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Given that each of the 50 states makes many of it’s own election rules/laws, and given that many of those states are GOP majority, you are right. Years ago, my husband, originally from Peoria, IL said that the corruption in voting in Daley’s Chicago was pretty well balanced by Republican activities in downstate Illinois. I grew up in New Jersey near NYC where there was a lot of Democrat strength. Just before I left for college we moved about 25 miles due west from NYC. Over the years my mother told me about the ways in which the Republican majority there worked their own “magic” at voting time.

Regarding the 74 year old woman, her encounter with Trump was 30 years earlier when she was around 44. At 44 I was still being carded at clubs. I also have experienced unwanted advances and border-line rape twice. The only reason it was not rape is that one was a law student and the other a lawyer. They knew how far they could push it to avoid a legal charge, and I knew what they knew so I fought like he$$ until they gave up. Many women do not know this and respond totally from fear as I almost did when the law student started pressing on my carotid artery to make me pass out. Even when the behavior is less terrifying (near other people in another room) many women are too embarrassed or frightened to cry out or report this behavior. Especially 30 years ago any complaint was usually met with, “Well, what were you wearing to provoke this response.”

As to accepting election results, look at Gore in Florida. His mistake was in asking that the strongly Democrat counties be checked carefully. If he had asked that all counties be checked he would have won, as subsequent analysis showed there were more questionable votes in the Republican counties. Shows he wasn’t smart enough to figure that opportunities for fraud against him would be easier in Republican counties where more of the poll workers were likely to be Republicans.