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by ianlevesque 943 days ago
Limits on ballot drop-offs that mostly affect urban, democrat leaning counties: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/texas-supreme-court-...

Destroying equipment the USPS would use to handle the unusually large number of mail-in votes: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/usps-mail-sorting-ma...

All coinciding with a large, engineered, split in pandemic cautiousness about attending in-person voting stalls between the two main parties. There are more examples, gerrymandering is a decades-long one, but most of what I've read & heard about 2020 was about forcing people to wait in long lines or vote in person when that would favor one party over the other.

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I'm with you on the other things, but outside of the Maine, Nebraska, and the historical quirk that is two Dakotas, gerrymandering can't have a direct effect on presidential elections.
The 'direct' effect qualifier is important though -- gerrymandering state-level elections to the point where a population can be discouraged from voting would very likely have a top-line Presidential election impact too.