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Well, to be clear, I was asking if anyone here believes the 2020 election was rigged... and that Trumf should've won (the Electoral College)... since many were assuming that would be the case considering all the signs and banter at the time.)

-C!

The reason HOAs can do that is because homeowners living within the communities governed by the HOAs have contractually given them that authority.  When you buy a house within an HOA, you sign a document wherein you agree to abide by the CCRs.

So the HOA actually has more power to restrict political signs than a government entity would.

No, but it was an unusual election.  Due to COVID, Nevada had universal mail-in voting.  You could vote in person (and many people did) but the state sent mail-in ballots to all registered voters; not just voters who requested them.  

That created a perception among some people that the election process was unsecure.  Local news channels ran stories showing stacks of discarded ballots laying around apartment complex mailrooms, etc., with the implication being that anyone could just pick up those ballots, fill them out, and send them in.  But there was no evidence of widespread fraud.

I'm looking forward to a return to normalcy in the next election, and hope that people will accept the results, whichever way it goes.

I expect neither of those things will happen, particularly if Trump is one of the candidates.

Normalcy with respect to how the election is conducted. That already has happened, in 2022.  

As far as Trump goes, love him or hate him (and the country seems split down the middle on that), he has some rather unorthodox views on foreign policy.  I tend to agree with Tucker Carlson that those views are what got Trump into trouble, not the rest of his antics.  

Not what I said, and that's not what happens in my state.  

Anyone who wants to can vote using a mail in ballot.  They just have to request it.  Nevada also has abundant early voting opportunities at temporary polling stations that are set up all over the place in the weeks leading up to election day (many are even open at night; especially in Vegas, because so many people work on the strip and don't have traditional 9-5 work schedules).  

More than half of Nevada voters avail themselves of one of these methods of voting, and on election day there are usually enough polling stations to keep lines short and moving very quickly.  Its been many years since I've waited more than 5-10 minutes to vote.  The state generally does a pretty good job handling elections.

2020 was an exception.  The election WAS secure, but they did a bad job conveying that, in order to ensure public confidence in the process.  The decision to switch to universal mail-in voting was made less than 3 months before the election, with very little explanation as to how voter fraud would be prevented.  So when the national media started questioning election integrity, and local news channels started running stories like the one I referenced in my previous post, there were people who questioned the integrity of the process, and unfortunately the state didn't jump on those stories and provide clear answers.

Trump stated immediately when he lost that it was stolen from him ...with no proof or evidence and none has come forth since.

He also claimed for months leading up to the election that the only way he'd lose to "this guy ( Biden )" is if the election was stolen from him.

No one should be surprised when his lemmings went crazy when he lost as he'd been goosing them for months.