Do You Trust Election Results

Election epistemology

Ultimately, the voter is in the same position with the security of the 2020 election as with Chinese biolab security: either we take an opaque and unaccountable institution’s word that nothing untoward could possibly have happened, or we don’t.

We know that this institution can do a very impressive job of investigating itself. We see that in 2015 and 2019, it did not think it was very secure. But in 2020 it decided it was very secure indeed! Perhaps it improved. Stranger things have happened.

Yet when we ask to look into the matter—it gives us the finger. Then pulls out its club. What other message should we receive? Why else would we go straight to ad baculum, with barely even a cursory stop at ad verecundiam?

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