That's a ridiculous request. I'm originally from Chicago, where the tradition is to vote twice if you're dead, three times when you are alive.

Seriously, your request would be impossible to fulfill, even if I was a mortician. Besides, minor voting irregularities happen in all elections. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you'll find a dead body who voted for Trump.

As I said, that is what recounts are for. The reason recounts only typically result in a tiny change in votes in any jurisdiction is because there has been, in our 200 plus years of electoral history, very little voter fraud (we are talking in multiples of ten here, not the multitudes of thousands that the silly conspiracy/QAnon/Trump/Crazy faction is claiming).

Even in Chicago, fraud was always related to very localized things like aldermanic elections. There has never been, even in Chicago, a grand scale of voter irregularity. It's just not a thing in America, which isn’t Belarus.

County election workers, who are very hardworking and make very little if any money, are very good at what they do. And they shouldn't be hassled for it.

There simply has been ZERO evidence of any substantial voter fraud. 50 court cases and counting have demonstrated the utter, complete, and unassailable lack of evidence.

As I said, the onus is on you, as the person claiming voter fraud, to prove it.

To do this, repeating Breitbart or Tucker Carlson or Mascara Rudy talking points is not sufficient.

You must present evidence.

So far, Mascara Rudy has not presented ANY evidence to convince any judge to alter course. This includes many Republican and Trump appointed judges. He's convinced no county boards or state election officials. Nobody. Because he has presented no evidence whatsoever.

I need to prove nothing because I'm not saying the system is broken. You are. So you need to offer solid evidence. I'd wait, but Rudy has come up empty, and so will you.

I will add that your basic premise that half of all voters (or more) believe the election was unfair is also a fallacious premise, which would automatically disqualify your team in a debate competition.

According to a Monmouth poll taken in late November, 61 percent of Republicans thought the election is unfair. That's not exactly half of the voting public. Independents and Democrats are probably swinging further the other way because of the bizarre intransigence.

The number of suspicious Republicans may be climbing because of Trump's propaganda machine, but it isn't that much further off than the 52% of Democrats who thought the 2016 election was unfair. I don't remember Democratic temper tantrums at this scale. With a lot smaller margin. Do you?

Every election cycle it's the same thing. The losers grouse, and whine, and mope. I did it in 2016, so I feel ya.

If you really do have some evidence nobody knows about, you should present it to Rudy. He clearly needs the help. Hopefully, he won't fart you out of the room.

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All of this would be amusing if election officials, who have given a lot of energy and devoted substantial parts of their lives and put themselves at great risk because of the pandemic, were not being abused and threatened.

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Surely you heard what the Republican election official, last name of Sperling (I don't recall his first name) said about people on his staff getting death threats? Even people's kids are being threatened.

This charade is not funny. I have zero tolerance for anyone who participates in spreading it.

You seem like a nice enough fella. You should check your moral compass and ask if you are okay with all the death threats and bizarre rants about violent insurrection and secession.

Or, maybe just accept the results of the election like we always do.

As for the changes you suggest, that's a local county and state issue, and it always has been.

If you're gung ho on that, I suggest you petition your local election officials.

Republicans hate it when things are federalized. Right? Why change now? Or are states' rights and decentralization no longer part of the Republican mantra? Perhaps they died off like a lot of other once noble causes when Trump took over the party.