Trump is planning to declare victory at midnight Nov 3rd based upon the early results that won’t include vote by mail ballots. Then he’ll urge his militia supporters to burn the remaining uncounted ballots. That’s the #TrumpCoupPlot and he’s basically fessed up to it already.
https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1308911719817842688
Trump’s scheme to get Republican legislatures to appoint Trump electors to the Electoral College will be a tough sell if it’s in defiance of the voters. But if his militia supporters can spoil or destroy enough ballots to call the entire vote tally into question it might work.
Ballot security and chain of custody of ballot boxes will be extremely important. But our best bet to avoid chaos is to be ahead in the vote tallies by midnight Nov 3, which means early voting in-person if you can.
This all sounds crazy, but we need to at least contemplate the possibility that Trump is crazy, as in narcissistic and incapable of accepting defeat.
It’s doubtful that even Trump appointed judges or military leaders would go along with a #TrumpCoupPlot but it wouldn’t take that many white supremacist militia types to spoil/burn/destroy hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots in places like Detroit, Philadelphia, etc.
This is not a drill but it doesn’t have to be a crisis. We can prevent a #TrumpCoupPlot by voting early and in-person if you can and working as poll workers to ensure smooth voting on Nov 3.
When the president of the United States says he will GET RID OF THE BALLOTS for his opponent it is not alarmist to sound the alarm.
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