How to call the GOP's bluff on their 'election integrity' talking point

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Time for Ds to push revisions to the Electoral Count Act, which could avert the rogue elector scenario in 2024.

This would restore election integrity & voter confidence, so Rs will want this, right?

New piece on @rickhasen's great interview w/@IChotiner:

Opinion | How to call the GOP’s bluff on their ‘election integrity’ talking point
It's time to revise the Electoral Count Act. Republicans will support this, right?
washingtonpost.com
2:14 PM · Jun 24, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/24/how-call-gops-bluff-their-election-integrity-talking-point/

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Republicans swear up and down that their escalating voter suppression efforts are really just about restoring “election integrity” via cracking down on (nonexistent) voter fraud, to reinforce voter “confidence” in election results. If so, supporting revisions to the ECA should fit the bill perfectly.

After all, this would not represent federal encroachment on how states run elections (a frequent objection to federal efforts against voter suppression and partisan gerrymanders), but rather clarification of already existing processes. And it would reinforce election integrity and voter confidence by making it less likely that electors are counted in defiance of a state’s popular vote.

Meanwhile, Republicans who profess pure motives about future elections should want this kind of reform for another reason. When Trump pressured state legislators in 2020 to send rogue electors, which they mercifully resisted, it put them in a terrible position.

If the ECA were clarified to make such a scheme far less likely to succeed in Congress, then that sort of pressure on them would be far less likely to happen, and they would not be forced to stand up against it in defiance of the party base. And by the way, in a closer future election, given the drift of today’s GOP, that pressure could very well be much more intense.

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