In the afternoon, Meg and I enjoyed, if that is the right words, a programme first aired on BBC2 the night before detailing how Trump attempted to 'steal' the last presidential election. The focus of the programme were the proceedings conducted in the state of Georgia where Trump made a telephone ,recorded at the time when Trump cajoled the official in charge of the elections to. 'find' hm 11,000 votes so that he could claim the state. Eventually Trump was indicted i.e. charged in the Georgia court system but an appeal against the character of the prosecutor went as far as the Supreme Court who, helpfully for Trump but unsurprisingly, delayed proceedings until after November 5th. No doubt in a few days time we shall see all kinds of shenanigans (what a delightful Irish word!) to contest results and gain electoral advantage. There is a lot of what I would call 'throwing sand in the eyes of the opponent' and I suspect that this practice probably dates from the times of gladiatorial combat. If one is on the ground, potentially defeated and weaponless, then the only desperate hope that you have is to grab a handful of sand and throw it in the eyes of the opponent in order to gain a few seconds of advantage. To carry on with the analysis of Georgia, the BBC correspondent is now reporting that Georgia may represent 'Ground Zero' for e Republicans as the Georgian court system is already full of actual, not to say potential cases, concerned with the 2020 election. In recent days a Georgia judge has rejected as "illegal, unconstitutional, and invalid" an attempt by Republicans to enforce new practices in the election process. They included the hand-counting of votes and the right to examine any election-related documentation "prior to the certification of results". Opponents said the documents could have involved anything from training manuals to poll watcher credentials - they dismissed the legal action as a spurious effort to undermine faith in the legitimacy of election results.