The election was rigged. The rigging failed.

[Tom Rinaldo]

88. For immediate outcry purposes, we should focus on the mail sabotage now to counter Trump's lies BUT

I fully agree with you that this needs to be done. As you point out though, it has been done before. This is a matter that the mainstream media, even generally liberal outfits, always seem very hesitant to jump on, it always gets delegated to a page ten story. I suspect that is because there may be influential people inside the Democratic Party also, who fear the unintended consequences that might flow from undermining public confidence in the accuracy and security of our election system.

My fervent hope is that forces will be mobilized now, most likely out of public sight, to confront all threats to election security. If any serious threats have their origins overseas, I would not expect the Biden administration to fully spill the beans in public Instead I would expect rapid covert retaliation from our security forces under Biden, coupled with the secret delivery to any and all foreign adversaries of explicit threats of even worse potential consequences should attacks on our Democracy continue.

As to domestic threats, all levels of government controlled by Democrats need to harden our defenses now as step one. Again, I suspect Democrats may not want to sound a loud public alarm, but that should not prevent quieter effective actions. I have a hard time believing that after all of these years of using electronic voting machines with internet interfaces that no one on our side has gathered any evidence on malevolent actors, even if it might not in all cases include hot smoking guns. The bind we might be in could be that Republicans are less concerned than we are about how a wide spread public panic about the legitimacy of voting could impact their chances for continued rule relative to ours. We need to not only have the goods on those who would rig elections, but an effective and ready to deploy fix to election vulnerabilities that the public can quickly rally to. Whatever, the time has long passed when this matter can be remotely thought of as a back burner issue.