Ken Block, founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, determined that more than a dozen voter fraud theories related to the 2020 presidential election were false, according to a recent interview.
“No substantive voter fraud was uncovered in my investigations looking for it, nor was I able to confirm any of the outside claims of voter fraud that I was asked to look at,” he told The Washington Post. “Every fraud claim I was asked to investigate was false.”
Simpatico Software Systems was commissioned by former President Donald Trump’s campaign to research election fraud theories. Last month, the outlet reported that another firm paid by Trump’s team, Berkeley Research Group, undercut Trump’s election fraud claims.
Trump has been making voter fraud claims since the election, which he lost to current President Joe Biden. These claims were a talking point in his “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington D.C. on the same day that rioters stormed the Capitol while electoral votes were being counted.
Per The New York Times, federal prosecutors are investigating Trump’s “efforts to overturn the 2020 election,” and they have been “drilling down on whether Mr. Trump and a range of political aides knew that he had lost the race but still raised money off claims that they were fighting widespread fraud in the vote results, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
In September, The New York Times published a review that found election fraud incidents are “blue moon” events.
Another Times report from September 2021 indicated that Trump’s team knew the voter fraud and election fraud claims were not true even as they pushed them. This year, it was revealed that Fox News hosts – including the recently ousted Tucker Carlson – also had doubts about the claims even as they reported on them.
According to The New York Times, special counsel Jack Smith and prosecutors are “trying to determine whether Mr. Trump and his aides violated federal wire fraud statutes as they raised as much as $250 million through a political action committee by saying they needed the money to fight to reverse election fraud even though they had been told repeatedly that there was no evidence to back up those fraud claims.”
Trump announced in November that he is running for a second term as president, despite ongoing legal troubles in addition to the election fraud claims investigation, including his recent indictment. As of this week, polls showed that he was still the GOP front runner for the 2024 race and this month, he appeared to endorse mail-in voting, though he formerly criticized it as an election fraud risk.
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