More Sabotage

   The president today added a threat to send sheriffs, law enforcement and perhaps military personnel to polling places allegedly to monitor voters and remove fake citizens from the premises.
   Never mind that he has no legal authority to take any such action, but such a barrier has not stopped him in the past from talking and threatening. Add this to his threat to delay the presidential election and his warning that he may not accept the results if he loses.
   By law, the presidential election is held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, when electors are chosen in the various states, who then meet in early December to finalize the results.
   But the president has talked repeatedly that the results may not be known "for weeks, months or even years." This can only be taken as a plan that he would stay in office for however long it takes for such a controversy to be resolved.
   The Constitution stipulates that a president's term ends at noon on January 20. How, then, could he stay in office beyond that time? Unless he is forging a strategy to seize power and remain in the Oval Office, despite what election results say.
   The answer could well be that it is the responsibility of American voters to make their choice clear, by both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote. If the results show that a strong majority of the population want the incumbent to leave, then he must.
   Likewise, if a similar majority want him to stay in office, then he has won re-election, and America should accept that.
   However, if there is strong evidence of tampering -- as the president himself has already threatened to do -- then it will be the responsibility of Congress to impeach him, hold a trial and order him removed from office.
   If he still refuses, then the nation faces yet another crisis. In addition, the man himself would still be liable for arrest and prosecution for attempting to improperly and illegally influence election results, for example by sending sheriffs into polling places to check the citizenship status of voters.
   That's not their job. It is the responsibility of local election officials. Any attempt to suppress that is tantamount to a threat to American democracy.