Comrade jafo wails:
"Does it even matter? If they fix the election again, and I believe they will, we will be faced with eight years of a disaster beyond comprehension."
"Fix it"?
да, Comrade jafo, of course The Party will fix things up.
It's called "the underground and above-ground election apparatus", and I've been posting about it here for years now.
There are the "below ground" components you don't see, such as ballot printing and distribution... and tampering with tabulation equipment...
And there are the "above ground" components that have been installed "in plain sight" over the years, such as unlimited mail-in voting, drop boxes, ranked choice voting, etc. As radical as these ideas are, The Party has succeeded in "normalizing" them in a relatively short time!
The apparatus worked in 2020.
It worked again in 2022.
And since then, The Party has been fine-tuning it in expectation of the upcoming election.
Again, you wrote:
"Does it even matter?"
Why yes, Comrade jafo (and to all my other Comrade Briefers out there), it DOES matter...
... to The Party...!