State-level Republicans are “reforming” how elections are administered

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The Republican Party apparatus remains enthralled by the idea that the last election was illegitimate and that election rules must be changed to guard against future steals

Inside the Coliseum, something serious is unfolding: a partisan review of all the ballots cast in Maricopa County . Despite the fact that two audits have already been completed, reaffirming that Joe Biden won 45,000 more votes than Mr Trump, the Republican-controlled state Senate used its subpoena power to instigate yet another. This one has been shambolic. A previously obscure company called Cyber Ninjas was contracted to conduct this audit—despite never having done one before.

To understand how this is happening, consider the various loci of power in the Republican Party. There is Mr Trump, the king in exile, of course, but also the activist primary base, the donor class, the elected elites and the conservative-media ecosystem. More than ever before, this system represents a hermetically sealed loop, in which alternative facts and outright conspiracies can flourish unchallenged.

We know there’s a very real possibility that there were actually instead preprinted ballots filled in not by hand but by machine—as well as the possibility that mail-in ballots weren’t actually mailed in. And how would we know that? If there aren’t folds, of course.

Nearly six months after Mr Trump narrowly lost Wisconsin, the Republican speaker of the state House announced that he had hired three ex-cops to investigate allegations of double voting and other irregularities. There are efforts in Michigan to audit results in some counties on the basis of alleged voting-machine failures. Some Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Senate are agitating for an audit of their own.

In Kansas, the authority to modify election procedures has been taken away from the governor by the Republican state legislature. The legislature has also usurped the secretary of state’s ability to contest election lawsuits filed in courts. Ms Hobbs in Arizona is a target of legislation that aims to take away her authority over state election procedures; another bill would take away her office’s authority to defend state election laws in court until 2023, when her term happens to expire.

That has left only explicit protections: the impartiality of election administrators and courts. The first of these is now under threat. The courts held their own in 2020, even under Trump-appointed judges, and perhaps they will in the future. But American democracy, like aeroplanes, once had several redundant systems for ensuring the safety and integrity of its elections and transitions. It is now getting dangerously close to having only one.

 

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As Orwell wrote in 1984 novel, 'all this marching up and down and waving flags is simply sex gone sour'. Prt2/3

Called RIGGING. . Mayor Daley of 1960’s smiles at insufferable and very afraid permanent gop minority. They lost!

I always wonder if america is narrowly divided. It is not even logical.

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They can reform all they want, blockchain voting system will laugh at their reforms.

Reparations ✊🏾

The “idea” no, the lie.

unfucking believable the BigLie is just that: one of formerguy's unstoppable, endless lies

And when their decisions turn on them in the future they’ll want to reverse them

A Virginia-based former high-level Trump campaign staffer reveals Trump's plan to prove voter fraud

The core belief isn't that it was illegitimate (that's what they tell the unwashed masses), the core belief is they can't win elections if all the people get to vote.

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