The election is safe and secure. Don't believe the Republicans lies, don't disenfranchise youself
Look, I am aware that US elections aren't run 100% perfectly. There are issues and archaic rules that cause problems. But overall, the election is safe and secure. The one person who benefits if you believe it can be easily stolen or compromised is Donald Trump. He wants you to be discouraged and think there is no point in voting because you think he has total power to corrupt the election. He doesn't. He can fuck with it around the margins slightly but otherwise, we are as safe to vote now and to trust the election results as we were in 2008, 2012, fucking 1956, 1992, 2018, whenever. Nothing has changed other than some bluster and empty, vague threats by a con man with his back to the wall. Vote on election day, vote early in person, vote by mail. Just vote and know it will be a free and fair election. Have faith and don't let Trump's lies and threats ever influence or discourage you. That's all he has are mind games and cons.
On to election day and onward to a Biden presidency!
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His only chance is to try to make us give up and not vote. He don’t know us, do he? 
So good to see a rational retort to the doom and gloomers. Putin is gonna hate this!
Now gotta get back to work encouraging peeps to vote.
Weeks (?) ago and was trying to balance that with the current concerns and it wasn't working.
Thanks for posting that. 
But you're absolutely right that nobody should let the prospect of that keep them from voting. It's all the more reason to get out there and make sure we deliver a clear repudiation of this corrupt and indecent administration.
The other issue at play in a story like this, and the other reason that it's worth covering, is that even if trump's efforts to discredit the election fail in the legal sense and biden is installed, the crap that he would pull would provide more fodder to a certain segment of the right which has become increasingly comfortable with engaging in disruptive and violent tactics against people they see as their enemies. And that elevates a particular social disorder/chaos that isn't going to go away immediately once Biden is inaugurated. And that's a problem. It becomes an even bigger problem if elected republican party officials are willing to explicitly or tacitly support the attempts to undermine the results. That prospect is much likelier in a closely contested election. If, on the other hand, Biden gets a 100+ EV margin and a significant popular vote margin, and the likes of Joni Ernst and Dan Sullivan and David Perdue and (god willing!) Lindsey Graham are sent packing, then there's not nearly as much cover for such fringe voices to emerge into the mainstream.
Which, again of course, is all the more reason to vote (and DONATE!) so that, as you say, we can march "On to election day and onward to a Biden presidency!" 
To start with, all this shit is not going to convince Democrats to not vote. That is bullshit, a republican talking point. THEY want us to give up, and will do everything to convince us it is a lost cause. We are PISSED TO THE MAX. We ARE going to crawl over the proverbial broken glass, to vote.
Then look at the ballots. There are two ways for there to be ballots. Electronic, and real/paper.
If you think Putin and his intelligence/computer hackers haven't figured a way to work the electronic vote, you probably still believe the russians only broke into to two US states' electronic voter systems/databases during the 2016 election. We now know they targeted ALL 50 states, with varying degrees of success. Only THEY know if they obtained info on how to actually do real damage. But we can probably safely assume they are WAY ahead of us in that arena. They have had 4 years to hone their abilities. What have WE been doing, other than to say "that's not possible". And how has THAT tactic worked for us so far?
As far as mail-in ballots, DeJoy wasn't put there for shits and giggles. He did what he needed to do. Yes the courts said stop. Yes the courts said to undo the damage.
What has he actually done? Nothing. No destroyed mail routers have been re-assembled. Mail is still backed up.
We are now aware of this and know what to look out for, but to blithely infer that everything will be ok, is ludicrous. It will NOT be a free and fair election.
The question is how to address THAT little detail.
Sure, we must GOTV, and be very wary. The party should have lawyers and counter-poll watchers in every polling location. We must be on maximum alert for any and every possible way of cheating, suppression, intimidation.
But after all the electronic votes are tallied, they still are reported electronically to state voting headquarters. NO ONE knows what can be done to those little electron data bits by hackers who have been training YEARS for this very scenario. Will the final votes going into the states' total tallies be compared to each and every individual touch screen/scanner? Too many assume that "those numbers can't be altered". There should be obvious discrepancies if the numbers don't match. I am afraid we won't even check until it is too late.
No. I am NOT believing this election is going to be anywhere close to "free" and "fair".
And we have to be prepared for whatever comes after the steal.
So what are his latest outrages?
Bypass the ballots, go to the supreme court. A court he is using every ounce of leverage he has, to stack.
Force republican state legislatures to "fix" the electors, so he will win.
Then of course there is his "piece de resistance", working his knuckledragging, racist, white supremacists supporters into a frenzy, causing them to take to the streets and TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY. (While we democrats sit idly by, with great wailing and gnashing of teeth, wringing our cowardly hands... because we are...... COWARDS)
OK. You win. Nothing to worry about. 
rant/off
