BTRTN: How The Election Gets Stolen... and How We Stop It. [View all]

Born To Run The Numbers examines the myriad of ways that Republicans may try to undermine the election, the underlying goals of these activities, and why we should all be extremely nervous:

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/08/btrtn-how-election-gets-stolen-and-how.html

Excerpts: "Don’t start reading this at 11:30 p.m. It's likely to freak you out and make it hard to sleep, and if you do, you’re going to have nightmares. As my old Williams College history professor used to say: 'Who needs fiction when reality is this crazy?'...
"...in order to ensure that Joe Biden is sworn in as President of the United States on January 20, 2021, he is not just going to have to win a number of those big swing states, but he is going to have to win them by real and comfortable margins … or else there is the very real possibility that the Republicans will be able to muddy the waters just enough to create a Constitutional catastrophe. In a worst case scenario we will examine, Donald Trump loses the popular vote and the Electoral College… and still keeps the Presidency...
"Now comes the ground-zero impact of Palast's theory: (if)Wisconsin’s Republican Legislature then decides that the election is 'contaminated' by fraud, and refuses to ratify the election, forbidding Biden electors from convening with the Electoral College. Denied those ten votes, Biden has only 268 votes, Trump has 260, and ten votes go uncounted. Neither candidate wins a majority of the Electoral College. The Twelfth Amendment is invoked... "
"In every state in which the margin of victory is narrow, expect that on Wednesday, November 4, a fusillade of lawsuits will come thundering forth... The only way to bury the lawsuits is to render them moot before they are filed… to win by such a margin that the disputed ballots in one polling place do not change the results of the county, that a dispute in one county does not change the result of a state, that the results of one state do not change the outcome of the Electoral College..."