DynamicSpirit
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For claiming that the election is insecure or unfair when it isn't? Yes, obviously. Given how dangerous that is.
What evidence do you have for this statement?
I think there is some talking-at-cross-purposes going on here.
Clearly there is much that is unfair about the US election. The electoral college system tends to bias towards the Republicans, sometimes giving them the Presidency even when the Democrats get more votes than them. The the lack of population-proportionality in senate elections has the same effect, giving an in-built Republican bias, while also giving each voter in small states much more influence than voters in larger (by population) states. There are also real issues about the Republicans seeking - often successfully - to make it very difficult for people to vote in areas or demographics that tend to vote Democrat, effectively disenfranchising some Democrat voters. Add to that the lack of federal representation for people in Washington DC and Puerto Rico (coincidentally both strongly Democrat-leaning places - so unfair both to the residents of those places and to the Democrats). And finally the first-past-the-post electoral system leads to very similar problems of lack of proportionality that you see in the UK.
However, it looks to me like @Starmill was specifically referring to Trump's repeated comments about unfairness. Trump does not acknowledge the actual problems with the system (which almost entirely favour the Republicans), and instead makes up unsubstantiated claims of fraud and insecurity around postal voting, which he claims helps the Democrats, but which of course largely do not exist. To that extent, Starmill is correct: The election is not unfair in the way that Trump claims. But @GRALISTAIR is also correct that there are actual unfairnesses in the system.
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