High-profile voter fraud prosecutions pile up as election integrity debate rages on | Just The News https://t.co/krYyWukkUy

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) June 14, 2022

To save you from indirectly contributing to disgraced former Hill columnist John Solomon’s bullshit website by clicking on his tweet viewing the ads in his lame article (provided you don’t use an ad blocker), here are the “high-profile voter fraud prosecutions” he lists:

1. Some Republican town councilwoman in Upstate New York pleaded guilty to submitting forged absentee ballots in her own election in 2021. Local election in an off year, nothing to do with 2020.

2. Convicted felon ex-Pennsylvania Dem Congressman Ozzie Myers, who was expelled from the House in fucking 1980, pleaded guilty to a bribery scam in Philadelphia Dem primaries between 2014 and 2018 where he paid off a ward election judge to tamper with voting machines to pad totals for Myers’ preferred candidates. This is about as “high-profile” as Solomon’s examples get and speaks to Philly’s grimy local elections culture that Trump and his fanboys decried, but again, they can’t actually explain how it’s supposed to prove 2020 was somehow stolen from him.

3. A Dem in Arizona pleaded guilty to “ballot harvesting”, a felony in the state, during the August 2020 primary elections. Solomon writes “early ballots were collected from voters and dropped off at a ballot box on primary election day” but does not offer any evidence they were otherwise tampered with or what the scheme’s purpose was other than just make sure votes were counted.

4. A city councilman in Compton, California was charged with rigging votes in his 2021 election, which he won by a single vote – later overturned when four voters were found to be living outside of the district. Trump lost California by 5.1 million votes in 2020.

5. Solomon uses that badly over-milked Paterson, New Jersey scam from two years ago that was only “high-profile” because Trump seized upon it during his panic over mail-in ballots that year.

6. The last case Solomon highlights is that one jerkoff USPS employee in West Virginia who changed five voter registration forms from Democrat to Republican in 2020. Not sure how that helps the “Dems cheat in elections” narrative when the crime was pretty obviously something that was supposed to benefit Republicans. Also happened months before the 2020 election.

The other problem with this article is that they’re technically all cases of “election fraud” as opposed to “voter fraud”, meaning they were instances of tampering committed by persons tasked in some way with the administration of elections with the goal of altering the outcome, even if some of the cases involved individual acts of voter fraud. The line is a little blurry, but it is generally understood that voter fraud is like falsely voting with some else’s ballot or mailing in an absentee ballot in two different states. Or voting for your dead mother. There are plenty of examples of Trump fans doing those sort of things in 2020. At least a dozen, by our count. But they’re not convenient to the right wing narrative that only Dems cheat in elections.