some people were conned. A small percentage
Most of us 75 million people believe the democrat's capitalized on COVID to allow for voting for those who otherwise would not take the time to vote because they had better things to do.
And whereas many of us are frustrated because our elected leaders refused to look into the possibility of wrong doing, and they left it up to the courts.... only a fool would think a judge wants her or his name to go down as the one who initiated the overturning of an election
Republicans, for the past decade, have been focused on expanding their own base, with absentee mail in voting. It's been fruitful for the republican states that have expanded their access to it in their election laws, like the State of Florida.
It's our constitutional right, for we the people to choose who represents us in our govt.
We all should be rejoicing, that we have finally, found a way that we can easily execute our right to vote, instead of the barricades and hurdles to fight through and jump.
Those people who didn't vote before but could via absentee, were not lazy (generalized word).... They were blue collar workers, people on an hourly wage who needed every dime of their pay, people who have to take buses to work or get lifts from coworkers to make it there, people with no cars to easily get to polling places without losing hours of work....people attending college out of state....
Our insistence of voting on a workday, a Tuesday, without it being a Holiday....has been a purposeful way, to disenfranchise these people, where as I As a white collar worker got paid for my time off to vote as a benefit, and I automatically was registered to vote with a nod, when getting my drivers license.
Absentee/mail in voting is a positive.....for our Democratic, Constitutional Republic.....democrats should not be shunned for expanding it....It's a good thing!
Republicans have A LOT of blue collar workers they could pick up as well along with the elderly and disabled republicans who can not easily make it to the polls anymore.
COVID was a reason to expand access, a legitimate reason.... and you will find that both Republican and Democratic legislatures expanded it in the primaries.
Even in these battle ground states, the republicans expanded mail in voting....but they got creamed in the primary so they then went on a mission to try to take it back.....purely for political reasons, and Trump started his mission of saying the election was rigged, saying the absentee voting was a fraud, before the first vote was even cast, in the election.....
Right then the brainwashing of his flock that absentee votes are fraudulent and only votes in person and on election day should count....BEGAN.
So he later could proclaim himself the winner on election night, without absentee votes even opened yet! All the bull crap conspiracy of him winning but in the middle of the night votes just APPEARED for Biden.... when we knew all along the absentee votes, mostly all democratic votes in battleground states would not be counted until after election day votes.
How did we know that? His campaign had the Republican legislatures vote NO on authorizing those states, to be able to begin counting absentee votes earlier than election day.
This whole thing actually hurt him in the long run! (There is a God, and he heard my prayers, AMEN!)
He made millions of republican votes, out there to be had....disappear, by not considering the virus safety concerns of the elderly, who normally voted in person, by telling them, absentee voting was a fraud....They just didn't vote....
DEAR LORD!
That was long winded!
And I didn't even get to your other parts of your post!!
I'm taking a pause, and sending this first! My response to the other things will come after I take a break!