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It would seem that the first step would be to delegitimize those election results and any ensuing laws or orders from those officials.

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The problem is that if/when the Democrats win, the Republicans will use the same tactics and delegitimize those election results. We are effectively living in two forked realities with no way to rejoin them.

In some other countries, foreign election monitors are routinely invited to monitor elections. They aren't all-seeing or all-knowing, but they can at least highlight irregularities in the voting process.

What type of issue would you expect these monitors to prevent or uncover?

Election monitors make sense in third-world countries, where elections are administrated by corrupt government officials and literal ballot-box-stuffing is a possibility. But in the US, civilian volunteers with known party affiliations administer elections, and many states cast ballots electronically.

If you’re really concerned about the integrity of our elections at a ballot-box level, the best thing you could do would be to volunteer to administer elections in your local precinct.

It's an extra check on the whole system with a known cost. People could voluntarily go on exchange trips to other countries when they have their elections. If foreign election monitors state that some places didn't have enough ballot boxes, then it will be more difficult to ignore that sort of problem as business as usual.

If it’s a problem of election fraud then we can fix this in 2020 with all paper ballots and a restoration of the voting rights act.

Unfortunately violence might be necessary if fair elections can’t be guaranteed.

Then de-legitimization might become a weapon of its own right...

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