I'll not blame either party but it sure is discouraging to realize that my
vote might be canceled out by someone voting from the grave. And yeah, I
already heard that they should have the right to vote since they were not
fortunate enough to live long enough to vote in this election and should not
be disenfranchised because of it.

Both parties will, of course, blame the other.

I think the difference this time around is the elevated emotional state of the
electorate. We have entire media-industries in place that have been making
billions a year demonizing the opposition. It's been going on non-stop since
the before the last election. Many people are now convinced that the other side
isn't only wrong, it's "evil."

When asked to express an opinon, most people can only repeat slogans and
talking points. Oh oh.

Some of that zeal has found its way into a "win at any cost" mentality. Aren't
there supposed to be hordes of attorneys already lined up for both the
Republican and Democratic parties, ready to challenge almost every aspect of
this election if their guy doesn't win?

The "win at any cost" mentality is expressed in voter registration issues.
There was a news item about a bunch of
people from a certain political party who just arbitrarily "challenged" the
registrations of
a ton of folks from the opposite party.
Turned out that in that community, if you are challenged as a voter, you have
to go to a hearing to get back on the roles. They held the hearing, only about
25-30% of the voters who were challenged got the day off work (etc) to go to
the hearing. When the hearing started, the party that brought the challenges
admitted that it had *no* evidence to support the challenges. None.
(One woman who was challenged said she had lived at her same address in the
precint for 20 years).
The judge threw the challenges out, immediately, but that won't help the 70-75%
of the voters who were challenged and who got kicked off the roles as a result.