Authoritarians need elections to maintain plausible deniability. They just need them to keep people from voting and keep votes from counting to control outcomes in enough elections to keep themselves in power.
Anat Shenker-Osorio
I am less concerned about Trump literally “canceling” the midterm elections than I am about him insisting that no results can possibly be legitimate, and urging his most psychotic acolytes to take matters into their own hands (again)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday repeated claims that California's elections are rigged, disputing without evidence voter tallies showing the Republican candidate he endorsed in the Los Angeles m...