Recently the state of Texas sued several other states for electoral fraud. The Supreme Court of the United States dismissed the lawsuit with a two-sentence statement which essentially said "it's not the business of the SCOTUS what the states do, it's up to their court systems".
Several Republican senators and Donald Trump likewise sued several states for voting irregularities, and lawsuit after lawsuit is being dismissed by the different courts of appeal.
Note that a dismissal by a court is not a judgment. It's not a statement that "fraud did not happen, the accused are innocent." When a case is dismissed like this, no jurists were heard, no evidence was presented in court, no arguments nor counter-arguments were given, there were no witnesses nor testimonies. Nothing. It's 100% the judge on his own volition dismissing the entire lawsuit before a single piece of evidence or a single testimony is presented, based on the judge's own opinion. In these particular cases there wasn't even a motion to dismiss by the accused. In these particular cases the judges dismissed the cases all on their own, without hearing a single argument or counter-argument.
Whether what they have done is completely in accordance to Federal law, I don't know. However, whichever is the case, it shows a huge flaw in the United States electoral system:
Namely, individual states are free to deliberately commit electoral fraud in the presidential elections, and there's absolutely nothing that the other states can do about it, even when the result of this fraudulent election were to greatly affect those other states. The federal government will not intervene. The Supreme Court, which is supposed to judge over all states, will not investigate nor intervene.
States are officially free to commit electoral fraud in the United States, with no repercussions from the federal government, even if the result of this fraud affects the entire country.
This is not even a question of whether actual fraud was committed or not. This is a question of the federal courts refusing to investigate altogether. They did not judge that fraud wasn't committed. They simply said that they will not deal with the matter in any way, shape or form. That it's not their business. Electoral fraud may or may not have been committed, but they will stay out of it regardless.
If that's not a broken electoral system, I don't know what is.
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