How Republicans seek to make it easier to challenge -- and even overturn -- election results
The foiling of former president Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election is coming into sharper focus, and we laid out Wednesday just how close the scheme came to succeeding (or perhaps how far it came from succeeding). Essentially, the Justice Department and Vice President Mike Pence stood in the way, but even if they had fallen in line, there were significant obstacles.
But that leads to the next question: How much will those obstacles still be there next time?
Republicans across the country are proposing and passing legislation predicated on the idea of election security, even as we still have yet to see any proof of widespread or even significant fraud in 2020. But while much attention has been focused on new voting restrictions, there has been less analysis of the mechanisms by which it would become easier to overturn a result.
Let’s look at a few of them.
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