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Don't overestimate the legitimacy of US elections. Voter repression is rife, before even getting into media ownership laws.
There are literally decades of news stories about people in majority black areas waiting hours to vote, even 11 hours. Imagine trying to do that if you're sick or disabled, which is more likely when you're a minority. Or if your job can fire you at will because there are no protections. Then there's the gerrymandering to make that vote worthless anyway. And the voter ID laws, which again are harder for people from minority backgrounds to comply with. The corruption is systemic and started in the foundations.
The Obama and Biden administrations also chose not to pursue these problems. They didn't want to set the "political witchhunt" precedent that conservative media were warning about.
Next election, I expect to hear about huge quantities of ICE "observers" at polling places.