Answering the Query: "Aren't Those Republicans Not Conceding Sore Losers?"

So I had a question asking what I thought about the "sore losers", or GOP primary candidates taking a page out of the Trump manual and calling their election illegitimate. 

Here was my circuitous answer, fwiw. 

You know why I’ve never leased a car? Because it’s a lot more complex than just buying a car outright. There are a lot of caveats and fine print and financing tricks. You maybe can drive it a certain amount of miles and then they look at the car at the end of your lease and decide whether or not it’s acceptable and if they want to ding you for it. 

Similarly, if I have a simple equation like 2+2=4 it’s hard to complain about the answer. It’s clear to anyone with elementary math skills. 

If I have a complex equation like x = a + b * c / j ....

Then the answer seems trickier, and people may refute the answer because they can’t follow it.  Anything complex means that it’s more hidden, and things that are hidden means it’s easier to commit fraud. 

Our voting system is like the complex equation, with many handoffs and at least 4 major systems to it. 

One of those 4 systems is so complicated that our voting machines have proprietary code and only the company can look at the code. So it’s nothing like a simple adding machine - it’s very complex software that requires frequent updates and is subject, like all software, to hacks. 

So given our crap voting system, it’s natural that everyone from Al Gore to Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump, to GOP candidates do not concede. Democrat Stacey Abrams still hasn’t conceded in her 2018 governor race and I can’t say as I blame her. 

But don’t listen to me, a Republican (or at least I was one).  Listen to this Democrat: John Barrow, the Democrat challenger who ran against the current Georgia Sec of State, said back in 2018:  

"What we need is hand-marked paper ballots, optical scanners to provide a quick but unofficial tally of the vote at the end of Election Day, plus audits of these optical scanners to make sure we’re not relying on an unofficial count that’s misleading in any way...If you talk to people who are most technologically savvy, they say nothing is better than paper and pen. This is a back-to-the-future moment. We can use technology to enhance the voting experience, but we should never trust our ballots anymore to a medium that cannot be read and understood by a human being.”