Chase also argues that if the 2020 election were fair, then elections officials wouldn’t have a problem with auditing it. Washington already conducts post-election audits.
This is where discussions of the 2020 election move past a good-faith debate and start to become dangerous, said Alex Friedfeld, investigative researcher for the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. There’s been no evidence that widespread election fraud stole the election from Trump. If lawmakers like Chase were genuinely looking for answers, the conspiracy would have ended years ago, Friedfeld said. Instead, election denialism has gripped Republicans across the country for what Friedfeld fears is a more troubling reason.
“They’re building a machine that’s telling
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