by Daniel Johnson
March 11, 2024
Block wrote an op-ed for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in which he said every single election fraud claim he was asked to investigate had been proven false.
The Trump campaign reportedly paid Ken Block $750,000 to uncover alleged cases of voter fraud in several swing states during the 2020 election, only to refute several of the claims within minutes. Block, a software developer, told the campaign that their data was incomplete and not falsified and that people with the same name were incorrectly counted as double voters. Block told Business Insider that while the Trump team didn't pressure him, it was clear what outcome they wanted.
In Block's book “Disproven,” which will be published on March 12, he describes his dissatisfaction with Trump. “Former President Trump turned losing with grace into losing with shame,” Block writes in the book. “He has produced a group of defeated candidates who would rather complain – without justification – about voter fraud than demonstrate the leadership qualities required by the positions for which they ran.”
Block continued: “Some of these failed candidates making baseless allegations of voter fraud don’t seem to understand their own claims. Others disdain factual accuracy. For these people, the end goal has nothing to do with winning an election. It’s about raising money or notoriety – or worse, undermining our republic.”
Block also wrote an op-ed for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in which he said every single election fraud claim he was asked to investigate has been proven false. In particular, in the 2020 vote in Wisconsin, Trump officials claimed that the wrong winner of that state had been certified by election officials. The real reason Trump lost had nothing to do with voter fraud. According to Block, Trump's messages, which caused divisions within the Republican Party, were the reason for Trump's loss.
Additionally, Block wrote, the Trump campaign appears unable to develop strategies to win votes in Wisconsin. “The 37,000 votes Trump lost are easy to explain. He called on moderate Republicans to raise it, and the lost votes confirm that those voters did what they were told. Trump probably would have won Wisconsin if he hadn't outlawed the RINOs. How can a candidate so concerned about a few thousand imaginary vote frauds be so careless about losing the support of millions of voters across the country?”
Block also questioned the logic of a voter fraud narrative, writing, “Trump's poor performance caused him to lose more than 37,000 votes in Wisconsin's red counties alone in 2020 – a fact that argues strongly against the voter fraud narrative.” Why would anyone commit voter fraud in a very conservative district if it harms the conservative candidate?”
Block ultimately concluded: “Voter fraud was not the cause of Trump’s 2020 election loss in Wisconsin. The amazingly close race was lost because Trump’s message was too narrow.”
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