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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The next election is about one thing, OP.  How do feel about democracy?  Is it important to you? Or would you be cool with supporting an authoritarian transition? [/quote]

Unbelievable. [/quote]

It is unbelievable but it’s where we are.  Democracy is having knock down drag out fights but then when the voting happens - accepting the outcomes, sharpening your message, building broader coalitions, and coming back to fight another day.  If we agreed on nothing else as Americans, we have   accepted this.  But MAGA has upended this fundamental axiom.  That is what the basis of election denial is - the election didn’t go your way so pretend something was wrong with the election.  It’s natural for people to be upset and to look for reasons that their candidate lost - I was upset in 2016 so I understand the urge. But pro-democracy candidates, even when sad/angry etc, will accept the results for the good of the democratic system.  And that action on their part will keep their supporters in line.

We see it happening again in the intra party fighting in the House.  The ultra right wing do not have the votes to control the House.  But they cannot accept that outcome.  So they try to upend it by removing McCarthy and then pressuring people to vote for Jordan (nobody was threatened for not voting for Scalise).

If we want to keep democracy, MAGA has to be crushed.  Because it’s authoritarian in nature.  Then you can go back to thinking about the policies that matter to you (abortion, taxes, whatever). [/quote]

In your opinion,  what is the correct method for ensuring election integrity,  and what should be done if interference is suspected?[/quote]
What they're already doing...keeping paper ballots so that a hand recount can eliminate any errors potentially introduced by voting machines. There will always be a few "dead people voting" which is not actual fraud - just people who vote early then die before election day. But that doesn't happen on a large enough scale to change anything. There's a reason the "stop the steal" crowd attacked Dominion and Smartmatic - any fraud significant enough to swing an election would involve their machines.[/quote]

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