Voter suppresion/"stealing the election" megathread

[Granite City]

Inspired by this article: "Getting from November to January"

First, we are facing an “election season,” not an “Election Day.” Given that there will be unprecedented numbers of provisional, absentee, and mail-in ballots, many of which may take days to be counted, it is very possible we will not know the results of the election on the evening of November 3rd. What’s more, in many parts of the country, these so-called overtime votes will break disproportionately towards the Democrats, a process referred to as the “Blue Shift.”What this means is that it’s very possible that Trump could be leading on Election Night but would see that lead evaporate as the overtime votes are counted. This is precisely why Trump himself recently declared that he wants the results called on Election Night—i.e. before the Democratic-leaning late votes can be counted.

This longish period for vote counting opens up opportunities to manipulate the process and to sow doubt and confusion about the election results. In our scenario exercises, Team Trump attempted to claim that the late votes were fraudulent, and in one case tried to have the Department of Justice work with the Post Office to seize mailed in ballots to prevent them from being counted. In other cases, election officials were doxxed in order to intimidate them from going to work, and “second amendment types” showed up at vote counting sites to try to prevent late votes from being counted.

This very much reminds me of the infamous "Brooks Brothers riot" in 2000, where GOP operatives were flown in to disrupt the recount ahead of a court-mandated deadline and stole the election for Bush. I think the odds are relatively high that Republicans will try something of the sort again.

A plausible scenario for 2020 might be: despite losing Florida, Trump is ahead in WI+MI+PA on election night, with days of absentee ballot counting yet to begin. Trump refuses to concede, and claims "Democrat-run cities" are trying to steal the election by counting illegal votes and the count should be stopped. Far right agitators, possibly armed, attack, intimidate and disrupt counts at key polling stations, causing a delay. After two weeks with no certified result, a suit is kicked up to the Supreme Court, which in a partisan 5-4 decision orders counting to cease. When Democratic governors refuse to comply and further violence at counting stations occurs, Trump federalises the National Guard of the disputed states to end the counts and disperse massive demonstrations. The states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania refuse to certify any electoral votes in protest and in a contingent election in the House Trump is re-elected President of the United States.

Not very likely to happen, of course, but on the edge of plausibility. I hope Democrats are already thinking about what they are going to do if the election is close enough that Trump tries to pull out all the stops to dispute and steal the election result.

Foreign agitator from the UK tries to influence the
american election.

Why are you commenting on a country which
you do not live in and trying to influence their
election foreign agitator ?

Clear British Collusion for London Biden

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36219612

So if the OP just says that he's not influencing the election, that should be good enough for you then?

[Granite City]

DOJ pulled the release:

https://twitter.com/JessicaHuseman/status/1309221721963204610?s=20

It's here now: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/revised-statement-us-attorney-freed-inquiry-reports-potential-issues-mail-ballots