It's very easy sometimes to put a post inteh wrong thread, and I rather assume that was what bearded bruce did there, rather than seek to intentioinally lurch the thread into a completely different topic. I think it's a mistake to respond in way that prolongs the thread lurch, as Carol did there. (Thread drift is something else entirely.)

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"Electoral malpractices" are such a direct assault on the democratic process that I find it extraordinary that it can be a matter on which people can see it as something to argue about, and to divide according to their party preferances. Anybody who cheats in an election is guilty of a kind of treason. They are everybody's enemy.

That was what I found so hard to get my head round in the previous election - the fact that people who would claim to be patriotic Americans were clearly dividing up on that issue along neat party lines. Even on the Mudcat.