The institutional stance on election fraud says the US:
- has the highest-stakes election in the world
- is basically the only democratic country in the world that doesn't make you show an ID to vote
- Miraculously has zero voter fraud
That sounds totally retarded man
It is extremely reasonable for someone to learn all that and just go "wow, my guy probably lost cuz they rigged it then!"
With nothing to suggest fraud whatsoever, the default position one should have on a high-stakes election that fails to meet global baseline security standards is:
"It's probably rigged"
Even if it's somehow true and there's miraculously zero fraud, it's such an optics disaster it should be changed just to prevent US elections from looking like a joke. You cannot LARP as leader of the free world while failing to meet the election security standards of the third world
The fact anyone gets away with defending the lack of US voter ID laws is INSANE
They only got away with it bc half the country pretends to think their argument makes sense cuz they know the fraud helps their guy and they got that half to call the other half racist if they disagree
(Which is ALSO INSANE)
This is like marrying a girl from tinder without meeting up first to make sure she looks cute. THE GOVERNMENT IS CATFISHING YOU
THIS IS A SCAM

I don't even care about politics outside making tweets now but I think about this every time I have to show an ID and I'm just like "what the FUCK, man!"
Insane, cartoonish scam. If I'd known how gullible you guys are I woulda become a crypto scammer TWENTY YEARS sooner

"The research says there's no election fraud lukas!" Any group coordinated enough to pull this off was smart enough to read your reuters write-up on the methods used to detect election fraud and make sure their scam doesn't trigger any, man. Come on
You can't prove the absence of a thing. Especially when you have less info than the people doing the thing in the first place!
Also fwiw there totally has been research claiming there was fraud but it's always DEBUNKED IMMEDIATELY by FACTS and LOGIC and maybe a little CONFISCATION OF THEIR DOMAIN NAME. Which probably sends a pretty strong message that the rest should get in line
"Woahhh man that's like, a conspiracy"
Ya the govt would never harass institutions who claim they came into power illegitimately that would be against free speech man

THEY COORDINATED NATIONAL MEETUPS WHERE THEY PROTESTED BY BURNING DOWN THE CITY AND EXPLODING COP CARS BUT THEY SIMPLY RESPECT OUR DEMOCRACY TOO MUCH TO INTERFERE
THE PROFESSORS WHO TAUGHT THEIR STUDENTS THE FIRE-PROTESTING STUFF DID STUDIES PROVING THIS IN TOTALLY GOOD FAITH

IT SHOULD BE A STATES RIGHTS ISSUE!! WE SHOULD LET ALL THE STATES USE DIFFERENT SECURITY STANDARDS IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS! ALSO WE SHOULD LET THEM ISSUE BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND TELL US HOW MANY CITIZENS THEY HAVE TO DETERMINE THEIR IMPACT IN THESE ELECTIONS

THERE'S NO WAY STATES COULD FRAUDULENTLY MAINTAIN THE EXISTENCE OF A PERSON WHO DOESN'T EXIST DUDE!!
THAT WOULD REQUIRE CONTROL OF LIKE, STATE UTILITY AND HOUSING RECORDS, AND SOME OTHER SHIT KEPT ON GOVT DATABASES THAT NOBODY EXCEPT THE STATE CAN CHECK

Anyway, you guys get it. All systems can be cheated
If you genuinely think the people maintaining a system can't cheat it without setting off the cheater-alarms they also maintain... you are too pure for what this world is gonna do to you
I'm sorry and good luck

COMMUNITY NOTES:
NOBODY HAS EVER COMMITTED FRAUD IN AMERICA, ONLY RUSSIA
- SCIENCE, 2024. HARVARD YALE MIT REUTERS OBAMA