Yeah But ...

 On the day after the massive legislative slam dunk on behalf of Wealth and Privilege in America (WPIA) the republicans are jubilant, and the Opposition is restive but optimistic.

The democrats are optimistic for massive gains in the 2026 midterm election because they think voters realize how badly they have just been screwed and will "vote the bastards out".

And that might be true.

But it's very questionable.

Voting requires access in some jurisdictionally legally defined manner - poll booth, mail, other - to the ballot.

That's a problem for massive numbers of voters.

In republican controlled states so many complicated poll denial laws have been passed in the last few years that it is not a hysterical conclusion to assert that only the chosen few can actually get a ballot in their hands.

And even if a mudsill voter has the good luck and tenacity to get a ballot and mark it, since elections in America are ultimately administered at the precinct level - one of the system's strengths, or one of its fatal weaknesses - if the nice old lady taking the ballot from voters and putting them in the box (probably a violation of the law, but Millie's a good ol' gal) is MAGA (highly likely in a a huge number of the nation's precincts) there may be a mismatch between ballots marked and final count.

Making it selectively hard to get ID (enhanced driver's license, for example) a requirement for ballot access is an effective way to eliminate most of the voters who have just been screwed by loss of Medicaid. 

Since mail-in voting seems to have found favor only in non MAGA states one would assume that their systems would extremely accurately reflect the will of a large, ballot-enabled segment of their respective populations.

Have you noticed how long it takes for mail to get across town, across state or across country these days?

It's pointless to continue this postmortem of a previously vigorous national voting system.

Except to note that a sweep by the Democrats in 2026 is fictionally unlikely.

And, anyway, even if the system hadn't been rigged for MAGA since 2017, it wouldn't matter.

On election day 2026, if there is a massive swing to a Democratic House and (gasp) a Democratic Senate, the existing 2024-spawned power structure will declare a "nationally rigged election" and promulgate the "Retention of Power Until the Count is Valid Act" (RPUCVA - pronounced rapoocva) and continue business as usual into 2027 and beyond.

As the presidential election looms in early 2028, the checks and balances will kick in and the Supreme Court (having spent all of 2027 polishing and refining their opinion in favor of the recently passed Spanish Inquisition Torture and Retraining Act - SITRA, pronounced sitra) will declare RPUCVA constitutional and the permanent law of the land.