I know Trump well enough to understand that losing is not in his vocabulary. He will simply see what happened the other evening as a temporary setback.
It is almost exactly 20 years since Tony Blair introduced postal voting on demand in Britain. As with so many things involving Blair, it has been disastrous. In the early years, no proof of identity was even required to vote in this way. This ridiculous system has contaminated British politics. While many court cases concerning postal vote fraud have finished with prison sentences being handed down, the widespread scale of abuse is truly incredible. A 2016 government report into the practice found that it is open to “fraud, undue influence, theft and tampering.” To this I would add that Left is much better than the Right when it comes to cheating. Take the Peterborough by-election last year, when a carrier bag containing 1,000 ballot papers was delivered to a polling station. A convicted electoral fraudster who campaigned with the winning candidate was also seen at the count wearing a Labour rosette. When members of the Brexit Party knocked on doors in the center of Peterborough, initially people were happy to talk to us about their blank ballot papers having been collected. When we returned, no doors would open to us. My awareness of the damage that postal voting has done in Britain tells me that Donald Trump is right to fight on in the U.S., though he does need to find sufficient evidence. I spent the last eight days of the presidential campaign traveling to many states and following the Trump train.
