As a lawyer who was in the middle of this, I'll pass along these thoughts:
1. VA should give you hope;
2. We did great with poll watchers, but needed FAR more, especially in precincts and counties largely infested by Democrats;
3. We need more people willing to serve on electoral boards, especially in counties largely infested by Democrats. In VA, each electoral board is supposed to contain at least one member of each party. In many Democrat jurisdictions we can't find any Republicans to serve, so the Democrats run rampant.
4. The Democrats had plenty of chances at fraud in VA because the previous Democrat legislature enacted election laws making it very easy to cheat. I suspect Youngkin was actually up by five or six percent. The Democrats simply couldn't cheat their way out of that much of a deficit.
The takeaways are (i) there is reason for hope; (ii) in states where we can, we must tighten up the election laws; and (iii) EVERYONE on our side needs to get involved to fight this war. It is not enough to simply complain (I'm not accusing you of that.). It's a real inconvenience and potentially a lot of work to serve as a poll watcher (especially now that many states have weeks-long in-person voting) or an election official, but we must find more people on our side to do it.
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It is so simple to put an end to this that even a caveman can do it.
1) Find out when your local primaries are being held.
2) Take a vacation day on that day. Do not schedule your yearly summer vacation during that week.
3) Primary every republiCAN’T with an I (incumbent) next to their name.
After this is done, then:
1) Park your car either in the front or back doors of the polling place, with your trusty phone and watch.
2) If you are allowed as a citizen to sit in the polling place and watch, do so.
3) When the polls close, and the precincts are done, watch the front and back doors of the counting place. Record everything.
4) If you are allowed as a citizen to sit in the counting place and watch, do so.
So simple, and only requires (1) day of commitment.
If people want to get involved, the hard work, i.e., research, has been done for them already:
If you recall that incident in Fairfax/Arlington on the night of the election where there was an attempt by dims to rerun a drive of votes and was stopped by Republicans on watch. dims claimed it was a honest mistake after being caught, and by then dims realized that even running an xtra 20k votes two times would not even cover the difference. And I know someone involved in stopping that cheating, so this is not just conjecture.