Cancel Voting

    News media report there have been threats made against local and state voting officials, warning them of personal harm to them and to their families if Trump supporters lose.

  This during the few days before the coming off-year election next week. Typically, voter turnout is slim for such years, since many districts have only local offices at stake.

  But this could be a sign of things to come, a precursor to next year, when almost all seats in the House of Representatives will be open, and a third of the Senate seats.

 Separately, Donald Trump has called on supporters to ignore voting. Put the two together, and there is suspicion of a ploy to disrupt major elections in America to make it easier for the ex-president to "prove" the falsity of his loss in 2020 and to arbitrarily claim victory next time.

  Worse, if local and state election officials and poll workers refuse to risk their lives at polling places, that could mean they would be replaced by supporters of a given candidate, who would manipulate the vote count in favor of their candidate.

  If that sounds like the efforts made last year to overturn the vote counts that evicted Trump from the White House and now change the system to guarantee a return to power for the ex-president, then perhaps poll workers and election officials will have to be on guard to protect not only themselves and their families, but the Constitution itself, and replace it with someone who wants to dictate how the country shall conduct its elections.