Is A Vote For Republicans A Vote To Destroy Democracy?

Because it seems to have become part of the Republican platform to attack election integrity. In the last election, a lot of Republicans stood up and said the elections were fair and the results valid, but those Republicans are being systematically forced out at all levels. We won't have them in 2024. Allowing this to continue will destroy our democratic institutions in short order. Honestly, it is happening much faster than I would have thought possible.

How would voting for Republicans destroy future voting???

It's a paradox – can a democracy be overthrown democratically? Populists like Orban and autocrats like Erdogan have basically managed to do this.

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How would voting for Republicans destroy future voting???

Your answer shows how it could be accomplished by either party – by electing representatives who would agree to vote for laws that would limit access to the ballot. Currently Republicans seem particularly interested in restricting the hours and places that people can vote, in ways that appear to favor a higher partisan turnout.

First of all, everyone has the right to suggest that an election may have contained cheating and, in fact, this right is vital.

Second, the Democrats almost couldn't go five minutes during Trump's term without suggesting that there had been election tampering.

Also, the first time George W. Bush was elected...

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First of all, everyone has the right to suggest that an election may have contained cheating and, in fact, this right is vital.

It's also "vital" that these allegations are investigated and if found to be baseless, that these lies are exposed.

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Second, the Democrats almost couldn't go five minutes during Trump's term without suggesting that there had been election tampering.

Honestly, I don't recall this....

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Also, the first time George W. Bush was elected...

This is misleading because it was an election decided by the Supreme Court voting on partisan lines to protect the interests of one candidate.

So, according to you, allowing anyone to vote who wants to, but applying reasonable rules to make cheating harder, in most cases simply returning rules to their previous longstanding form, will destroy democracy.

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So, according to you, allowing anyone to vote who wants to, but applying reasonable rules to make cheating harder, in most cases simply returning rules to their previous longstanding form, will destroy democracy.

You left out what I said about partisanship. If you close precincts in a rural county and restrict the hours that the remaining ones stay open, that makes it more difficult for people with jobs or without transportation to vote. And if those people tend to be constituencies which vote for one party over the other you are, in effect, disenfranchising your opposition.

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I don't know what news you've been watching because I heard people suggest incessantly that the Russians meddled enough to alter the results.

...What I do remember is the "meddling" that took place on social media; it may have had some influence but there's no way to prove that it altered the results.

First of all, everyone has the right to suggest that an election may have contained cheating and, in fact, this right is vital.

Second, the Democrats almost couldn't go five minutes during Trump's term without suggesting that there had been election tampering.

No. Polling stations may be eliminated for all sorts of reasons. There should still be reasonable access. As to hours, as long as the hours enable most people to vote before or after reasonable job hours, it's fine. No one is trying to prevent people from voting who are eligible to vote. No one is trying to do anything other than return voting regulations to a traditional form which makes cheating harder. This is not a conspiracy to "destroy democracy."

No one is trying to prevent people from voting who are eligible to vote.

This has NOTHING to do with cheating and everything to do with trying to regain power.

In 2016, it was Trump who was claiming election fraud and setting up commissions to investigate "buses of fake voters" even though he won.