Your reading of the citation is inaccurate.
All the Intel agencies say the Russians meddled in the election. Russians have been meddling in US election since before the onset of the Cold War, and have only recently changed their tools to include social media.
Your conclusion that 'wouldn’t have won but for Russian interference' is not in that citation. Try again.
To deny that there weren't irregularities in the 2020 election is not a position based on the facts, because there certainly were irregularities leading up to the election, and post election.
For example:
There were a number of states which changed voting laws and voting regulations by other than the State legislatures, which, per the constitution, are the only ones authorized to change a state's voting laws and regulations.
- What would you expect an advocate of mail-in balloting to say? Other than ‘if you did it my way everything would be solved, and better’.
- In Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams and the nonpartisan State Board of Elections came to an agreement earlier this year to eliminate the excuse requirement for mail-in ballots and expand in-person early voting. – Not the State legislature?
- Secretaries of state from both parties in Ohio and Michigan took unilateral action to help make the voting process easier during this election. – Not the State legislature?
- Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- judges have recently issued rulings that extend the deadline for mail ballots to be received. – Not the State legislature?
- In Georgia, a federal judge ruled that ballots postmarked by Election Day will count if election officials get them by the third day after the election, but the secretary of state, the Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party are challenging this order in court. – Not the State legislature?
Here's how states have changed the rules around voting amid the coronavirus pandemic
Nine states plus D.C. will send mail-in ballots to active registered voters.
By
Quinn Scanlan, September 22, 2020
Voting is always confusing, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more so -- here's what you need to know about how voting has changed for the general election.
abcnews.go.com
So to deny that there weren't unprecedented irregularities in the 2020 election is not a position based on the facts,