We live in a fallen world where cultivating good takes time, effort, and discipline while evil is quick and easy. A beautiful piece of art may take years to create, but a fire or act of vandalism destroys it in seconds. Doing the right thing takes integrity, discipline, and perseverance while giving in to selfish desire is quick and effortless. This is why, in our fallen state, the tendency is that power corrupts and poverty cultivates virtue.

Everyone believes that with 150 million people voting in presidential elections there is bound to be some cheating. Up until now the presumption has been it is not enough to change the outcome. The question we now must face is whether we have enough technology and rich people in right places to enable a wider scale fraud that can alter the outcome of an election.

The overt machinations of unethical conduct during the 2020 campaign were obvious. Trump derangement slander communicated through the media every day for four years, fake polls showing a massive blue wave, and social media platforms continuously censoring only one side of the political spectrum, all would in any other era be seen as widespread unjust collusion. But this is only the open, “acceptable” cheating.

No one knows what happens with dirty money, foreign interference, and cheating through mail-in voting; nor with faulty voting machines and big-city Democrat poll workers counting votes and making judgment calls.

These and many other shady goings on may not be fully known nor provable in court. Instead, the 2020 election question may come down to what the evidence points to rather than proves, and people will believe differently on this.

Nevertheless, when it comes to the question of election integrity in our era, there is one basic principle that cannot be ignored: Any people or party who can rationalize the killing of babies can rationalize anything.