Actually, I expect BOTH parties have engaged in fraud & dirty tricks. A LOT. The means, motive, and opportunity are there for both, the potential payoff is huge, and the chances of higher-level officials getting implicated and punished is low. That combination of factors & incentives almost GUARANTEES voter fraud, suppression, or any other dirty trick. I was just giving a single example, and from a time-management and effective writing perspective there's simply no way to cover all the faults of one or both parties in a blog post.

As to the Republicans' allegations, you have credible whistleblowers in both Nevada and Pennsylvania, and additionally you have the recent and (seemingly) unconstitutional ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court allowing ballots to be counted after the deadline outlined in their state constitution. The latter is not voter fraud per se, but rather a party tampering with the system to skew things in their favor (just like voter suppression some Republican areas are accused of). Now will the evidence of the whistleblowers be born out? We just have to wait until their investigations are concluded.

But all that said... even if the allegations are true I doubt it would change the national outcome at this point. I think you'd have to have 3 (or more?) states flipped, and from a probability standpoint it seems very unlikely the vote was close enough AND provable fraud large enough in those states to flip them all.

I get there's an argument for following up on voter fraud to encourage accountability, but I doubt that's the real intent behind the lawsuits & challenges. I suspect the bulk of it is about Trump 1) being butthurt, and/or 2) being the showman to fire up his base. There was a good case made that Trump's post-presidency plans are to create a large news empire to compete with CNN, Fox News, and other news networks. If you think about it, the showman antics would serve to give him a large audience from the get-go, and launching it while his competition is still reeling from recent credibility issues has a certain opportunistic cunning to it. I know a lot of us just want him and his antics to just go away forever, but we should prepare for the possibility that we might not be that lucky... 😕