The right to vote is, inarguably, the existential dynamic of a Democratic polity. It is the singular route to a “government by, and for, the People,” as envisioned and provided by our Nation’s Founders.
Electoral fraud or voter fraud involves illegal voting in, or manipulation of, the voting process. Objective history has shown, in fact, that voter fraud is extremely rare in the United States; nevertheless, false accusations do have an active history, especially relative to the 2016 and 2020 elections, evincing the singular denial and underhanded tactics of Donald J. Trump. One unforgettable and remarkable example is Trump’s (accidentally televised) telephone request of the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” an additional number of (empirically determinative) votes in his favor. The reader will, no doubt, recall the plethora of exotic conspiratorial ideations tactically conceived by Trump’s MAGA acolytes, some of which, conceivably, may pass muster at Louis Carroll’s “Mad Hatter’s tea party.
The “Will of the People” is a fundamental democratic concept that defines the collective preferences of a community on public issues, usually expressed through elections. It is thematically relevant, in this context, to recall that, in the concept of “general will,” it is the people who are sovereign.
Donald Trump’s bizarre autocratic rule and resultant National dystopia have resulted in an outraged public response. His derogation of the Constitution, trashing of the separation of powers, unilateral declarations of war, and sophomoric imposition of tariffs on America’s trading partners, leading to unbearable consumer prices, Gestapo immigration policies, and demonstrated immorality, have motivated millions of American citizens in New York, Wisconsin, Illinois and several other states, as well as smaller communities to effect a plethora of huge public demonstrations in the amount of millions of concerned citizens in demonstrated rebellion against Trump’s autocratic and hubristic rule.
Such unprecedented, enormous citizen protests are, inarguably, expressions of the will of the people as valid and articulate as the citizen voting franchise; they represent the peripatetic vote and will of the people, voting with their feet; which cannot be tactically distorted.
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