As with everything these days the devil is in the details. I haven't paid super close attention to the election fraud and personally have a hard time believing that there was an algorithm or something systematically changing votes.
However, you cannot deny that the rules around ballot boxes were different this year. Drop boxes, mail ins, etc there were a lot of changes this year that were not "normal" and people have a right to challenge whether those changes were ok or not. I don't think that is a conspiracy theory or anything crazy.
I agree with you. The country is hyper partisan and any election is going to be decided by a percentage point or two. The “fraud” was the executive branches in the states over stepping their constitutions and changing statute through exec orders.
An election is really just a mechanism to gauge approximately how much of the populace supports one candidate over the other. We try to make it as accurate as possible using a ballot, but it’s still never 100% for a whole slew of reasoning ranging from outright fraud to human error. And every other election, both sides offset one another with their errors and we can get close enough to who the actual winner is. Mail in ballots are harder to generally authenticate. Only a handful of states did them before covid and spent years putting their system in place to make it workable. You can’t introduce something like that at such a scale and not introduce things like double counting, or invalidating legitimate votes. But the system is such that, they’d much rather double count than invalidated. And then add in for flavor corrupt election officials here or there that find and lose boxes of ballots all the time.
The difference this go around was the mail in ballot, and the republicans did not prepare for it. State legislatures determine election law, but governors bypassed special sessions in most cases and exec ordered special conditions allowing the mail in ballot. Legally you can’t change statute with an exec order, but whatever... Republicans couldn’t do a whole lot legally for no judge would put a stay on mail in voting, and look like they are denying the vote to millions of people scared of the virus.
Instead of accepting the situation, Trump, like an idiot, bitched about fraud before the first ballot was cast. He scared people into not voting by mail, and those same people didn’t physically show up at the ballot box. That did far more harm than anything else. It had a double impact, the first being less votes/ turnout, and the second being errors in accuracy skewed dem.
I’m mostly annoyed they are using the Arizona shit, which has already been certified so you can’t do anything about it, as a fundraising tool. If Trump had actually used his god damn brain in the first place, we wouldn’t have a situation where we are playing catch up to the Dems.