Not unlike the disputes over spectral evidence at the Salem witch trials.
Jack Rakove
At this point, the claims that elections are "rigged" are in the same realm as claims of demonic possession.
The people behind this alleged conspiracy are clearly, in the GOP imagining, actual wizards, possessed of dark magic.
That and also "rigged" means "they let Black people vote."
Amanda Marcotte
RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged?
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.
