You question my "Americaness" yet you come up with that?!? It's bewildering.No the election was not stolen from but was lost by Trump due to the election rules regarding the election administration being non-transparent, ambiguous and inconsistent. Why does every state have to have different election rules? It's a federal election. Election rules should be administered at the federal level and should be unambiguous, consistent and uniform across all states. If this had been the case then there would've been so much less conflicts and doubt over the result of this election. And Biden's presidency would've received lot more legitimacy and authority and it would've made things so much easier and smoother for him in running the country later on as well. At least if he had been elected by election rules that are unambiguous, consistent and uniform across all states, people would at least acknowledge even if they didn't vote for him that he really is the president truly elected by the people. Now we would just never know. He's the president, the electoral college results are certified by Congress. Yeah but were those results really correct? That's going to be a question that people will always have at the back of their mind that people never needed to have with all the presidents before him. Now he's gonna have to struggle to run a country and fight the doubts of his legitimacy. And that's a problem.
America is a federation of States. Each state is adamantly protective of their independence, particularly the red states, which for decades have fought the federal government's intervention in state affairs.
The antiquated voting system in America is a result of states' so called sovereignty. It's not new and wasn't created to dump Trump. The electoral system is also part of that antiquated voting process and I am glad you and I can agree on something, that the US voting system ought to evolve to at least 20th century standards.
Elections should be on a one person, one vote and standardized across the nation, as a reflexion of our national unity. Everyone voting should present a state ID (I'm all for national ID!) which should be free to anyone asking for one. No one convicted of anything should lose their right to vote; it's an unalienable right. But people failing to update their address on their ID to prove their residence, ought to lose their right to vote. Voting should be mandatory as a sign of respect for the suffering of so many who ensured that right. Failure to do so should lead to a $100 fine. Anyone is free to vote blank.
Of course, the next step, the 21st century step is to vote online. After all, we transact money online, there's no reason we couldn't come up with a secure system with multiple redundancies.