They recently received a document apparently created by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of the main voices. always pushing the Big Lie, which claimed widespread fraud in the state in the 2020 election.
The document, which was titled âThe Big Lie,â because of course, claimed that there had been vote manipulation in Idaho in 2020. âThis document alleged electronic manipulation in all 44 counties. 7 counties in Idaho do not have electronic steps in their vote counting processes, âsaid Deputy Chief Secretary of State Chad Houck.â It was a huge red flag, and we knew that we could prove or disprove fairly directly. “
Wanting to get to the bottom of the allegations, the Secretary of State’s office sent two employees to examine the allegations of manipulation in two of the state’s smallest counties in terms of population: Camas and Butte. In Butte, Joe Biden’s vote count remained exactly the same while Donald Trump’s dropped by 9. (The “Big Lie” documents indicated that Biden received only 130 votes in the county.) In Carnas? Biden’s vote tally was exactly the same as previously reported while Trump got just one vote – from 507 to 508.
In short: they found nothing. Human error in ballot counting at best – and a long way from claims by Lindell, Trump and others that there had been widespread fraud and vote manipulation in the 2020 election.
What’s all the more remarkable about Lindell’s debunked claims is that Trump won Idaho by 31 points in 2020 – one of its biggest margins in the country. Which makes asserting that there had been widespread manipulation of voters in the state all the more bizarre. Cheaters spent time cheating in a Biden state lost by 31 points? Like, how dumb must they be?!?!?
Recall: Merrill and Denny, the Secretary of State for Idaho, are both Republicans. And, in the Idaho case, the Secretary of State took Lindell’s request very seriously, sending state employees to investigate the alleged fraud.
None of them found anything. Because there is nothing to find.
This lack of evidence will not stop Trump, Lindell and the Big Lie. But it should.