Will the 2026 and 2028 US Elections be Fair?

I hesitate to even ask this question–primarily because simply questioning the fairness and legitimacy of an election is a really serious matter….Well, maybe not for an ordinary citizen like me, but definitely for a public official. Still, I don’t raise this question lightly. To me, the evidence should be quite substantial to even raise the question. I definitely think that’s the case. To just cite one bit of evidence, Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election in multiple ways, and he still claims that he won the election. My understanding is that he has used this as a lithmus test for people that work in his administration as well. If he did this in 2020, why wouldn’t he do this in 2026 and 2028?

I’m going to use this thread as a repository of articles and posts that track this issue. Trump has said and done things already that raise serious questions about whether the upcoming elections will be free and fair. If you think I’m going too far with this, or if you think the articles or information I cite isn’t valid pieces of evidence, I hope you will chime in. Also, if you find articles that I missed, please let me know. (As is usually the case, I’m behind in my posting on this.)

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  4. Today, voters in Virginia and New Jersey chose Democratic governors, Abigail Spanberger and Mickie Sherrills, respectively. Trump and other MAGA-types are baselessly crying foul.

    Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference from the NYT

    Before the polls even opened on Tuesday, Mr. Trump called a vote in California to redraw congressional districts ahead of next year’s midterm elections, as Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done, “a GIANT SCAM.”

    “The entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Mr. Trump declared without citing anything to support the claim. He suggested that Republicans were somehow “shut out” of mail-in voting, warning that a “serious legal and criminal review” was on the way. Mr. Trump has long railed against mail-in voting, but it was not clear what he meant by a review.

    There is little evidence that significant voter fraud is, or has been, a problem in California. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative research organization, lists only a single case in 2024 in its “election fraud map” and only 69 cases since 1982.

    Caroline Leavitt, the WH press secretary claimed that California’s system of allowing vote by mail was “ripe for fraud.” Whne asked for evidence,

    …she cited, “fraudulent ballots that are being mailed in in the names of other people and the names of illegal aliens who shouldn’t be voting in American elections.” A White House official, when asked by email for examples, repeated many of the claims about potential, though not real, fraud, and cited a Department of Justice lawsuit against the state saying it reported finding more than two million duplicate registrations, while seven counties did not report duplicates. The lawsuit does not claim any of the duplicates resulted in duplicate votes.

    Ms. Leavitt said preparations for an executive order on elections were underway but did not detail what review Mr. Trump referred to.

    Trump and his followers have been saying this kind of thing over and over again, including in the 2020 election. And over and over again they haven’t been able to come up with substantive evidence to support their claims.

    Trump’s referencing a “review” of the election is ominous as well.

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