Trump’s hired voter fraud expert reveals details

An expert hired by former President Donald Trump to find evidence of voter fraud debunked these false claims in a recent interview.

According to Ken Block, a data analyst hired by Trump four years ago to find evidence of voter fraud in Georgia and five other states, only a dozen such examples have been found. Atlanta Journal Constitution. The former president baselessly claimed there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, even though he provided no evidence.

“We have all these baseless claims of voter fraud,” Block told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “There are so many of them that it’s hard to believe it’s not true. But the reality is that it’s not true.”

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Block reviewed a 2020 Trump campaign analysis that found thousands of people in Georgia and another state voted illegally twice. He ultimately refuted that analysis, according to the report.

According to the report, Block said Trump’s analysis “wrongly assumed that different people with the same surname and similar dates of birth were the same person.”

“Every claim I was asked to make was false,” he said.

He explained that people still believe there is voter fraud due to messages spread by Trump and promoted by conservative media.

“They do not provide their listeners with any information that is contrary to this narrative,” he told the outlet. “I tried to tell my story in conservative media and no one wanted me.”

His interview comes as Trump lays the groundwork for claims that the 2024 election will be stolen. In a Wednesday post for Truth Social, Trump claimed this without evidence there is widespread electoral fraud took place in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

“Pennsylvania is cheating and getting caught on a scale rarely seen before. REPORT FRAUD TO AUTHORITIES. Law enforcement must act NOW!” he continued writing Social truth.

Indeed, as Election Day approaches, Trump has increasingly warned his supporters that he will only lose on November 5 if his political opponents cheat. Such claims have no basis in reality. There was no evidence of significant voter fraud in the 2020 election, which Trump lost, and no evidence that Trump’s opponents could or would rig the election against him.

Still, Trump’s baseless warnings are making an already tense and violent election season even more tense. And they are real threats from foreign adversaries — especially Russia, China, and Iran — will interfere in the election.

Simultaneously, The Republican National Committee invested tens of millions of dollars in an operation to mobilize thousands of polling station observers, election workers and lawyers to serve as guardians of “election integrity.” Democrats fear the efforts could lead to harassment of election workers and undermine confidence in voting.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.