I can't believe I'm still writing about the US election on November 7th, but I'm still writing about the US election on November 7th ...
It's just a bit unfathomable and surreal to us outsiders that there are openly armed citizens wandering around outside American polling stations where votes are still being counted.
Mind you, it's pretty unfathomable to most people that they are still counting votes at this point. It's notnlike we didn't know that this would happen. Could they not just have passed a nationwide law specifying that postal ballots need to be received a week before election day, and that election centres need to have them counted before election day? That would have avoided all of this chaos and stress, the results would have been known on election day, and there would not be openly armed citizens wandering around outside American polling stations where votes are still being counted.
Pro-Trump protesters carrying rifles and hand-guns have been rallying around vote tabulation centres in Phoenix, Detroit, Philadelphia and other cities where Donald Trump's initial vote surge appears to be dissipating as postal votes are counted, shouting "Stop the steal!" and "Arrest the poll workers!" and "Make Elections Fair Again!" (I kid you not), responding to Trump's repeated and unfounded claims that illegal things are happening and his election is being stolen from under his feet. A Hummer with two armed personnel with illegal guns was detained after a tip-off. Many election officials legitomately fear for their lives.
Meanwhile, African countries are pointing am accusing finger at the USA, which has repeatedly advised them on how democratic elections should be run.
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