There are different barometers for what makes a banana republics and the United States has been sliding in that direction. Could a friendly judge contrive to keep certain polling places open to favor his party? Sure. That kind of thing has been going on here for a good two centuries. The judge generally wouldn’t also be the candidate’s lawyer, but I won’t pretend that kind of thing was unknown in say Philly or Chicago.
But a pretty definitive marker of a banana republic is when the losing candidate has to flee the country. And that’s what happened in Brazil where Lula’s leftist regime not only contrived to keep polling places open selectively, but where Flávio Bolsonaro had to flee to America to avoid being arrested, the way that his father had also been targeted by the Lula regime.
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