Here’s what Congress can do to keep the next Trump from stealing an election

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We dodged a bullet last time, and things are much worse now. Election officials have been leaving their jobs as they face threats of violence and harassment, and some of the people who will replace them have bought into the “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen. Those are the people who will be in charge of counting the votes in some places next election.

Simply put, we face a serious risk that election results will not reflect the will of the people in 2024 or some other future American presidential election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/29/stolen-elections-legislation-prevention/
 
The Electoral Count Act, an arcane set of rules dating back to 1887 that governs how Congress counts electoral college votes, is in desperate need of a rewrite. New legislation aimed at preventing stolen elections could incorporate such a revision. Congress could clarify that only extreme circumstances impeding voting — such as a natural disaster — would justify a state legislature’s sending in a competing slate of electors.

It should also be harder for members of Congress to raise frivolous objections to a state’s slate of electors; right now it takes only one senator and one House member, from any state, to bring the counting process to a halt for separate debates on the validity of that state’s counts.
 
Good idea, but ain’t happening, as we know, the GOP isn’t going to approve any election reform, they’d filibuster any effort, done deal
 
You seem particularly steamed up over Trump today. At least five posts all with pretty much the same topic.

Has he been scrubbed from your Christmas list?
 
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