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lon Musk’s Twitter Truth Squad is exposing the FBI’s role in suppressing free speech before the 2020 election. But the FBI was practically a bit player in a far greater federal conspiracy to censor any American who cast doubts on the mail-in ballots that made Joe Biden the 46th president.
That conniving doesn’t mean the 2020 election was stolen. But the bureaucratic racketeering was a travesty of political fair play.
The FBI pressured Twitter to target an Oct. 26, 2020, tweet from a former Republican official who wrote that “between 2% and 25% of Ballots by Mail are Being Rejected for Errors,” journalist Matt Taibbi revealed.
But that tweet was more accurate than the “New Truths” federal overseers imposed. When New York City relied on mail-in ballots for a June 2020 primary, up to 20% of ballots were declared invalid. The Daily News labeled the primary snafus a “ dumpster fire .”
In Wisconsin, more than 20,000 “primary ballots were thrown out because voters missed at least one line on the form, rendering them invalid,” McClatchy reported. In Virginia, officials rejected almost 6% of mail-in ballots for primary elections for arriving late. In Nevada, almost a quarter-million ballots sent to voters were returned as undeliverable.
