There is a serious flaw in the logic of "Stop the Steal" protesters. In short, it is not a qualitative problem, but rather a quantitative one.
Let us begin with the obvious facts of the 2020 election. Biden won the Electoral College, but he also won the Popular Vote as well. And it wasn't a close call either. He walked away with a 7 million vote lead once the dust had finally settled.
Again: Biden won by 7 million votes. That is the populational equivalent of the entirety of New York City. It is also ten times the population of the state of Wyoming. In short, it is a massive number of people.
The "Stop the Steal" argument doesn't just need to prove election impropriety; they must prove its existence in such staggering ubiquity as to render the fifth largest blowout in all of American electoral history to have been fraudulent.
And to that end, they have come up woefully short. When asked where the supposed phantom 7 million votes might have come from, they respond with anecdotal evidence: a random idiot voted as Mickey Mouse in Arizona, a couple crates of ballots mysteriously arrived at a polling location in Georgia, and so on and so forth.
None of that even scratches the surface of overturning the 2020 Presidential Election. In fact, to do so would be such a daunting prospect, and the requisite evidence so rigorous, that a wounded Sherpa would have more luck scaling Mount Himalaya.
Again, this is not to say that there was no cheating in our last election. I'm sure there was, just as there has been some minuscule amount of cheating every four years since 1776. But that is not the hurdle that election deniers must overcome. And the truest test of their claims is so prohibitively difficult as to be practically insurmountable.
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