Ballots are flammable.

Do the math.

Let’s assume in the last election Trump got 10% to 15% of the vote, on average, when looking at the vote count in, say, the 10 bluest of the bluest voting districts across the USA.

Now look at the “overnight” vote count in those states that “suspended” voting over night. If the overnight vote count showed (even though it was suspended) that Trump received, say, 5% of the vote, on average, this would manifestly demonstrate that something fishy had occurred.

Anyway, just a thought experiment from an election denier.

No need to mention those voting districts that counted more votes than there were registered voters; you just don’t understand the “new math.”

“Democratic governors veto GOP election integrity bills despite provable election fraud issues;
“Many of the bills were passed by GOP-led state legislatures to remedy election fraud issues.”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/democratic-governors-veto-gop-election-integrity-bills-despite-election

Their sense of timing is impeccable.

It was my impression that SCOTUS dismissed the Texas case for lack of standing: I.e. no state has the right to tell any other state how its electoral votes shall be counted.

On the demise of the Great American experiment in self-government, I quote the opening paragraphs of the late Angelo Codevilla, retired Boston University poli sci prof, in late January of 2021, from American Greatness.com:

Texas v. Pennsylvania et al. did not deny setting rules for the 2020 election contrary to the Constitution. On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court discounted that. By refusing to interfere as America’s ruling oligarchy serves itself, the court archived what remained of the American republic’s system of equal justice. That much is clear.

“In 2021, the laws, customs, and habits of the heart that had defined the American republic since the 18th century are things of the past. Americans’ movements and interactions are under strictures for which no one ever voted. Government disarticulated society by penalizing ordinary social intercourse and precluding the rise of spontaneous opinion therefrom. Together with corporate America, it smothers minds through the mass and social media with relentless, pervasive, identical, and ever-evolving directives. In that way, these oligarchs have proclaimed themselves the arbiters of truth, entitled and obliged to censor whoever disagrees with them as systemically racist, adepts of conspiracy theories.

“Corporations, and the government itself, require employees to attend meetings personally to acknowledge their guilt. They solicit mutual accusations. While violent felons are released from prison, anyone may be fired or otherwise have his life wrecked for questioning government/corporate sentiment. Today’s rulers don’t try to convince. They demand obedience, and they punish.

“Russians and East Germans under Communists Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in the 1970s lived under less ruling class pressure than do today’s Americans. And their rulers were smart enough not to insult them, their country, or their race.

“In 2015, Americans could still believe they lived in a republic, in which life’s rules flow from the people through their representatives. In 2021, a class of rulers draws their right to rule from self-declared experts’ claims of infallibility that dwarf baroque kings’ pretensions.

“In that self-referential sense, the United States of America is now a classic oligarchy.”
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/19/clarity-in-trumps-wake/

WHAT, if anything, in these words has changed in the three years since?

Earth Day. And will we get an echo of the pandemic times, as Fox Business, NBCnews, and Bloomberg all report on the pressure on Biden to declare a state of national emergency over The Climate Crisis, and thus invoke dictatorial powers over us all?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/fascism-joe-biden-considering-declaring-national-climate-emergency/

YES. It can get worse.

“Stand up, you voracious, man-eating son of a bitch, stand up! There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you up and ate five of them. God damn you, I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead, as a warning against reducing the Democratic population of our state!”

Territorial Enterprise, October 21-24, 1865

[portion of letter from San Francisco written October 19, 1865]

BOB ROACH’S PLAN FOR CIRCUMVENTING A DEMOCRAT

Where did all these Democrats come from? They grow thicker and thicker and act more and more outrageously at each successive election. Now yesterday they had the presumption to elect S. H. Dwinelle to the Judgeship of the Fifteenth District Court, and not content with this, they were depraved enough to elect four out of the six Justices of the Peace! Oh, ‘Enery Villiam, where is thy blush! Oh, Timothy Hooligan, where is thy shame! It’s out. Democrats haven’t got any. But Union men staid away from the election – they either did that or else they came to the election and voted Democratic tickets – I think it was the latter, though the Flag will doubtless say it was the former. But these Democrats didn’t stay away – you never catch a Democrat staying away from an election. The grand end and aim of his life is to vote or be voted for, and he accommodates to circumstances and does one just as cheerfully as he does the other. The Democracy of America left their native wilds in England and Connaught to come here and vote – and when a man, and especially a foreigner, who don’t have any voting at home any more than an Arkansas man has ice-cream for dinner, comes three or four thousand miles to luxuriate in occasional voting, he isn’t going to stay away from an election any more than the Arkansas man will leave the hotel table in “Orleans” until he has destroyed most of the ice cream. The only man I ever knew who could counteract this passion on the part of Democrats for voting, was Robert Roach, carpenter of the steamer Aleck Scott, “plying to and from St. Louis to New Orleans and back,” as her advertisement sometimes read. The Democrats generally came up as deck passengers from New Or leans, and the yellow fever used to snatch them right and left – eight or nine a day for the first six or eight hundred miles; consequently Roach would have a lot on hand to “plant” every time the boat landed to wood – “plant” was Roach’s word. One day as Roach was superintending a burial the Captain came up and said:

“God bless my soul, Roach, what do you mean by shoving a corpse into a hole in the hill-side in this barbarous way, face down and its feet sticking out?”

“I always plant them foreign Democrats in that manner, sir, because, damn their souls, if you plant ’em any other way they’ll dig out and vote the first time there’s an election – but look at that fellow, now – you put ’em in head first and face down and the more they dig the deeper they’ll go into the hill.”

In my opinion, if we do not get Roach to superintend our cemeteries, enough Democrats will dig out at the next election to carry their entire ticket. It begins to look that way.

reprinted in The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2 1864-1865, (Univ. of California Press, 1981), pp. 313-14.