[Graphic: National Archive and Records Administration]

By Rowan Wolf

Trump’s megaphone allegations about voter fraud, voting by immigrants, and Democratic “cheating’ lead you astray. There is no there there. The percentage of immigrants who voted illegally from 2000 forward was 30 about of almost a billion ballots. Even the Heritage Foundation database only had 85 ALLEGATIONS (not proven cases) of this type of fraud. The Trump campaign is filing dozens of voting challenges NOW to prepare foundations for cases they plan to challenge the vote after tomorrow.

The voting system in this country is secure – unless we allow efforts to overturn people’s vote, as with carte blanche voter purges, vote suppression, and the whole scale throwing out of outcomes as is the effort in Georgia.

NPR did an excellent report on many of these issues and I recommend listening to it and remembering it in the boost election miasma of disinformation.

Rowan Wolf, PhD

I am a sociologist, writer and activist with life long engagement in social justice, peace, environmental, and animal rights movements. My research and writing include issues of imperialism, oppression, global capitalism, peak resources, global warming, and environmental degradation. I taught sociology for twenty-two years, was a member of the City of Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force, and maintain my own site Uncommon Thought Journal. I may be reached by email at [email protected]. On a personal note, I am also a survivor of pulmonary hypertension by the gift of a donor’s lungs in 2011. I do my best to honor that gift by trying to be my best self and give to the world what small gifts I have. Among those is a deep passion for life, and the lives of all those with whom I share the planet.