Whichever party scores the most victories in next week’s midterm elections, the halls of Congress and the nation’s statehouses are still going to be filled next year with election deniers who questioned President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
Barring the unexpected, the results will put many in position to enact further restrictions on voting rights, change traditional tabulation procedures and even challenge the 2024 results — though critics of the 2020 tally never produced valid evidence of significant fraud.
This probably won’t be a problem everywhere. Voters in several of the most tightly contested 2020 states — including Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania — seem likely to elect or reelect officials who stood up to former President Donald Trump’s unproven demands to reject the decisions of their state’s voters.
