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1. mrguyorama ◴[] No.42209753[source]
I think it's probable we will see some genuine election tampering from this election. There are lots of government workers who believe his claims that Democrats cheat and genuinely believe they MUST cheat to "balance" that out. There are on the order of tens of actual cases of voter fraud these past couple elections, mostly done by republicans, not making a meaningful difference, and mostly just being kind of ignorant about how the process works.

However, we will not see this election overturned. 75ish million Americans really did vote for Trump, and really do want him back in the white house, despite how demonstrably dumb that is. Their votes were legitimate and shall be honored by the US, even if it kills us.

There are tiny bubbles of people very insistent that "this couldn't have happened" essentially. They are convinced that a million people voting for a democratic senator while also voting for Trump can only be signs of fraud. They are a little delusional.

This happened in 2020 when thousands of people couldn't process the fact that, yes Maine voted for Collins again even though she's spineless and soulless and threw away everything that made her special and like our state. They went away when it was clear there was no evidence.