IN 1845, the US Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought ‘to establish a uniform time’ for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – to qualify for absentee ballots.

But covid served as a pretext to overturn that tradition. Just 25 per cent of votes in 2020 occurred at the polls on Election Day. Mail-in voting more than doubled. Key swing states eliminated the need to provide a valid reason to cast absentee ballots. The virus and ‘racial justice’ became justifications to disregard verification methods like signature requirements.

Rejection rates for absentee ballots plummeted by more than 80 per cent in some states as the covid regime welcomed an unprecedented increase in mail-in voting. Politicians and media outlets ignored rampant voter fraud in the months leading up to the election. They treated concerns surrounding absentee voting as obscure conspiracy theories despite a bipartisan commission describing it as ‘the largest source of potential voter fraud’ a decade earlier.

It is now clear that the overhaul of the US election system was a deliberate initiative from the outset of the pandemic response. In March 2020, when the Government’s official policy was still ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’, the administrative state began instituting the infrastructure to hijack the November presidential election, more than 30 weeks beyond when the covid response was supposed to end.