Like so many of these other “voter fraud” orders, the goal is never to secure and validate the ballots themselves.
It is always to create increasingly Kafka-esque rules around casting a ballot, then selectively enforcing the rules against the most politically vulnerable. Mix in hysterical mass media intended to claim any vote total is an undercount of your true popularity, and you get cycle after cycle of degraded faith in elections as a legitimate mechanism for choosing leadership.
Like so many of these other “voter fraud” orders, the goal is never to secure and validate the ballots themselves.
It is always to create increasingly Kafka-esque rules around casting a ballot, then selectively enforcing the rules against the most politically vulnerable. Mix in hysterical mass media intended to claim any vote total is an undercount of your true popularity, and you get cycle after cycle of degraded faith in elections as a legitimate mechanism for choosing leadership.