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Originally Posted by MarchHare
My biggest fear is election shenanigans. The following scenario is not at all far-fetched:
1. Polls open at 7am.
2. By 7:15, there are "Army of Trump" brownshirts at polling locations in heavy Democrat-leaning areas intimidating voters and openly brandishing firearms.
3. At 9am, Fox News starts blasting footage of Antifa/Black Panthers/insert any other left-wing Boogeyman "thugs" doing what the the Army of Trump are actually doing.
4. At 10am, some right-wing nutcase, inspired by Fox's reporting, goes on a murder spree and shoots up a polling location.
5. The mass shooting is all over the news on every channel by 10:30.
6. Many Biden voters then stay home out of fear of getting murdered by Trump's fascist goon squad.
And that's not even getting into the various ways the GOP will look to discredit the results of mail-in ballots and all the other ways they will attempt to disenfranchise poor people and minorities. I can't believe in the self-described "world's greatest democracy" that this is not only a possible scenario but a probable one. How far American has fallen.  |
Right, I think everyone needs to be paying a lot of attention to what's going on in Pennsylvania with the Republicans trying to establish an election commission with subpoena powers. Here's how I see that playing out:
1. Some Pennsylvania Trump supporters will vote twice, following Trump's instructions that he gave at Pennsylvania rallies in September. (Expect Trump to tell people who voted by mail that their votes were probably not counted and they should vote again.)
2. This results in their ballots being disqualified, giving the GOP all the excuse they need to cry shenanigans.
3. Election Commission swoops in, locks down and subpoenas everything, alleges fraud, basically brings the count to a standstill.
4. The deadline for appointing electors is reached, and with the count not completed, Pennsylvania GOP-controlled congress appoints their own slate of Trump-friendly electors. This is challenged to the supreme court, which of course finds for the GOP.
The disturbing thing about this process is that there's not really any voting margin that protects against this. Pennsyvlania could go +15 for Biden, and Trump and the GOP would simply argue that the unlikely margin of victory simply proves that there were shenanigans and justifies them awarding the EC votes to Trump.