{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"101 \u2013 Voting Vexations","description":"How secure and reliable are elections in the United States?   The Left and Right are both replete with voices warning of the dire consequences of the \u201cother side\u201d getting their way.  And nowhere is this more evident than with concerns about the legitimacy of elections.  Whether it\u2019s the Right\u2019s concerns with voter fraud and election theft or the Left\u2019s apprehensions about voter suppression and disenfranchisement, Americans are growing increasingly concerned that their votes don\u2019t, or won\u2019t, or eventually will not count.   What\u2019s more, the leaders of each party, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have used increasingly alarmist language in claiming our democratic institutions have been undermined.  Trump continues to assert that the 2020 election was \u201cstolen\u201d and that it was a \u201cfraud on the American people\u201d.  Meanwhile, Biden has warned that those who do not share his views on election reform are interested in instituting \u201cJim Crow 2.0\u201d and that they are akin to the likes of George Wallace, Bull Connor, and Jefferson Davis.   In this episode Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis takes a deep dive into the various allegations made by Trump and Biden and offers some thoughts on whether Americans can have faith in their democratic institutions.   ","author_name":"Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values","author_url":"https:\/\/www.savingelephantsblog.com\/","html":"