The Last Straw: They’re Stealing Elections in Real Time and Pretending It’s Normal

In this American Thinker article, Vince Coyner argues that delayed ballot counting, mail-in voting, loose voter-ID rules, and GOP Senate resistance to election-integrity legislation are allowing Democrats to “steal elections” while political leaders pretend the system is normal.

• Coyner focuses heavily on California, claiming the state’s election system is structured to benefit Democrats through universal mail ballots, long counting windows, and opaque vote updates.
• He cites the Los Angeles mayoral race as an example, arguing that Spencer Pratt’s shifting position in the count illustrates how late-arriving or late-counted ballots can change outcomes in ways voters are expected to accept without question.
• The article compares modern American election disputes to the Soviet concept of “vranyo,” meaning a lie everyone recognizes but still publicly pretends to believe.
• Coyner argues that Democrats have used mail-in ballots, voting machines, recounts, and extended counting periods for decades to produce favorable outcomes, naming Christine Gregoire in 2004, Al Franken in 2008, and Joe Biden in 2020 as examples.
• The piece criticizes Senate Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, and John Thune for failing to advance the SAVE America Act, which Coyner frames as the most urgent political priority of 2026.
• Coyner contends that Congress has clear constitutional authority under the Elections Clause to regulate federal election procedures and has failed to use that power to guarantee timely, secure, and transparent elections.
• He argues that states without voter ID, combined with problems involving voter rolls, machines, and chain of custody, create conditions where election manipulation becomes routine in Democrat-run jurisdictions.
• The article urges President Trump to force the issue by pressuring Congress, naming obstructing senators, using JD Vance’s role in the Senate, refusing to sign other bills, calling special sessions, and making passage of the SAVE America Act central to his presidency.
• Coyner concludes that honest elections are the only peaceful way to resolve America’s political crisis and warns that blocking election-integrity reform may become “the last straw.”

Read the full story: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/the_last_straw_they_re_stealing_elections_in_real_time_and_pretending_it_s_normal.html