Imagine the frustration. After successfully stealing the 2016 Election for Donald Trump--with every expectation for success again--the whole thing falls apart, just months before the election.
Despite Russian bots frantically pushing false narratives toward unsuspecting users, who accept as truth what feels right to them, regardless of its validity, the huge impact this had in 2016 might not be repeatable in an election with a process that might go on for days, if not weeks.
Even as Hannity and the like prepare to bombard the media with falsehoods, hoping to create enough distrust, for just long enough, to get another 77,000 folks in just the right places to once again put Trump in the Oval, Covid-19 showed up and made a real mess of things. The plan Trump has been counting on might not work so well in a drawn out process where timing is, well, a little off.
It’s been ages since news about securing voting machines against hackers was even discussed in the media. For all we know voting machines in key states have already been hacked and are just waiting until they can count those votes cast for Biden as Trump votes.
And then, boom! The worst-case scenario for Donald J. Trump: massive mail-in voting. This could be a problem, given that mail-in voting takes place over a much longer time-span that in-person voting. The timing isn’t precise enough for another Comey-like announcement to work its magic.
There goes their ability to target a specific election date to publicize false and damaging information that will get into people’s heads before they vote, but not far enough in advance to be disproved until after the vote.
Then there’s that pesky paper trail that will allow us to know how people voted, even if machine hacking turns out to be successful. Seems like this is a lose/lose for Trump any way you look at it.
So when Trump rails against the fraud and inefficiency of mail-in voting, I recall something my step-dad always said, “The excuse is rarely the reason.”
Trump’s excuse for not wanting mail-in ballots is he thinks they are prone to fraud. The reason he doesn’t want them is because they do more than any other type of voting to discourage fraud--unless you destroy the Postal Service first.
Then you can’t have mail-in voting, can you?
