Marc Elias: It Is Time To Protect the Election Certification Process

[Nevilledog]

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"The right to vote is hollow if it does not include the right to have your vote counted and, if your candidate receives the highest number of votes, to have her assume the office to which she was elected. Republicans are taking aim at this vulnerability."

It Is Time To Protect the Election Certification Process
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7:00 AM · Jun 27, 2021

In state after state — from Florida to Montana — Republican legislatures are enacting laws making voting more difficult. These laws, which often target minority and young voters, are a scourge on our democracy that threatens the right to vote in order to gain partisan electoral advantage.

Though Congress has taken notice, progress has been difficult. While the House of Representatives passed the For the People Act (H.R. 1), which would preempt many of the worst of these new state laws, passing it in the closely divided Senate has so far proved more difficult. Additional legislation is also in the works — including the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore a critical portion of the Voting Rights Act that was struck down by the Supreme Court.

While most of the legislative focus has been on the registration and voting process, significantly less attention has been paid to another point of vulnerability in our election system — the rules for tabulating and certifying elections. The right to vote is hollow if it does not include the right to have your vote counted and, if your candidate receives the highest number of votes, to have her assume the office to which she was elected. Republicans are taking aim at this vulnerability.

Historically, the period between election night and Inauguration Day was celebrated as the peaceful transfer of power. Diligent election officials rechecking their math to ensure every lawful vote was accurately counted gave confidence to the public that elections were fair, free and honest.

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[lordsummerisle]

1. K&R for exposure n/t

[niyad]

2. KNR

[MissMillie]

3. kick (n/t)

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[crickets]

4. Good point. K&R

[tableturner]

5. We can beat voter suppression; we can't beat voter nullification!

Suppression is the bright and shiny object the GOP is throwing at us (prohibiting giving water to waiting voters, for example) to distract us from the REAL danger: GOP election officials, state legislatures, and governors reversing the election results when they don't like those results!

[iluvtennis]

7. + agree. n/t

[aocommunalpunch]

6. LMAO

Republicans will never be on board and the filibuster deals with the rest. What did I miss? A few months of searching for bipartisanship? I’m sure we have time for that.