If the “certified” election results are potentially incorrect then people are right to lack faith in them. The problem is the lack of correctness, not the lack

If the “certified” election results are potentially incorrect then people are right to lack faith in them. The problem is the lack of correctness, not the lack of faith. I feel like I see this a lot, this concern about second-order effects over concern about the problem itself. It feels like a way to draw attention away from the thing itself. Like, if a member of some particular group does something bad we start worrying about hypothetical repercussions against that group so we don’t have to talk about the act.