A good friend of mine does not believe the 2020 election was rigged because of the "enthusiasm for Biden" that was behind the scenes that drove voter turnout. 

Okay, I'll agree that quite a bit happened behind the scenes....and behind the barricades and poster boards and whatever else Democrats could find to help block vote counting from view.  Those acts helped give Biden the edge. 

But then he also made the argument that if I thought 2020 was rigged in the election system, then why don't I believe that 2016 was rigged for Trump to win.

At first reaction, I stated that if 2016 was rigged for Trump, then Clinton and the Democrats would have raised holy hell about it.  

I previously reported on the Pump and Dump software algorithm that gave Joe Biden the victory in Pennsylvania

The following charts depict the algorithm's activity from 76 percent of the vote and forward until December 4, 2020 (based on Edison Research vote tallies as reported to the New York Times). 

At 76% of the vote, Trump had 54.7% of the vote while Biden had 43.9%.  The vote totals stood at Trump 2,976,329 to Biden's 2,388,681 -- a lead of 587,648 votes.

That all changed when the algorithm stole over 190,000 votes from Trump moved them to Biden.  

Note that the result of the algorithm is "double," meaning that the Biden gain is in addition to the Trump loss.   Therefore, the vote swing (by the algorithm) over this time period was 380,000 votes.

Rudy Guiliani can quit arguing about Pennsylvania not counting some 600,000 unlawful votes cast in Pennsylvania and start arguing that nearly 290,000 voters need to have their votes restored.

It's a 14th Amendment, equal protection clause issue to be sure, as their right to vote for the candidate of their choice was DENIED. 

At yesterday's press conference (transcript here), Trump Team lawyer Sidney Powell alleged that Smartmatic software was manipulating the election results and at some point in the night the algorithm broke down and the counting of votes had to be stopped to fix it.  See below (my emphasis added).

Now the software itself was created with so many variables and so many back doors that can be hooked up to the internet or a thumbdrive stuck in it or whatever, but one of its most characteristic features is its ability to flip votes. It can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President Biden which we might never have uncovered had the votes for President Trump not been so overwhelming in so many of these states that it broke the algorithm that had been plugged into the system and that’s what caused them to have to shut down in the states they shut down in. That’s when they came in the backdoor with all the mail-in ballots, many of which they had actually fabricated, some were on pristine paper with identically matching perfect circle dots for Mr. Biden. Others were shoved in in batches, they’re always put in in a certain number of batches and people would rerun the same batch. This corresponds to our statistical evidence that shows incredible spikes in the vote counts at particular times and that corresponds to eyewitness testimony of numerous people who have come forward and said they saw the ballots come in the backdoor at that time.

Powell, in an interview this morning with Fox Business News, explained that she's "not really a numbers person," so her explanation needs a little help.