A voter data expert hired by the Trump campaign after the November 2020 presidential election is debunking the former president’s claims of widespread election fraud.
Ken Block, the owner of Simpatico Software Systems, wrote in an op-ed published by USA Today that his company was hired the day after the election to analyze fraud in key swing states and “deliver evidence of voter fraud that could be defended in a court of law.”
“The small amount of voter fraud I found was bipartisan, with about as many Republicans casting duplicate votes as Democrats,” Block wrote. “There were also small numbers of deceased voters. Still, nothing emerged that could provide a solid basis for a legal challenge to an election result in any of the states we evaluated.”
Block wrote that his firm’s findings were communicated directly to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. He also said his findings are detailed in depositions taken by the House Jan. 6 select committee. Transcripts of his depositions before the committee “show that the campaign found no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of any election.”
His findings were also subpoenaed by Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis who are investigating Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the election at the federal and state level respectively.
“Those emails and documents show that the voter data available to the campaign contained no evidence of large-scale voter fraud based on data mining and fraud analytics,” Block wrote.
“And yet, the cries that the election was lost or stolen due to voter fraud continue with no sign of stopping,” he added. “Whether a stump speech, outrageous lawsuits like the so-called Kraken cases filed by Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani’s lies or the ongoing misguided efforts of people determined to prove the election was stolen, the constant drumbeat hardens people’s hearts and minds to the truth about the 2020 election.”
Block’s op-ed comes as Trump continues to dominate the GOP primary field despite promoting debunked claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“What these claims don’t take into account is that voter fraud is detectable, quantifiable and verifiable,” Block wrote. “I have yet to see anyone offer up “evidence” of voter fraud from the 2020 election that provides these three things.”
He argued that a better use of money would be to “address systemic weaknesses in our election systems – such as the distressing lack of national election infrastructure to enforce election integrity, destructive practices to our elections such as gerrymandering, and leveling the playing field so that our elections become fairer and more competitive.”
“If voter fraud had impacted the 2020 election, it would already have been proven,” Block added. “Maintaining the lies undermines faith in the foundation of our democracy.’
