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<p>Donald Trump is whining that if he does not win the presidency, it&#8217;s because the election was &#8220;rigged.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re putting a lot of law enforcement &#8211; we&#8217;re going to watch Pennsylvania, go down to certain areas and watch and study, and make sure other people don&#8217;t come in and vote five times,&#8221; Trump said, while talking about Philadelphia.</p><p>With his call to use police as poll monitors in select Pennsylvania communities, Trump is touting police and so-called poll watchers as a potential tool of intimidation against voters of color.</p><p>A man called &#8220;The Sue Henry Show&#8221; on WILK Radio last month, alleging the election results in Philadelphia were impossible. Henry did not dispute it. </p><p>She also seemingly supported the unconstitutional Pennsylvania voter ID law. The state was unable to cite even one example of voter impersonation when a judge asked its lawyers to do so.</p><p>I analyze the facts, rather than rely on debunked conspiracy theories.</p><p>Fifty-nine voting divisions in Philadelphia recorded no votes for Mitt Romney in 2015, and 51 recorded no votes for John McCain in 2008. Several recorded no votes for George Bush in 2004.</p><p>&#8220;Many parts of Philadelphia and other big cities simply lack Republican voters,&#8221; said Jonathan Rodden, a political science professor at Stanford University. Since 2004, <em>no one</em> from any of these districts has claimed to have voted for the Republican candidate, a necessary element to prove voter fraud.</p><p>The Philadelphia Inquirer did an article about this issue and found no evidence of voter fraud.</p><p>Thus, the election results in Philadelphia were reflective not of an &#8220;impossible&#8221; statistical anomaly, but rather of a general historical trend widely seen throughout the city.</p><p>Further, these conspiracy theories suggest that, in election after election, thousands of elections officials conspired to commit voter fraud.</p><p>Is it any wonder that only 1 percent of African-Americans say they will vote for Trump?</p><p><strong>David L. Schaar</strong></p><p>Wilkes-Barre</p><style>
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Letter to the Editor: Rumors of election fraud in Philadelphia don’t hold up to scrutiny, writer says