Donald Trump's election mayhem is coming: Journalists must be ready to fight back

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Donald Trump's election mayhem is coming: Journalists must be ready to fight back
We know Trump will try to swamp this election in lies, rumors and lawsuits. Political media must be prepared

DAN FROOMKIN
OCTOBER 30, 2020 11:00AM


(Salon) As it becomes blindingly obvious that Donald Trump is going to fight to throw out any ballot counted after midnight on Nov. 3, it is ever more urgent that journalists be prepared to explain to the public why there's no practical, legal or moral rationale for his demands.

An important first step in this prebuttal will be to get Republican and Democratic election officials — particularly in swing states — on the record saying that there is nothing risky or dangerous about counting every legally submitted ballot, even if it takes a few days.

Trump's claims that mail-in voting will be massively fraudulent, and that votes not counted by election night are somehow wildly more susceptible to cheating, are actually far beyond even Republican norms. They simply don't make sense — and state election officials will tell reporters that, if they ask.

Credit for this idea belongs to Paul Bernstein, a former editor in the Washington Post's Metro section. He wrote in an email:

It's unavoidable that many Trump supporters will see a conspiracy if key states shift from red to blue once the mail ballots have been counted. But this paranoia may be less widespread if state election officials (especially Republican ones) make statements NOW, before any votes have been counted, vouching for the integrity of the vote-counting process. And they won't issue such statements unless journalists press them on this point.

Trump, meanwhile, continues to say what were traditionally the quiet parts out loud: "Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd," he tweeted on Oct. 26. (Twitter flagged this as possibly misleading.) ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/donald-trumps-election-mayhem-is-coming-journalists-must-be-ready-to-fight-back/

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[Deb]

2. IRS tax forms need to be SENT on the last day due, rather than RECIEVED by the the IRS

Is there some legal basis for voting ballots to not enjoy the same? I think most people understand voting results are tied to income.

[Volaris]

3. Fine then. Let's just move to online secure voting.

If my tax filings, credit card purchases and healthcare data can all be digitized and still secure, so can my vote.

Fuck this bullshit argument; let's throw it back in their fascist faces for once.