How Not to Create Confidence in Elections

Judging by all the crazed Republicans around the country who are intent on making it more difficult for some people to vote, there seems to be no end to every attempt they are willing to make to ensure “confidence” in elections. Forget the lack of real evidence about the allegations of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election that our former President and his loyal cult followers have claimed and maintained ad nauseam. Never mind that the voting recounts conducted in the key electoral states only revealed that this past election was one of the most secure in our nation’s history. Let’s overlook all the wild partisan attempts to find missing votes or illegal activities at polling places to support Trump’s “big lie”. According to the Republicans who have been obsessed with insuring election integrity, everything under the sun has to be done to remove any speck of doubt among their party’s unhappy and dissatisfied voters when elections don’t go their way. This political rabbit hole, of course, has no reasonable end to it. At some point, we have to realize that instilling confidence among irrational and paranoid people is a hopeless pursuit. But evidently, this is not the case when you are a Republican politician seeking to gain votes from the disbelieving and disgruntled in your party. How else do you explain the justifications for all the new voting restrictions the GOP has been hell-bent to enact? You have to wonder if conservative voters will continue to be duped by these duplicitous Republicans who keep feeding suspicions about non-existent, yet supposedly rampant voter fraud in order to restore confidence in our elections. This political charade is particularly difficult to understand in a state like Texas where Republicans have won most elections handily. All their partisan voter law shenanigans are only undermining the confidence they claim to be inspiring in our state elections. Before we know it, these same power-hungry Republicans will be eroding public confidence in the science about climate change, in the mainstream media, in the truth about America’s history, and in the patriotism of any Democrat. Maybe it’s time for Democrats to cry voter fraud and to contest every future election in this predominately Republican voting state or in any election that doesn’t yield a party victory for the Democratic underdogs.