Breaking Down Trump’s Plan To Steal The Election (And Why It’s Failing)
Undermining democratic legitimacy and conning supporters, but not actually affecting results
I saw this coming. As President Trump denigrated vote-by-mail and installed crony Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General, his unsubtle plan to manipulate the election came into focus. I called it out in July, and again, step-by-step, in August:
Now we’re seeing the last step play out, with Trump and his allies spreading lies, conspiracy theories, and false insinuations about voter fraud. There are a few isolated cases, as there always are — a registered Republican in Pennsylvania got caught requesting an absentee ballot for his dead mother — but no evidence of the widespread, outcome-affecting fraud they’re alleging.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, a real plot to fake thousands of votes across multiple states would take a lot of people. And they’d have to do a lot of unusual things in front of local officials, poll watchers, and various government workers, all of whom have smartphones.
