Our founders always thought that elections would be treated as a gentlemen’s battle of ideas, with all sides interested in preserving the process, win or lose.
Communism DID NOT exist, at all, back then. Totalitarianism, of the form under Communism and Fascism, also did not exist. Neither did cities or counties run by potentates. So our founders had no reason to fear any of it - and so, coupled with a relatively weak federal government, they thought it was a good idea to let states run elections, and states flowed that down to lower levels.
But now things are different, very different. Either we respond by pulling elections out of the hands of corrupt people, or we’re destroyed as a country. Our choice. Just in Texas, our first priority here SHOULD BE to get all of the elections run out of Austin, by the state government. They have the databases needed to verify whether people are real or not and, at least for now, they’re also not corrupt. Will it happen...probably not.
Our Founders could not have imagined elections in the modern sense, and if they could have, they would have banned them.
“Totalitarianism, of the form under Communism and Fascism, also did not exist. Neither did cities or counties run by potentates.”
History was full with these examples and our founders knew of them.