I'm rather curious what everyone thinks. How bad do you think the cheating is? Like for example, do you think Fulton county and Atlanta are actually red, but they just cheat that badly there. Or perhaps it's a swing county in reality, or maybe it's actually blue, just nowhere near as much as they make it out to be.
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True dat. So there is this concept called "wasted votes" that applies to states where there is a preponderance of one party or the other. Example: Illinois is so Blue that some of those votes are considered (by this theory) to be "wasted" and could have been used more effectively in other states that are NOT as Blue. The Blue candidate was going to win no matter what the turnout. But on rare occasions, such as the election in Tennessee, those "wasted" votes actually turn out to be helpful, in that they staved off some tepid cheating attempts.
A local talk-show host here in Knoxville posed a question for his upcoming show this evening, "What would it take for you to trust elections again?"
For me, it would take long prison sentences and maybe a lynching or two, and an entirely NEW batch of people who have been sufficiently impressed and educated about what happened to their predecessors. Maybe take them out to see the hanging bodies, and then swear them in.
And maybe -- MAYBE -- then I will trust elections again.