Election workers protected vote integrity; there was no fraud

Sometimes it’s a good idea to drill down to the basics. In our recent election, who were the culprits guilty of this massive fraud, the theft of votes that should have gone, over-overwhelmingly to him, as stated by President Trump.

Democrats, he said, and prominent names spring to mind: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Democratic state governors, etc.

But we need to get to the basics. Who, physically, handled the millions of ballets cast: mail-in, machine with paper back-up, in person? Who saw the marks indicating the voter’s choices? Who did tedious, repetitive work of counting and verifying (and verifying again) while risking being exposed to the covid virus?

Thousands of our relatives, friends and neighbors, Democrat, Republican, non-affiliated. Thousands of nameless citizens dedicated to delivering a fair and accurate count, the bedrock of our Democracy.

These patriots somehow managed to perpetrate a massive fraud of historic proportions?

I suspect that Donald Trump and his minions never stopped to ask themselves this basic question. Or consider the insult.

We may never know all their names but we owe them our heart-felt gratitude.

Thank you from the bottom of mine.

Linda Punches

Everett

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