Nearly half of Republicans and a quarter of Democrats said they will not accept election results if their candidate loses.

Nearly half of Republicans say they won’t accept the results of the presidential election if their candidate loses, and some of them say they would “take action to overturn” the results, according to data released Tuesday.

About a quarter of Democrats said they wouldn’t accept the results if their candidate loses, and fewer Democrats than Republicans said they would “take action to overturn” the results.

The nonpartisan World Justice Project, which keeps an index of how strong the rule of law is in more than 100 countries, gathered the data as part of a larger study. The poll was conducted through online interviews with 1,046 American households between June 10 and June 18.

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    It won’t become a civil war.

    But what it absolutely will become is a bargaining chip: ‘yes we lost but give us this or we provoke actual violence’, etc, ad nauseum.

    We’ll need ‘demonstrations’ for this to reach maximum effectiveness, so they’ll arrange them.