It really is rich how the circle jerk has seized on propaganda here.
What does it mean when someone is asked if the election was won legitimately?
le·git·i·mate·ly
/ləˈjidəmətlē/
adverb
in a way that conforms to the law or to rules.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/...ng-republican-audit/
Citing an anticipated surge in voter turnout and potential U.S. Postal Service delays, the state Supreme Court ruled mail ballots could be counted as long as they were received by the Friday after Election Day, despite the fact that the law states ballots must arrive by 8 p.m. on the day of the election. (About 10,000 arrived in that extended window, according to Boockvar.)
In another case, the high court ruled that although the law says voters “shall fill out, date, and sign†the outer envelope of a mail ballot, not doing so is a technical defect and those ballots shouldn’t be disqualified. Republicans had sought to throw out several thousand votes because of technical issues with the outer envelope in Philadelphia and Allegheny County.
While the state Supreme Court considered those issues a “minor irregularity†that didn’t disqualify a ballot, the justices took a perhaps counterintuitive approach to another part of the Election Code that they considered a “weighty interest.†They sided with Republicans on “naked†ballots, ruling the law was clear that a ballot must be placed in a secrecy envelope, which then has to be placed in an outer envelope.
The court said it was clear lawmakers meant the secrecy envelopes to be “mandatory†because they protected the privacy of a voter’s choice.
It’s unclear how many naked ballots were thrown out across the state, but in Philadelphia, about 4,000 ballots lacked a secrecy envelope and were rejected.
“You’re talking about thousands of ballots that aren’t going to count. It’s a problem that we need to correct,†said state Rep. Kevin Boyle (D., Philadelphia), the minority chair of the House committee that handles election legislation. “The wording of Act 77 was extremely problematic in relation to that.â€
That’s just an example in PA…parts of the election that did not conform to law or rules. That is not legitimate, by definition.
So, yeah, the propaganda machine works both ways. You can both think the election had problems with legitimacy and that Biden is the duly elected President. There are Republicans who think election laws were broken in 2020 who don’t think there was some grand conspiracy against Trump. But, when you ask that person if the election was legitimate, they’re going to say no. Then, you can use that answer to paint all Republicans as crazy. It’s propaganda.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-think-2020-election-illegitimate/index.html
About half of Americans continue to feel that it is at least somewhat likely that elected officials will successfully overturn the results of a US election if their party does not win (50%). That view has been fairly stable since CNN began polling on the question in summer 2021. There has been an uptick in the share of political independents who feel that it’s at least somewhat likely, though, from 42% who felt that way last summer to 53% now.
From the above, I conclude that 50% of Democrats think our elections are illegitimate.
Legitimate is a loaded word. Ask a better question.
