Ever since Election Day in this nation, Donald Trump has been digging for every possible angle he can cook up in his Aderrall-fried brain to somehow overturn the results of the people’s voice, after he lost “bigly” to his Democratic opponent, former Vice President turn President-Elect Joe Biden.
Despite multiple lawsuits, court filings, litigations, and tweets, Donald Trump has truly come up empty-handed — he and his team have absolutely no tangible, real proof that anything nefarious took place regarding the 2020 presidential election. However, that’s done nothing to staunch Trump and his people from peddling conspiracies and marching forward with court cases, all the same, even if they’re just outright lying.
On the 11th of November, the Trump team attempted to cite votes cast by two Georgians as an example of voter fraud in the battleground state that Donald ultimately lost to Biden, claiming that the individuals were actually deceased, making the votes illegal. But as it turns out, those individuals are still very much alive, their votes are still very much valid, and Trump is still as pathetic and desperate as ever.
The Trump campaign took to Twitter with the accusation that Covington, Georgia, World War II veteran James Blalock illegally voted in the election because Blalock had passed away fourteen years prior, in January of 2006.
Mr. James Blalock of Covington, Georgia, a World War II veteran, voted in the election.
The only problem? He passed away 14 years ago, in January 2006.
Sadly, Mr. Blalock is a victim of voter fraud. pic.twitter.com/fcynn3fxIh
— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) November 11, 2020
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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson quickly latched onto this narrative, penning an opinion column for the network’s website that read:
Mr. Blalock was a mailman for 33 years until he passed away in 2006. Fourteen years later, according to state records, he was still mailing things. James Blalock cast a ballot in last week’s election.
How did he do that? Maybe he was just one of those extraordinary mail carriers; neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night nor even death itself could keep him from the mail. In his case, maybe voting from the grave wasn’t really fraud, it was just commitment.
It didn’t take long at all for Newton County officials to disavow the claims made by the Trump team as well as the Fox anchor, explaining that Mr. Blalock did not vote in the 2020 election, that it was, in fact, his widow who is registered as “Mrs. James E. Blalock, Jr.” and signed her ballot as such.
“The media reports of a deceased voter casting their ballot in Newton County are inaccurate,” the country wrote in their statement, explaining the situation.
But that’s not the only individual that the Trump campaign got it all wrong about. Both the Trump team and Carlson also brought up Linda Kesler of Nicholson, who they claim also cast an illegal vote, yet died in 2003.
Mrs. Linda Kesler of Nicholson, Georgia voted in the election.
The only problem? She passed away 17 years ago, in 2003.
Sadly, Mrs. Kesler is a victim of voter fraud. pic.twitter.com/QqD4VnjfJX
— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) November 11, 2020
Once again, the Trump team and his cronies in the media couldn’t have been further off the mark. The Jackson County Board of Elections publically clarified that while a woman named Linda Kesler did vote, she is actually an entirely different human being who “has a different address, birthday, and zip who is entitled to vote.”
While Carlson has since issued a public, on-air apology for his egregious claims, it has yet to stop the actual Trump campaign from running with this disgustingly false narrative. On Friday, Donald Trump tweeted, “Georgia Secretary of State, a so-called Republican (RINO), won’t let the people checking the ballots see the signatures for fraud. Why? Without this the whole process is very unfair and close to meaningless. Everyone knows that we won the state. Where is @BrianKempGA?”
Georgia Secretary of State, a so-called Republican (RINO), won’t let the people checking the ballots see the signatures for fraud. Why? Without this the whole process is very unfair and close to meaningless. Everyone knows that we won the state. Where is @BrianKempGA?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2020
For the record, “RINO” is an initialism for “Republican in name only” and Brian Kemp is the Republican governor of the state of Georgia.
There has to come a point where these outright lies have to stop. The election has been called. The president-elect has been named. The 2020 election has gone down in the books as one of the safest and most secure elections of our time. No amount of fake dead people will change that.
Featured image via Flickr/Gage Skidmore, under Creative Commons license 2.0
