Vindication is like wine: It gets better with age.

Earlier this month, we learned that election officials in Atlanta’s Fulton County admitted that they’d counted some 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election that were illegally certified.

Think about that. This is Georgia, where Donald Trump “lost” to Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes. As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman reports:

The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. Cross filed a challenge with the SEB in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia statute in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation “tapes” critical to the certification process.

Remind me again: What was it Donald Trump was talking to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about? Oh, yes: “All I want to do is this,” said Trump. “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won this state, and flipping the state is a great testament to the country.”

Remember how the legacy media went nuts? Aha! He’s asking for fabricated and fraudulent votes to help him win!

No, he knew Fulton County was not running an above-board election. And five years later, we’re finally finding out that Trump was right yet again. It’s not proof, technically, that all those votes were fraudulent, but they absolutely shouldn’t have been counted in that condition.

“When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules,” said Cross, “those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.”

CBS, though, which grudgingly covered the story, defends the Left’s Trump-deranged turf from the jump. Its lead sentence reads, “The U.S. Justice Department is suing Fulton County officials in an attempt to obtain sensitive voter records from the 2020 presidential election.”

Got it, you conspiratorial rubes? These are sensitive voter records, and there’s nothingtoseeheresokindlymovealong.

Consider: After Trump’s improbable 2016 election win, Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats tried to cripple his administration by framing him as a Russian stooge. Then they impeached him for calling into question the Biden Crime Family’s corrupt relationship with Ukraine. Then they used the investigative and intelligence services of the federal government to interfere with the 2020 election, first by hiding the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop and second by suppressing the ability of the media to report on it. Then they impeached him again for raising legitimate and constitutionally protected questions about the aforementioned 2020 election. Then they raided his Mar-a-Lago home and sniffed around in the first lady’s underwear drawer even though we now know that the FBI didn’t think it had probable cause to do so. Then they tried to imprison Trump and thereby keep him off the 2024 ballot by concocting multiple dubious legal cases against him. Then they resorted to calling him “fascist” and “Hitler” and thereby encouraged multiple assassination attempts against him. Then they funded and staged nationwide rallies to protest his policies — indeed, his very existence — in order to keep him from fulfilling his campaign promises to the American people. And now they’re undermining our commander-in-chief by encouraging insurrectionist behavior among members of our military.

Now then, given all this, is it really beyond the pale to suggest that the Democrats might have resorted to election-rigging behavior in a handful of urban centers within a handful of critical swing states in order to prevent Donald Trump, Le Bête Orange, from winning reelection? I mean, at this point, can anyone with an IQ above room temperature really believe that basement-bound Joe Biden got all 81 million of those votes on the up-and-up?

And is it likewise beyond the pale to suggest that Democrats in recent years might’ve also “found” the necessary votes to tip the scales in a handful of crucial and tightly contested Senate races in Georgia (twice), Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona?

Heck, you’d practically have to be a conspiracy theorist to insist that the Democrats didn’t try to rig any of these elections.

In a related story, the Trump DOJ is also suing a bunch of states to clean up their dirty voter rolls. The goal, of course, is election integrity, but it’s also to prevent a blue wave of dead people from helping the Democrats retake the House in next year’s midterms. And, wisely, the administration is suing both red states and blue states.

According to the DOJ’s press release: “The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced it has filed federal lawsuits against four jurisdictions — District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, and Wisconsin — for failure to produce their full voter registration lists upon request. This brings the Justice Department’s nationwide total to 22. In addition, three states — Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee — today announced to the Justice Department their intent to voluntarily provide their full registration lists, pursuant to the Department’s request.”

“States have the statutory duty to preserve and protect their constituents from vote dilution,” said DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon in a press release. “At this Department of Justice, we will not permit states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections by refusing to abide by our federal elections laws. If states will not fulfill their duty to protect the integrity of the ballot, we will.”

It’s a good start. But it’s only a start.