2020 comes and same playbook. If I lose, it's rigged. A childish, yet brilliant strategy. The sycophants used the same mantra in the mid-terms. In GOP world, if an election occurs and you lose, it must be rigged. Only elections where you win are fair. 

Right wing media looking to stir up a civil war, divide people and make money with angry viewership numbers, promote this illogical concept.

It's not new. Bush stole the election from Gore with a similar scheme. His a bit more sophisticated as he happened to have a brother that could oversee a recount and award a victory.

On 8/05/2020, CNN ran a story about State Assembly Deputy Minority Whip Chris Edwards' fears that the Nevada law authorizing universal mail-in ballots would give rise to ballot harvesting.  

Here are two excerpts from the article (I added the italics):

Having said that, a better choice of wording on my part would have been that people were questioning whether the election was secure against potential fraud (as I said in my original post).  That is what I meant.   And that includes people on both sides of the aisle, politically.  In 2016 Clinton beat Trump in Nevada by less than 3%.  In 2020 most people thought the election could go either way.  The local news channels who were running stories about unsecured discarded ballots were not biased.

After the election, obviously it was conservatives who suggested election fraud actually occurred, but many of the people repeating that line were people who had questions about election security in August.  If the state had done a better job responding to their concerns prior to the election, maybe fewer people would have been taken in by Trump's accusations.

Right, but that 'questioning' for the most part was bad faith political strategizing.  Like it's pretty clear that Trump (who also uses the generalized and therefore unprovable term 'people') was beating the drum about how mail-in votes were guaranteed to generate fraud and electronic machines were hackable.  The former is an extension of the general (up to that point) strategy/belief of the GOP that higher voter turnout is bad for them, so therefore anything that makes it easier for people to vote eats into the GOP's strengths.  For a bit, it looked like they were reversing course on this since it's clear that a majority of people would prefer to have an easier time voting, but I dunno - the GOPs current strategy regarding voting rights is stochastic, to say the least.

As far as Trump's assertion and the ongoing bullshit peddling about the reliability of electronic voting machines, that's literally just about delegitimizing Biden's win (and down the line).  And one or a handful of stories on a non-Fox platform is a statistical non-event - I don't see CNN having to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars for a constant pattern of disinformation on the subject.

Agreed. If you read my posts, I never mentioned voting machines.  That's not something people were worried about in Nevada. Nevada has had electronic voting machines at least since the early 90s (when I started voting) and it's never been a problem.  

People were concerned that switching to 100% mail-in voting three months before the election would create opportunities for ballot harvesting and fraud, because bad actors could gain access to ballots they would not normally have.  

National and local media seemingly confirmed those possibilities.

After the election, Trump and his surrogates claimed they possessed hard evidence that fraud occurred, which played on people's pre-existing concerns.

For the most part those concerns dissipated after Trump's claims were disproven in court, but there is still a vocal minority among conservatives who claim the election was stolen.