I got my letter published as a pie in the face to the local TP clueless. Does that seem arrogant? Not when you examine more closely the kind of drivel they submit for fact, inference or simply rabid nonsensical propaganda. The paper is solidly right-wing, but publish letters from both sides, since they know the majority readership and subscribership is now Democratic -- and always close either way. The split had always been a close one, and when GOP voters outnumbered Dem by ~40,000 out of an 800,000 total in the county, their side had argued it was enough of a reason for them only to publish opinion from the Right -- which they still do.
I'll show the text of it here and save my fingers:
I agree with [ < letter writer>, date] that a recount might turn up voting by "illegals," but so would the initial process. There are something like 168,000 voting precincts in the US, all run by dedicated bipartisan citizens with rigorous record-keeping. If there were, for instance, any significant voting by non-citizens just in California, someone would have come forward to prove it. If you cannot prove it, you cannot insist that it happened.
Trump’s supporters race to a conclusion that his opposition pursues recounts in selected states for being "sore losers," hoping to overturn the election result. But the focus is on swing state results where fraud could yield the biggest payoff to the fraudulent.
The nature of suspicion driving a recount effort is different. Registrars and others would likely catch the citizen registered as "Mickey Mouse" or the Trump voter caught trying to vote twice. Instead, any effort to tamper with electronic voting systems to flip thousands of votes would be a crime much more serious than individual voter fraud.
As for "dead people," registration records contain many, because people die. You can investigate the possibility of those identities being misused, but the possibility that it could happen doesn't make it more likely. The steps necessary to accomplish that sort of fraud make it even more unlikely to occur.
Trump seemed rather defensive about these recount efforts, as he over-reacts to many things. I find his behavior interesting, since he won the electoral votes. But it is a dangerous notion to say he won the popular vote when we know with considerable certainty that he lost by north of 2 million.
And it is monumentally naive for a Trump supporter to insist that 3 million fraudulent votes were cast in California because of someone's estimate that we have 3 million undocumented residents here. Just my opinion, but if you consider that idea a matter of logic or common sense, I don't think you should be able to vote.