In addition to being a homophobe and a Vladimir Putin stan, Scott Lively is also a Trump dead-ender who believes the conspiracy theories about election fraud. He pushed the bogus narrative again in his May 8 WorldNetDaily column:
A few days ago, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gave a brilliant short talk at the Heritage Foundation explaining how the Democrats pulled off the election coup of 2020/21 and why the most insidious element of it can’t technically be proven. In appreciation for his courage and to help that video get more attention, I am dusting off and refreshing an article I first published two weeks after the (literally unbelievable) “Biden landslide.” Sarcasm alert, here goes:
Election fraud is the art of stealing or trying to steal an election by cheating.
When it is done by an individual it is called voter fraud. When it is done by a group of extremely powerful people conspiring together to take down Donald Trump it is called “the most secure election in U.S. history.”
Conspiracies are usually very difficult to prove because the people doing them work super hard to hide the evidence so they don’t get caught. The best way to get away with it is to do it in places where all the people who could expose or punish you, such as the police, judges, news reporters, election officials, etc., are your friends. Groups of friends with expertise in election fraud all networking together are called “Defenders of Our Democracy.”
Democrats really, really like having those kinds of friends, so the places that have the most election “intervention” are cities which have the most Democrats in power.
Lively then listed the ways he thinks elections are stolen: voting lists that are not continually purged (though overagressive purging tends to remove eligible voters as well as dead ones), mail-in voting (which doesn’t actually increase election fraud no matter what Lively wants you to think), and electronic voting. Regarding the latter, Lively claimed without evidence that one can “stop the vote counting in the middle of the election night and change the software to help your guy catch up – AFTER everyone saw that the other guy won.” He concluded:
But, that won’t really matter much in the long run so long as you get that election “certified” by Congress with the help of strategically placed co-conspirators. It might cost you a few pence you didn’t expect to spend, but once you’ve firmly taken dominion over the seats of power there will be lots more ethically flexible people who will want to be your friends. And eventually you’ll be SO strong that no one can stop you even if they know exactly how you’re cheating.
So, that’s how it works. Happy voting!
Nope, that’s not how it works at all. But then, Lively isn’t being paid to tell the truth.