“It’s easier for a lot of people to just stick their fingers in their ears, going ‘la la la -if we lost it must be fraud’.”
I agree that many here would rather keep bleating about voter fraud than look at reality. I even understand that because the reality is depressing. Conservatives do not make up the majority anymore. It’s easier to blame sinister (mostly non-existent) elements than face the reality that the world has changed and most of us are old now.
Lousy education system and constant propaganda take their toll.
It’s adapt or die.
I would bet that within 25 years it will be *required* to vote.
I am just amazed that so many conservatives - and I think we’re conservatives because we RECOGNIZE REALITY as regards human nature and political systems - can’t or won’t face the fact that mail-in balloting, absentee balloting of every type, ‘ballot harvesting’, and eventually online voting are going to happen. Adapt or perish. That genie ain’t going back in the bottle, at least anywhere more than a few rural very red districts.
The only path forward is to combine some sort of voter ID (electronic) with any and all things that make it easier to vote.
Or to have issues (and the popular position on them) that are singularly important to 51 percent of all potential voters.
BTW, did you notice that Republicans never cry ‘fraud’ when they win? And Democrats start looking for it really hard when we win?