2020 stolen election time! There's been some rather big developments with my favorite cute little hobby horse. I haven't had the time to make a deep-dive write-up, but it's has already been extensively reported on elsewhere (e.g. this post by Jacob Sullum
I'm not sure if this counts, but before the election I thought there was a chance that mass-harvested mail-in ballots could be a factor, and given that I also believe that these types of schemes would be more likely to succeed in urban/high population density areas, that it would tend to benefit the Democratic party more. An important corollary to this is that I believed neither party is above cheating in the same way the ocean is not above the sky - they would both try it if they could, but only the D's were in a position to do this effectively. I believe that mass harvesting did not occur, based on the negative evidence that if it had, MAGA sleuths would have found evidence of it by now. So, the most important thing I have had to change my mind on, is that I no longer believe the Democratic party has a sizeable minority of people in it who would organize vote-stealing schemes in Federal elections, even if they claim to think the election is vitally important to the existence of life on Earth. If they didn't or couldn't do it in 2020, I doubt they will in the next 20 years or so. So I guess I've had to reject an easy cynicism and think better of (at least some of) my fellow citizens, and let me tell you, I don't like it one bit.
I'm not sure if this counts, but before the election I thought there was a chance that mass-harvested mail-in ballots could be a factor, and given that I also believe that these types of schemes would be more likely to succeed in urban/high population density areas, that it would tend to benefit the Democratic party more. An important corollary to this is that I believed neither party is above cheating in the same way the ocean is not above the sky - they would both try it if they could, but only the D's were in a position to do this effectively. I believe that mass harvesting did not occur, based on the negative evidence that if it had, MAGA sleuths would have found evidence of it by now. So, the most important thing I have had to change my mind on, is that I no longer believe the Democratic party has a sizeable minority of people in it who would organize vote-stealing schemes in Federal elections, even if they claim to think the election is vitally important to the existence of life on Earth. If they didn't or couldn't do it in 2020, I doubt they will in the next 20 years or so. So I guess I've had to reject an easy cynicism and think better of (at least some of) my fellow citizens, and let me tell you, I don't like it one bit.