Paying lip service to a failed process does not make the process more robust, it simply papers over the issues until it finally breaks, to worse outcomes and pain. There are enough elements that are questionable in the US election system that it is not unreasonable for people to be doubtful of it, esp. in the hyper-partisanship of today.
The solution is not to pretend to go back to an era of gentlemen's agreements, but rather harden the process so that nobody except the real cranks and lunatics could feasibly say anything. The problem is that too many people now are happy to write off entire swaths of the country as "loonies and cranks" because of their own hyper-partisanship.
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Nixon did it too in 1960 for JFK's election, even though that has now been determined to have been "fraudulent" in how most people understand the term: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/donald-trump...
Paying lip service to a failed process does not make the process more robust, it simply papers over the issues until it finally breaks, to worse outcomes and pain. There are enough elements that are questionable in the US election system that it is not unreasonable for people to be doubtful of it, esp. in the hyper-partisanship of today.
The solution is not to pretend to go back to an era of gentlemen's agreements, but rather harden the process so that nobody except the real cranks and lunatics could feasibly say anything. The problem is that too many people now are happy to write off entire swaths of the country as "loonies and cranks" because of their own hyper-partisanship.