If your concern is public perception of election rigging, it seems bizarre to worry about the optics of the “result” changing after midnight on election night, but not about the optics of... thousands of ballots being thrown out because USPS delivered them late.
https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1320874597617668098
It is, after all, hardly unprecedented for an election result to be uncertain for a few days. Or for early returns to trend one way, only to be overwhelmed by later ones going the other way. Why would that provoke more public suspicion than refusing to count validly cast ballots?
It is hard not to suspect this strange picture is the result of Kavanaugh’s own social circle very disproportionately comprising people concerned with only one kind of imagined “vote rigging” scenario.
It seems at LEAST as plausible that large numbers of discarded votes in a swing state would, if Trump won by a narrow margin, provoke outcry & suspicion that the USPS, headed by a major Trump donor, had been manipulated to delay urban ballots...
But that’s not a scenario you’re likely to hear about on Fox, so maybe Kavanaugh doesn’t imagine it being an issue.
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