CNN keeps reporting that claims of election fraud are "baseless." I had to look up the word to be sure I still know what it means.

Merriam Webster defines "baseless" as "having no basis in reason or fact"

Given that courts have not ruled on all of the MANY alleged election fraud allegations, I agree to not call them verified facts. But does that qualify as baseless? The definition includes "reason," not just fact.

Let's look at the reason.

Crime happens 100% of the time when you have extreme motivation matched with ample opportunity. We have learned in the past week there are LOTS of opportunities for cheating in our porous election system so long as you can control the witnessing process, which is the case.

No one questions that Democrats controlling local elections had EXTREME motivation to cheat on this particular election because they had been brainwashed to believe Trump is Orange Hitler.

Any decent respect to the power of reason can see that this combination of extreme motivation plus easy opportunity GUARANTEES massive fraud. I'd call that a strong base for concern, the opposite of baseless. Add hundreds of direct witnesses and anomalous data to the reason too.

When the fake news uses words such as baseless and widespread, it is propaganda, not information. Learn the difference.