How Democrats Steal Elections In 4 Mins

6 min

•Jun 12, 2026about 1 month ago

Summary

Michael Knowles presents a historical overview of alleged Democratic election fraud tactics spanning from the 1800s to 2020, arguing that Democrats have systematically used absentee ballots, ballot harvesting, and other methods to steal elections. The episode frames recent Los Angeles election results as evidence of continued fraudulent practices.

Insights

Historical pattern analysis: The episode identifies absentee ballots and ballot harvesting as recurring Democratic tactics across 200 years of U.S. elections
Legal ambiguity: Practices that may be technically legal in Democratic strongholds are presented as suspicious when they benefit Democratic candidates
Conviction vs. allegation gap: The speaker argues that documented convictions represent only a fraction of actual fraud cases acknowledged by historians
Institutional vulnerability: Election administration systems in major cities remain susceptible to the same vulnerabilities exploited historically

Trends

Expansion of absentee voting mechanisms as election security vulnerabilityBallot drop box proliferation without standardized chain-of-custody protocolsState-level constitutional violations through unilateral voter law changesGeographic concentration of alleged fraud in Democratic-controlled urban centersLate-counted absentee ballots determining election outcomes in close races

Topics

Election fraud history and patternsAbsentee ballot security and chain of custodyBallot harvesting practicesBallot drop box vulnerabilitiesDemocratic Party election tacticsState constitutional violations in voter law changes2020 election rule changesChicago election fraud historyLyndon Johnson 1948 Texas Senate election2026 Los Angeles mayoral electionTammany Hall ballot stuffingPennsylvania 1994 absentee ballot fraudEast Chicago 2003 mayoral election fraud1960 Kennedy-Nixon Illinois electionElection official indictments and convictions

People

Michael Knowles

Host presenting analysis of Democratic election fraud tactics throughout U.S. history

Spencer Pratt

Insurgent Republican candidate in 2026 Los Angeles election allegedly defeated by late absentee ballot count

Nitya Raman

Socialist candidate in 2026 Los Angeles election who allegedly benefited from late ballot counting

Karen Bass

Democratic incumbent in 2026 Los Angeles mayoral election described as former communist

Lyndon B. Johnson

Allegedly stole 1948 Texas Senate seat through fraudulent ballot box 13 votes

Robert Dalloch

Biographer of JFK and Nixon who concluded Democrats probably stole Illinois from Nixon in 1960

Bruce Marks

Republican who led Democrat William Stinson by 500 votes before absentee ballots were counted in 1994 Pennsylvania el...

William Stinson

Democrat who won 1994 Pennsylvania state Senate seat through allegedly fraudulent absentee ballots

Quotes

"If Democrats want us to believe there isn't any voter fraud, why do they keep expanding the use of all the same tricks they've used to steal elections for the past 200 years?"

Michael Knowles

"An audit of a New York City election in 1868, for example, found that 16% of all votes cast were fraudulent, cooked up by Democrats in Tammany Hall."

Michael Knowles

"In 1948, Lyndon Johnson infamously stole a Texas Senate seat thanks to the drop of 202 late votes in ballot box 13, giving LBJ an 87-vote victory."

Michael Knowles

"In Chicago alone, a grand jury found that 100,000 fraudulent votes had been cast."

Michael Knowles

Full Transcript

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Download Polymarket and use promo code PASS for $50 free on your first trade. Use promo code PASS. Trading not available in all jurisdictions. Check local regulations before trading. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. On election day 2026, insurgent candidate Spencer Pratt looked like he might flip Los Angeles to the Republicans, edging out socialist candidate Nitya Raman, setting up a runoff between former communist turned democratic incumbent Karen Bass and the Republican Pratt. But then something strange happened. After five days of counting extra ballots, the socialist Raman came up with just enough ballots to overtake Pratt. Meaning that no matter what happened in the runoff, a Democrat would continue to run LA into the ground. How did the Democrats do it? To answer that question, we need to take a trip down memory lane. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828. Shortly thereafter, party apparatuses such as Tammany Hall institutionalized election theft by stuffing ballot boxes, repeat voting, casting ballots for dead people, bribery, intimidation, absentee ballots, ballot harvesting, and importing voters from outside areas. An audit of a New York City election in 1868, for example, found that 16% of all votes cast were fraudulent, cooked up by Democrats in Tammany Hall. In 1948, Lyndon Johnson infamously stole a Texas Senate seat thanks to the drop of 202 late votes in ballot box 13, giving LBJ an 87-vote victory. That braze in election theft made it all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ultimately didn't want to get involved and washed its hands of the matter. As a result, LBJ went on to become vice president and then president of the United States. In 1994, Democrats tried to steal a state Senate seat in Pennsylvania. On election day, Republican Bruce Marks led Democrat William Stinson by over 500 votes. But the absentee ballots curiously went overwhelmingly for the Democrat, giving Stinson just enough votes to win overall. In that case, happily, a federal judge found that Philadelphia election officials had illegally delivered hundreds of absentee ballot packets directly to the Democrats, who in turn collected votes for people who were ineligible to cast votes when they weren't forging the votes outright. Democrats ran precisely the same absentee ballot playbook in 2003 in the East Chicago Indiana mayors race, fraud we know about only because the Indiana Supreme Court decided to get involved, ordering a new election, which the Democrat fraudster happily lost. Democrats' reliance on absentee ballot harvesting became so widespread, especially in states such as Illinois, Arkansas, and Georgia, that the 1982 Illinois elections resulted in 62 indictments and 58 convictions for election fraud. Including not only campaign workers, but precinct captains and election officials. In Chicago alone, a grand jury found that 100,000 fraudulent votes had been cast. But Chicago had already been a central hub of Democrat election theft for decades, most infamously exemplified by the 1960 presidential election in which Robert Dalloch, a biographer of both John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, concluded that Democrats, quote, probably stole Illinois from Nixon. In 2020, Democrat politicians infamously changed voter laws throughout the United States to increase absentee ballots and insecure ballot drop boxes, in some cases such as Pennsylvania, in violation of the state constitution. Despite claims of perfectly secure elections, hundreds of Democrats over American history have been convicted over election fraud, and those convictions represent only a small percentage of cases, which represent only a small percentage of allegations of voter fraud widely acknowledged by historians and really by anyone with eyes. In Los Angeles, we see the same old story, a Republican defeated by the last minute count of absentee ballots, cast without any solid chain of custody, often in ballot drop boxes without any election security. Those circumstances might all be perfectly legal, at least in a Democrat stronghold such as Gamora by the Sea. But we're still left with a simple question. If Democrats want us to believe there isn't any voter fraud, why do they keep expanding the use of all the same tricks they've used to steal elections for the past 200 years?