It's Time for Congress to Address Election Subversion Opinion
Christine Todd Whitman, Norman Eisen and Jessica Marsden
The passage of Texas Senate Bill 1 deepens the crisis facing our democracy. It is the latest example of a wave of 216 bills introduced in 41 states authorizing partisan interference in professional election administration. Combined with phony audits like the one still unfinished in Arizona and a nationwide epidemic of resignations by election officials in response to these forms of harassment, faith in elections is being undermined everywhere. The U.S. Senate must act boldly to protect free and fair elections when it returns on Sept. 13.
The Texas bill that just passed out of a controversial special session in Texas is one of the most egregious examples of election subversion legislation in the country. This voter suppression package included provisions that boost the power of partisan poll workers and criminalizes routine election administration procedures. These changes to how elections are run are not minor procedural updates. They fundamentally shift the power away from trusted election officials and toward partisan political actors.
As our organizations warned in a recent report, had election subversion measures like these been in place during the 2020 election, attempts to change the outcome and overturn the will of the voters might have been successful.
Without forceful action by Congress establishing nationwide standards outlawing this nonsense once and for all, these voting restrictions will continue to proliferate on the state level.
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