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Andrew Paquette, PhD's avatar

Here is a general addendum to this post:

The Deep State has clearly been running elections for some time now, probably not less than 15 years or so. They seem to have mostly helped Democrats, but it looks like they've helped not a few untrustworthy Republicans as well.

That said, our Electoral College is a fantastic safeguard against the type of illegal interventions we've been seeing. The reason is that it limits exposure at the federal level by making each state independent. Therefore, once a threshhold is reached in any given state, more fraud in the same state accomplishes nothing.

Honest states can counterbalance dishonest ones, and seem to have done exactly that, though the number of such states has been eroding. At the local level, it is more difficult to control, because the safeguards disappear once you get into state politics. However, there are ways for federal controls to affect local elections.

The problem has been lack of will to have honest elections among many officials until recently. Trump's recent efforts have the potential to turn the tide, and certainly are trying to do that.

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Justin's avatar

I wonder why there is such fear on the part of politicians. They must know who's behind it if they are. Or maybe they've been "selected" themselves, and they don't want an investigation to show that.

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