Expert hired by Trump to prove voter fraud gives inside look at 'haphazard' effort

Donald Trump's bid to find voter fraud in order to cling to power in 2020 was not an organized one, according to a man who was hired to find examples of fraud but failed to do so.

Ken Block, whose company Simpatico Software Systems was contracted by Trump in November 2020 to investigate assorted voter fraud claims, has a new book in which he recounts his story, according to The Washington Post.

"The December 2020 claim of voter fraud was explosive, if true: More than 700,000 people had voted twice in Wisconsin, the tip alleged," the Post writes. "But when a highly paid expert for Donald Trump’s campaign began to study the claim at the behest of a Trump lawyer, he quickly realized that not only was it false, it had also traveled a surprisingly twisted path before landing in his inbox."

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According to Block, the purported tip took a crazy route to his desk.

"The expert, Ken Block, learned it had first appeared in a post on a website called TheDonald.win, where it was spotted by the owner of an IT company, who brought it to the attention of the general manager of Trump’s golf course in the Bronx," the outlet reported. "The golf executive forwarded the tip to the president’s son, Eric, who passed it along to the lawyer. At last, the lawyer, Alex Cannon, directed the wild Wisconsin claim to Block, a software engineer and former politician from Rhode Island who was hired by the campaign shortly after the 2020 election."

Block reportedly said the "double-counted votes" were "nothing of the sort," and shot down the tip. But that's just one example of the strange mechanism Trump used to try to find fraud.

"Block’s upcoming book provides an insider’s account of the desperate measures Trump’s campaign took to pursue allegations of voter fraud and of how quickly the campaign concluded internally that each one was invalid, even as the president continued to rile up his supporters by claiming the election was stolen," according to the report. "Block’s book explains how he found himself in the center of repeated and furtive efforts to overturn the election, a haphazard effort that often enlisted seemingly random people to find fraud before Biden took office."

Read the full report here.