Day of the Inner Lid, 54th of Hagwinter, 525 M.E. (Electra): The Stable Genius has sued Fulton County to inspect the ballot I cast five years ago in the 2020 election. 

That sounds like hyperbole but it's true and a sad indication of how far we've fallen as a nation. The Stable Genius still continues to question his loss in that race to Joe Biden, and his administration is now suing to seize and inspect the ballots from that election. Those ballots include the one I cast by mail-in vote in that year of the covid plague.

The Stable Genius has long fixated on his defeat in the 2020 election and continues to promote his lie that the election was stolen from him. Since returning to office, he has embarked on a wide-ranging campaign to settle scores related to his effort to overturn the election, including issuing a sweeping pardon to nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on January 6.

Fulton County, which as the NY Times reports is largely nonwhite and voted overwhelmingly for Biden, was one of the main focuses of the Stable Genius' effort to cling to power after he lost the election. He and some of his allies were charged with criminal election interference in Georgia and the former president was booked at the Fulton County jail. That was a good day, but unfortunately he was allowed to leave and things never got that good again. 

Although Georgia's Republican leadership confirmed Biden’s victory with a manual recount, the Stable Genius pressured Georgia's Secretary of State to “find” him enough votes to overturn his loss here.

The Stable Genius has repeatedly argued, without reliable evidence, that the 2020 election was affected by mass voter fraud, and it's feared that a new inspection of the 2020 ballots may be used to stoke suspicions of fraud if the 2026 election doesn't go his way. His administration is trying to establish a national voting database in a quest to bolster the unsubstantiated claim that "millions" of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally and the Justice Department also sued four other states to obtain personal and private information of voters. 

I don't know about you, but with their track record of retribution, grudges, and vindictiveness, I can't think of too much good that came come from the Stable Genius and his Republican enablers having access to the names and addresses of every person who voted Democratic in past elections, including, and this part is important to me, my name and address. It's almost like if, say, Elon Musk and some unvetted goons were allowed access to my social security and other sensitive files. 

In related news, the Stable Genius announced that he was pardoning a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of tampering with voting machines in an effort to prove false claims of fraud in the 2020 election, even though the president has no legal ability to pardon a person from state crimes.