I disagree. I’m not a lawyer, but I AM a seasoned—very seasoned—citizen. There were too many variables here to box it all up tightly into a legal analogy.
I’ve served on juries. We had to present the truth about ourselves, we had to be selected, we had to work together to assess facts and to come to an agreement, if possible.
The people at the polls did not have to do these things. I understand that in some cases they didn’t even have to offer ID (it’s hard for ne to believe that, but perhaps it was actually so)
Also, at any trial, the people witnessing the events or any who would be there to report the events of the trial, are not allowed to lobby for the side they choose to support and make it known to the jury or to the judge. Whereas, in this national election, the media—that infamous fourth estate—has clearly “campaigned” for one candidate. They became unpaid campaigners, so to speak. Their bias was obvious to anyone who wanted to acknowledge truth. They were active players from start to finish.
I go back as far as the Dewey days in my voting experience. For me, there has never been an election that was like this one: for lengthy extension of campaign time, for obscene amounts of money raised, for a very complicit, one-sided media, and for pure theatre.
And American voters bought it all.