Lying About the Electoral Process

Here’s one of Donald Trump’s attorneys explaining how she expects to have the election results sometime in the middle of the night, saying that if we don’t have the results by morning, it will appear that the Democrats have “extended the vote.”

In truth, all 50 states have constitutionally mandated times on election day when all voting is stopped, and no one is empowered to extend that moment by a millisecond.

What actually does happen, however, is that the votes then need to be counted, which, as we all know, takes time.  Some states’ constitutions provide for the certification process to continue, as required, until the end of November.

The point here is that this attorney knows all this goddamn well.  But she also knows that she’s speaking to a bunch of completely ignorant people from the core of the GOP base, who will happily believe that, if their candidate loses, it must have been because the Democrats rigged the election.

It’s shameful, but welcome to America in the era of Trump.