We have similar issues in U.K. ballots, albeit on a vastly smaller scale. Whenever loud people don’t get the result they want there’s always been complaints of irregularities.
Leaving postal ballots aside for a moment, I’ve never understood why you don’t need to take ID or at the very least, your voting card when visiting a polling station. What’s the point of printing and posting them out?
Coming back to Trump, isn’t it amazing how easily he got people to swallow his conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence?
ID laws are considered voter suppression by some. In many states, non driver ID is gotten from the same place as your driver's license. If you've been to one , it costs money and ,can take hours. In many cases, location are far from poor neighborhoods and not easily accessible without a car. For people who have no money, no car and no means to get to that location, it will prevent them from voting. It may make little sense in the UK were you can get a driving license by mail, but it can be a problem here.
While there are instances of voter fraud, it's usually a fractional amount and in the case of these elections, people voting R were caught.
As far as how easily people are swallowing this information. You need to live here to appreciate the media machine that channels this information. It's everywhere, all the time.
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