{"id":1723,"date":"2020-11-08T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2020-11-08T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:15:01","slug":"only-investigation-will-restore-americas-trust-in-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/only-investigation-will-restore-americas-trust-in-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Investigation Will Restore America’s Trust in Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

There may not yet be proof of widespread voter fraud, but there are mountains of evidence for it.\u00a0 And that evidence demands an open investigation, not the thoughtless dismissal that the Left and it’s media and Silicon Valley allies would prefer.<\/p>\n

From my latest at The Federalist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If proof is a body of evidence that meets a certain standard, exactly which standard do we apply? This question has different answers in different contexts. In a court of law, the standard for proving a case is \u201cpreponderance of evidence\u201d in civil cases and \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt\u201d in criminal cases. Scientific journals will have another standard while philosophers have still another. But exactly what standard of proof should American voters demand?<\/p>\n

The left wants big media and big tech to be our\u00a0de facto\u00a0<\/em>standard of proof. That\u2019s certainly what The New York Times\u00a0was proclaiming them to be<\/a>\u00a0on election day before they deleted their tweet.<\/p>\n

The problem is that everyone already knows his own standards of proof operate on a sliding scale. Big media wasn\u2019t terribly particular about their standards on Russian collusion, Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s past, or even smirking teenagers. Neither was big tech very interested in\u00a0regulating the spread of such dubious narratives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even now, the only thing about the election they want to investigate is whether\u00a0they can blame Qanon for their faulty polls<\/a>. Their business has become their politics, plain and simple. They\u2019ve been carrying water for the left for far too long for any freethinker to consider them objective, fair, or even professional.<\/p>\n

America doesn\u2019t play that game anymore. The Boomers\u2019 world in which nothing was true until you heard it on the six o\u2019clock news is now nostalgia. Today, we get our news from a wide assortment of selected individuals and organizations that we\u2019ve individually come to trust based on our own experience.<\/p>\n

But since experience is so subjective, everyone\u2019s selections vary significantly.\u00a0Accordingly, there\u2019s no real unity to be found there either. As a result, while new media has proven fantastic at accumulating and promulgating evidence, they\u2019re ill-suited to offering broad proof because they do not have any kind of common standard.<\/p>\n

The upshot is this:\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0CNN<\/a>,\u00a0Google<\/a>, and the like can project and declare whatever winner they want, but they don\u2019t get to choose the president. That\u2019s never going to serve as proof to most Americans today. Big media and bit tech have been too exposed to get away with doing that anymore.<\/p>\n

That is why this issue needs to go to the courts to be decided. They are some of the last remaining institutions to which all Americans can\u2014in principle, at least\u2014be held accountable.<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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