# What will happen if GOP steals the 2026 election? What should happen?

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**Created:** [September 8, 2026, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-gop-steals-the-2026-election-what-should-happen/1032891 "2026-09-08T03:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-if-gop-steals-the-2026-election-what-should-happen/1032891/27 "2026-10-23T02:59:09Z")

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When I say stealing an election, I mean when what you’re doing is a felony. Not just influencing the outcome of the results but actually changing the results after voting has occurred.

Look at Trump’s unexpected gains among black and hispanic voters in 2024 after running an openly racist administrations in his first term. People have tried to come up with various explanations about why minority voters would switch to Trump. One possible explanation is that they didn’t switch to Trump; they voted for Harris and then the voting machines switched their votes to Trump. After all if you’re going to rig the system, you get the most effect by doing it among voters who are least likely to vote for you.

Or as Trump himself said, “Elon Mush knows those vote counting computers better than anybody.”

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