was false, they reached out to the lawyer who was preparing to file the lawsuit to inform them that the lawsuit should not proceed. At first, the lawyer indicated that the lawsuit would be filed, even after I provided proof that the votes were not duplicated. Only after a written warning that the lawsuit would be based upon false data was the lawsuit abandoned.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, I know many of you don\u2019t want to hear this.\u00a0 But it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Even if you still believe the election was \u201cstolen\u201d from Trump, the bottom line is the people responsible for \u201cproving\u201d it in Nevada failed miserably because they shot first and asked questions later.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve taken a decidedly different approach to cleaning up the voter files through the Pigpen Project.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve conferred with election officials to make sure our work is done according to law and by established procedures.\u00a0 And we never \u201cassume\u201d voting fraud took place without doing the hard work necessary to document and confirm it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why \u2013 unlike so many others involved in \u201celection integrity\u201d work here, including the GOP \u2013 we\u2019ve been successful in identifying and submitting for removal over 2,000 voters from the active voter file in the last few months.<\/p>\n

I think the most damning part of Mr. Block\u2019s op-ed was this: \u201cWhoever did the analysis did not differentiate between duplicate registrations and duplicate votes.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a huge and important distinction.\u00a0 No, voters shouldn\u2019t be registered twice \u2013 once where they currently live and once where they used to live.\u00a0 HOWEVER<\/u>, unless that voter votes twice, they haven\u2019t committed election fraud.<\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s an example of suspected voting fraud we uncovered this week\u2026<\/p>\n

A recent upgrade to the software system we\u2019re using for the Pigpen Project identified a voter who appears to have voted in both the 2022 general election in Nevada and the 2022 general election in Texas.<\/p>\n

Same exact name, same exact address, same exact birthdate.\u00a0 Seems like an open-and-shut case of voting fraud, right?<\/p>\n

Maybe.\u00a0 But by whom?<\/p>\n

Did the voter himself cast two ballots in two different states?\u00a0 Or did the voter, who moved to Texas just before the election, vote legally in-person in Texas while someone obtained his mail-in ballot in Nevada and voted it for him?<\/p>\n

This is why you can\u2019t automatically accuse the voter himself of voting fraud.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Which is why we\u2019ll now be documenting all our research and submitting an official Election Integrity Violation Report<\/a> to the proper authorities for further investigation.<\/p>\n

This is the sort of detailed, hard work the Nevada Republican Party *should* have done in 2020\u2026but didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Thanks to your support of the Pigpen Project \u2013 and the herculean efforts of dozens of \u201cboots on the ground\u201d volunteers every weekend \u2013 the hard work is now being done and you\u2019re helping make a real difference in making it harder to \u201ccheat\u201d in Nevada elections.<\/p>\n

THANK YOU!<\/p>\n

FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWaiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.\u201d \u2013 Seth Godin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pigpen Project is a project of Citizen Outreach Foundation, an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) grassroots organization founded in 1992.\u00a0 Donations are tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth) \u2013 One of the main reasons I launched the Pigpen Project last year was because I recognized how badly the Nevada Republican Party blew it following the 2020 general election with their unsubstantiated cries of \u201cvoting fraud.\u201d The Nevada GOP \u2013 in tandem with the Trump campaign and other outside actors \u2013 didn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}