I have heard friends who are involved in the politics at the state level say the same thing regarding election season, mail in voting and ballot harvesting - you gotta play the game to have a chance.
If/when the Rs get good at the game is when you will see the left start crying about election fraud.
It’s hard to believe that in Wisconsin, the state legislature is almost veto-proof for the Republicans, but the Dems still have the statewide offices.
I'm going with #2. Fraud is fraud, and the voting systems are so compromised now, the DSC will always be able to best any conservative attempts to match that fraud.
Brunson case just got denied by SCOTUS for standing. No surprise but still disappointing.
I’m on option #4.
2022 was the last election where I’ll be voting for anyone.
I will be in the voting booth, but it will be a write-in of “No Confidence” for each elected office.
The GOP (other than Trump) has not had a coherent message for nearly two decades. They have a party platform, but you'd never know it when watching them during campaign season. They don't try to compete in the big cities, they don't reach out to non-white voters that might be receptive to their message, and they try to drive away MAGA and Tea Party voters despite the fact that this party needs every vote it can get. That doesn't sound like a party that is serious about winning elections and being the majority party.
That being said, it is sheer insanity to deny voter fraud occurred in both 2020 and 2022 and to deny that it is very likely to occur in significant Democrat cities in swing states even if Republicans manage to master ballot harvesting and mail-in/drop box voting.
What happened in Atlanta in 2020 -- the lie about the waterline break, ballots pulled out from beneath tables and ballots being run through machines multiple times by Ruby Freeman -- and the intentional printing of ballots that wouldn't run through the machines in Maricopa county this election cycle can't be ignored.