How a rogue governor could steal the next presidential election for Trump

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Hat tip, a commenter at Joe.My.God.

POLITICS

How a rogue governor could steal the next presidential election for Trump

Grace Panetta
Jan 31, 2022, 12:34 PM

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to reform a 135-year-old law to save future elections from being stolen by their own colleagues. But if their well-intentioned attempts prove successful, they may inadvertently create a pathway for a less discussed but more urgent threat: a rogue governor in a swing state like Georgia single-handedly undermining the democratic process.

Congress first passed the Electoral Count Act, or ECA, following the disputed 1876 election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes, which was marred by allegations of fraud and the disenfranchisement of Black voters. ... But as former President Donald Trump continues to relentlessly push his false claims of a fraudulent presidential election and openly says it should have been "overturned," some members of Congress want to revise the 19th-century law.

The proposed reforms to the ECA are designed to prevent the executive branch and Congress from undermining elections, as Trump and dozens of Republican members of Congress tried to do by raising objections to results at the state level in Arizona and Pennsylvania, and pressuring former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the ratification of then-candidate Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, leading to the January 6 insurrection.

However, the suggested changes to the law would do little to constrain the power of state and local governments. By overseeing vote counting and certifying election results before they are sent to Congress for ratification, these levels of government arguably have as much power, if not more, than Congress and a sitting president to steal an election.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Jeb Bush already did this for his brother in Florida.

Then the Supreme Court backed them up.