Ignoring the Vote

I wrote a blog post early this year about the idea that the real aim of all the bogus Trump lawsuits was to set up further voter suppression initiatives (with the Supreme Court's approval) for the next election. The idea was to create "doubts" which then require "reforms" with the true goal of keeping the wrong type of  person from voting.

While I still think they Republicans will do this, it is also somewhat true that minorites have found ways to come out and vote anyway (with some exceptions). So now I think we are starting to see movement by the Trumpies controlling the state parties of finding ways to gain control of the voting commissions and other state entities that could have the power to actually overturn the results. They were hoping to get the courts to do it but without success.  So instead, they will empower some of these canvassing boards or other groups to actually not certify the results and throw the election into the state legislatures.

The idea is to go ahead and let the people vote, but if we don't like the result, we now have the infrastructure in place to overturn it. "Suppressing" the vote didn't work (before and after the election) so we'll try "ignoring" the vote instead. They may not be successful, but there's no doubt in my mind that they will try to do exactly that.