Donald Trump's Own Expert Debunks His Election Claims

The elections technology expert who former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign hired to find voter fraud debunked Trump's claims again in a scathing op-ed.

Ken Block, founder of Simpatico Software Systems, the analytics company that Trump contracted in the wake of the last presidential election, said Tuesday that the extensive research his company did no evidence that election fraud contributed to President Joe Biden's win. He blasted Trump's "steady diet of lies and innuendo."

"If voter fraud had impacted the 2020 election, it would already have been proven. Maintaining the lies undermines faith in the foundation of our democracy," Block wrote in an op-ed published by USA Today.

Block said he was hired shortly after the election to investigate Trump's claims and that his company's contract "obligated us to deliver evidence of voter fraud that could be defended in a court of law." However, the fraud that he found was bipartisan and small, thus failing to "provide a solid basis for a legal challenge to an election result in any of the states we evaluated."

Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign via email for comment.

Block, who was recently questioned by the Department of Justice, previously told news station WPRI-TV that he was initially paid $750,000 by the campaign to analyze fraud in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin but that his project was broadened to include other claims.

On Tuesday, Block said he found "no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of any election" and that the message was communicated directly to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. He acknowledged his findings were also subpoenaed by Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who are investigating Trump's alleged election interference in a federal and state case, respectively.

"Those emails and documents show that the voter data available to the campaign contained no evidence of large-scale voter fraud based on data mining and fraud analytics," Block said. "More important, claims of voter fraud made by others were verified as false, including proof of why those claims were disproven."

Despite his findings, Block said, "The cries that the election was lost or stolen due to voter fraud continue with no sign of stopping."

"Whether a stump speech, outrageous lawsuits like the so-called Kraken cases filed by Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani's lies or the ongoing misguided efforts of people determined to prove the election was stolen, the constant drumbeat hardens people's hearts and minds to the truth about the 2020 election," he said.

Block said even if his company was able to find enough fraudulent votes to question the margin of victory in key battleground states, there would have been no way to determine if the fraudulent ballots were cast for Trump or Biden.

"We vote anonymously − with good reason. No candidate can credibly claim that a fraudulent vote was credited to their opponent unless the person who cast that vote tells us," Block wrote. "This means that a candidate trying to use voter fraud as the reason to change an election result cannot show that the fraudulent votes caused their election loss."

Instead of spending time investigating election fraud, he said the U.S. would make better use of time, money and energy to address systemic weaknesses in the nation's election systems, like infrastructure that could enforce election integrity and gerrymandering.

Block has a new book coming out on March 12 called Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data that Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections.