Biden fairly and legally won the 2020 Presidential Election
While Voter.org is impartial we feel ethically obligated to address baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. This page is updated as new facts emerge. As of September 9, 2022, twenty-two months after the election, no evidence has emerged that the 2020 Presidential Election had widespread election fraud that would have changed the result. TWENTY-TWO MONTHS AND COUNTING! And the rhetoric has lead to thousands of threats of violence against election workers and government officials.
The former president and his GOP allies filed 63 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process. They sought to reverse the election results in the key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In each case the Courts rejected the claims, usually due to a lack of evidence.
Out of the 63 lawsuits, 62 went again Donald Trump and his allies. Decisions came from both Democratic-appointed and Republican-appointed judges. Most of the judges were elected state judges in Republican-majority states. That amounts to a 1.5% win rate. The one case where Trump found success didn’t involve an allegation of election fraud and that decision was later overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
In 13 federal cases decided by 12 Trump appointees, none of the courts favorized Donald Trump. The nine member U.S. Supreme Court with six Republican-appointed members including three Trump-appointed justices, rejected challenges to results in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
It’s telling that while Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, these assertions were not made in court where providing false allegations are generally a felony.
In a regularly scheduled meeting on November 12, 2020, officials of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and private sector members of a coordinating council representing state and local elections officials, put out a joint statement calling the 2020 election “the most secure in American history.” It added, in boldface, that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”
Soon after that statement, Christopher Krebs, director of the several top national security officials, and two Homeland Security officials, including one from CISA, were removed from their posts by the Trump Administration.
Attorney General William P. Barr, a Donald Trump appointee, said on December 1, 2020 that FBI agents and U.S. attorneys investigated complaints, but “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” As of September 13, 2022 Barr holds that same position.
In Arizona, Biden’s victory in Maricopa County – the state’s most populous county – was confirmed by a hand recount and multiple post-election tests for accuracy.
In Wisconsin, Dane County and Milwaukee County, the two largest counties held two recounts of presidential ballots. Both recounts confirmed that Biden had defeated Trump by more than 20,000 votes.
Georgia conducted three different recounts of ballots of the presidential election, all of which confirmed Biden as the winner. Both Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger are Republicans who supported Donald Trump in the election.
Pennsylvania conducted an audit of the November 2020 election. In addition, all counties audited a sample of their votes as mandated by law. Neither audit turned up widespread fraud to put in question Donald Trump’s 81,000 vote loss to Joe Biden in the state.
Michigan conducted its most comprehensive series of post-election audits in state history. More than 1,300 clerks conducted over 250 audits across the state. It confirmed the results that Biden won Michigan by nearly 155,000 votes.
The January 6 Committee played a series of video testimony on July 12, 2022 from some of Trump’s closest political and legal advisers. They were virtually unanimous in saying claims of massive fraud were bogus. Some told Donald Trump yet instead of listening to his White House and campaign aides, advisers said Donald Trump sided with a “definitely intoxicated” Rudy Giuliani to launch a movement that culminated in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.