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Hey Gracie, your thread here helped to clarify something for me I think. I believe I now understand better why Trump supporters are as upset as they are about his election loss.
Judge rules Virginia’s late election law changes for mail-in ballots were illegal - Washington Examiner
A Virginia Circuit Court judge ruled that the state’s last-minute changes to election law allowing mail-in ballots to arrive late without a postmark were illegal."This is a big win for the Rule of Law," said Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams, who represented Frederick...www.washingtonexaminer.com
So...will it even make a difference now?
A Virginia Circuit Court judge ruled that the state’s last-minute changes to election law allowing mail-in ballots to arrive late without a postmark were illegal.
"This is a big win for the Rule of Law," said Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams, who represented Frederick County electoral board member Thomas Reed in the case. "This consent decree gives Mr. Reed everything he requested — a permanent ban on accepting ballots without postmarks after Election Day and is a loss for the Virginia bureaucrats who said ballots could come in without these protections."
I think many of them were thinking of the U.S. Election in much the same way that some sporting events between two teams are conducted. If a member of one of the teams is found to have cheated, we can use baseball as an example - taken performance enhancing drugs, modifying the equipment, spying on the other team's signals, etc., then their team forfeits the game and and they and/or their team can possibly be banned from participating for x number of games or a season (I'm not a sports fan so I hope I'm articulating this correctly).
I think this is what Trump supporters were expecting to happen when ANY instance of something untoward was uncovered, that the fact that this occurred meant that there was "cheating" going on and the team who had "won" was now disqualified and the "win" given to the opponent.
This is not how our elections work and it's certainly not how our courts work. The net sum of the harm caused by "the cheating" has to be substantial enough so that had it not occurred there would have been a different outcome.
Nothing that has been brought to light or to the attention of the courts would have changed the election outcome. And certainly asking the courts to 'disqualify' Biden and give the election win to 'Trump' because there were scattered incidents of impropriety is not a proper remedy in light of the harm alleged. The remedy in the case cited in your OP is to remove those vote from the final tally however that small amount will not give Trump a lead and change the amount of electoral votes cast for Biden.
And speaking of such, Trump supporters often parrot one of his lies stating that he won the 2020 election in a landslide. Apparently he also said this about the 2016 election. None of them seem to care or realize that they're using the term incorrectly but I'm not sure how a person can win the electoral vote yet lose the popular vote and still claim to have won in a landslide. Wouldn't a landslide win mean that they won both the electoral AND popular vote?
