Were there irregularities in the 2024 election?

Within hours of Donald Trump being declared the win­ner of the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, I began to see rum­blings on social media about vot­ing irreg­u­lar­i­ties. Odd results in cru­cial coun­ties in swing states. Reports of tam­per­ing. Vague ref­er­ences to impos­si­bly large num­bers of votes cast in cer­tain precincts.

Not only did I ignore these unsup­port­ed reports, but I also active­ly urged peo­ple to stop shar­ing them. Didn’t we just spend eight years try­ing to assure Americans that our elec­tions are safe, secure, and reli­able? After all the alle­ga­tions and accu­sa­tions from the MAGA cor­ner about the pre­vi­ous elections—all of which were dis­missed by the courts as invalid—why would we want to open that can of worms again? Wouldn’t that be hypocritical?

So when a fam­i­ly mem­ber told me about some of the reports he was hear­ing recent­ly about irreg­u­lar­i­ties from the 2024 elec­tion, I was skeptical.

“No,” I prac­ti­cal­ly shout­ed. “We’re not going there again.”

But the fam­i­ly mem­ber urged me to check out a group called “SMART Elections” on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069050042674). So, I did. And what I found dis­turbed me.

The first thing I noticed was that SMART Elections has not only filed a law­suit in Rockland County, New York chal­leng­ing the results of both the pres­i­den­tial and sen­ate race in that coun­ty, but that a judge was allow­ing the case to move for­ward, some­thing that indi­cates at least some mer­it to the suit.

The law­suit seeks a full hand recount of the Presidential and US Senate races in Rockland County. The case is now in the evi­dence-gath­er­ing stage, with the next court date set for Sept 22, 2025.

Still, as we learned from the Trump legal maneu­vers, any­one can file a law­suit. And find­ing a sym­pa­thet­ic judge—something they were nev­er able to do—is still not proof of wrongdoing.

But as I delved into SMART Elections, I became con­vinced that this is not some left-wing shill look­ing to over­turn the elec­tion. They don’t take sides. For instance, they have also crit­i­cized the chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party for elec­tion­eer­ing with­in 100 feet of a polling loca­tion dur­ing ear­ly vot­ing in the 2024 pri­ma­ry, some­thing that is illegal.

SMART Elections calls itself “expe­ri­enced, non­par­ti­san elec­tion secu­ri­ty advocates.”

I’m not ready to start shout­ing from the moun­tain­tops that Trump was not duly elect­ed, or that any oth­er elec­tion results from 2024 are invalid. But I am will­ing to watch and lis­ten. You should as well. We must be able to trust the results of our elec­tions, or we no longer have a demo­c­ra­t­ic form of gov­ern­ment. And yes, despite what Donald Trump is try­ing to pull off, we do still have a demo­c­ra­t­ic republic—for now.

Check our SMART Elections at https://smartelections.us/ to learn more about the orga­ni­za­tion and about the Rockland County lawsuit.