Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 6
Poll: As the 2026 midterm elections approach, just 23% of Americans are confident the vote will not be 'rigged'
As the administration raids county election offices, demands state voter files and tries to restrict voting via executive order, just 23% of Americans say they’re confident that November’s midterms will not be “rigged” in favor of certain candidates.
The other 77% either believe the voting will be rigged (33%) or say they’re not sure what to think (44%).
Likewise, 60% of Americans say Trump is “not likely to accept” a scenario in which Democrats "win enough seats in November to take control of the U.S. House or U.S. Senate” — while just 22% think he’d be likely to accept such a result. Notably, a majority of Republicans either agree that Trump is unlikely to accept a Democratic victory (34%) or say they’re not sure (24%).
...only half of all Americans have a passport; or that millions more either don’t have or can’t readily access their birth certificates.
As a result, the Brennan Center for Justice has estimated that requiring documentary proof of citizenship nationwide would block 21 million eligible voters from being able to cast ballots. When Kansas recently implemented its own version of the SAVE Act, it purged about 40 ineligible voters from its rolls — and prevented 31,000 eligible citizens (or about 12% of all applicants) from registering, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/politics/arti...Steve
No. of Recommendations: 4
What does "accepting" an election result mean?
Such a deliberately vague, "push poll" type of phrase.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says Trump (or anyone else) has to "accept" the results of an election for the election to be valid.
I don't "accept" that you're a sentient, rationale human being.
Big whoop, right?
No. of Recommendations: 11
What does "accepting" an election result mean?
Please see Nov ‘20 thru 1/6/21 for the meaning of “not accepting an election result”.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I don't "accept" that you're a sentient, rationale human being.
Big whoop, right?
Yeah, big whoop.
Because you don’t have a 30,000 member goon squad to enforce your opinion
No. of Recommendations: 9
Poll: As the 2026 midterm elections approach, just 23% of Americans are confident the vote will not be 'rigged'
Well, we're so used to it. It's ingrained in our politics. A voting requirement change with 4 months left to voting will skew the vote R, or a purge of voters with names from a list of convicted felons with because blacks have similar names, now latinos too. It's hum drum. Do any Euro countries have this tradition of screwing with voter requirements and registry with no time left for the average voter to check to see if they're still good to go? If Euros don't have this, then let's just make a law you can't alter anything within a year of election.
We're now making it so you can't count on getting a good postmark date if you drop it off. We make sure there are plenty of voting methods, booths, and ballots in white areas but sparse in the barrio. So much energy spent for white R dominance.
No. of Recommendations: 4
There's nothing in the Constitution that says Trump (or anyone else) has to "accept" the results of an election for the election to be valid.The question I would like to see in that survey is how many Repubs think their God and Savior Trump *should* ignore an election result, if he doesn't like it. God on Earth Trump has always treated elections like the "non-binding, advisory" votes on executive pay we see on proxies. I remember him in 2020, responding to questions whether he would abide by the vote of the people, with "I'll need to take a look at it". He is saying about the same thing now:
Trump Says He Will Accept the 2026 Midterm Results ‘If the Elections Are Honest’
President Donald Trump said he would accept the results of the midterms “if the elections are honest,” telling NBC’s Tom Llamas on Wednesday that if that proves not to be the case, “something else has to happen.”https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-acc...As in 2020, I expect Trump the Magnificent and Perfect to appoint himself the judge of whether the 26 vote is "honest", or not.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 12
Trump Says He Will Accept the 2026 Midterm Results ‘If the Elections Are Honest’
And we know, by definition as well as experience, that any election he loses is “rigged”.
And we will be inundated with breathless stories about illegal aliens bussed in to vote, crooked machines, crooked Election officials and Italian satellites controlling voting machines in Chicago.
Who knows? Victor Chavez may even make a re-appearance.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Hugo, not Victor.
Sorry bout that. After more than a decade, my recollection of dead foreign dictators’ first names grows fuzzy.
