On Tuesday, the watchdogs at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington – CREW– released a new report highlighting state election officials who have refused to certify elections since 2020 and the MAGA plan to steal this year’s election. The report also describes what responsible state officials and courts can do to stop it.
The threat, to be sure, is significantly less than it was after the 2020 election, thanks in large part to record voter turnout that year and in subsequent elections where a substantial number of deniers in key races were defeated. Additionally, the salutary bipartisan reform of the Electoral Count Act took away the more pernicious avenues to corrupting the election results, and we are more aware of what bad actors might try to do. But the threat still lurks if the election is in any way close.
