Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.
...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).
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Some of the specific claims Trump - in particular the Dominion voting machine conspiracy theory - almost certainly qualify as delusional, and the main reason why they might not is that Trump could have known they were false all along, making them dishonest rather than delusional. IIRC Trump made various claims to have won a landslide, which would also count as delusional - the plausible Trump win scenarios were squeakers.
The "bog standard mainstream GOP" claim that the normal run of petty incompetence that we see in American elections represents co-ordinated fraud by Democrats on a large enough scale to flip multiple states with 5-figure leads (which is what would have been needed to steal the 2020 presidential election) is clearly false and clearly sincerely held by significant numbers of sane people, so whether or not it is "delusional" is a boring argument about the meaning of words.
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