OPINION:
For the sake of not disenfranchising millions of Americans and not turning into a third-world banana republic, all alleged cases of vote fraud should be taken seriously, investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law where wrongdoing is found (“AG Barr: No evidence of fraud that would change election outcome,” Web, Dec. 1). It should not be casually dismissed, as Attorney General William Barr has done.
As a physicist who teaches probability and statistics (via quantum mechanics), I am shocked by the massive level of apparent fraud that is being uncovered in elections all over the nation. Whether it is “last minute” changes in the voting tally from a foreign-made and foreign-controlled computer network (e.g., adding and detracting the same number of votes between the candidates) that is trivially susceptible to hacking, arbitrary “last minute” and illegal changes to the voting “rules,” absentee ballots coming from out of state and dead “voters” or preventing observers from watching the counting of votes, there are numerous reasons why we need to properly scrutinize and prosecute all of these potentially illegal actions.
If the authorities don’t thoroughly and properly investigate every one of these allegations, American citizens will lose faith in our democracy and our government, and that’s dangerous for our nation. Some of these fraudulent methods have been used for decades. They are nothing new. What is new is the apparently massive and coordinated effort to use them to get rid of Donald Trump. It’s time to stamp this fraud out permanently.
A legal system that does not respect the will of its voters or prosecute the fraud that enables it is nothing more than a fascist tyranny.
MICHAEL PRAVICA
Henderson, Nev.
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