Posted on 07/01/2020 10:07:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’ve had close elections before, but political experts are bracing for events that might be unprecedented come November.
Surprisingly large portions of both Republicans and Democrats seem poised to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election if their side loses. Some even favor authoritarian rule over elections as the best way to run the country. And a new worry for 2020 is the risk that more mail-in voting could delay official results well past Election Day, leaving voters wondering whether it will be Donald Trump’s agenda or Joe Biden’s, once January arrives.
New research by the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group finds that 38% of Democrats favor a do-over election if their candidate, Joe Biden, wins the popular vote this year but loses the electoral vote, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. Among Republicans, 11% favor a do-over if Biden wins the electoral vote but President Trump wins the popular vote. In the U.S. system, electoral votes are awarded for each state a candidate wins, rather than for the national tally, and there’s no provision for a repeat election if there’s a split decision. The electoral vote carries the day.
If Trump wins and there’s credible evidence of interference by a foreign government—as there was in 2016, we now know—57% of Democrats say they’d back a do-over election. And if Trump lost but claimed there was voter fraud, 29% of Republicans say it would be appropriate if he refused to leave office.
“There are multiple contexts in which people might plausibly be mobilized to reject the legitimacy of the election,” political scientist Larry Diamond of Stanford University, who co-authored the Democracy Fund analysis, says in the latest episode of the Yahoo Finance Electionomics podcast.
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Have my eye on a brand new desert eagle!
Don’t forget the burn the country to the ground threat on July 4.
Well, only because they will get 200 million votes in California.
If Biden and his Squad win, (through obvious vote fraud) the armed forces will be under the control of the anarchist Marxists.
What will we do then?
You mean after they defund and disband our military? I'd say learn to speak Mandarin
I’m guessing that some version of this is going to happen. Specifically the Dems are going to gaslight the public with polls showing Joe as an incontrovertible shoo in as they ramp up fraud to unheard of heights, counting on the fraud to do the job. BUT because they are rage driven more than calculating it falls apart and they get caught. Both sides claim the high ground and hit the streets...
All I can say is that I have been and will continue to be more active in this election than at any prior time in my life. I cast my first vote in 1976.
Too bad for them. It’s the rules morons.
Kinda like in 2016?
That would be great! If it happens, we’ll have cameras ready! ;D
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Let the commies die in the street by the hundreds ...
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Thanks to California's "ballot harvesting" election rules, no Republican will ever again win the popular vote.
Yahoo is run by Yahoos.
I expect the Democrat/Left to go absolutely berserk when Trump is re-elected.
Ahhh, but to these Normal Americans vote? and do they outnumber the non-normal voters?
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These are the million dollar questions that won’t be answered until November.
You are probably not too far from being right.......
If the state gets in a really horrible situation, I bet the Dems allow a Republican to be Governor so they can blame them for it
The electoral college is the fundamental bastion of the original federalist conception of what the States were to be in the coming Union. Along with the provision that senators were to be selected by the States( not the people per se.) The States were to elect the President, and the Senate. The “people” were to select the House. And that’s it.
I finally found out who I was talking about. It was Bob Beckel.
Yep. I meant Hockey. :)
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