The potential consequences of politicians deciding election outcomes underscore the importance of an effort by senators to work out legislation setting national standards for elections that can win bipartisan support, GeraldFSeib writes
On Jan. 3 of this year—amid the furor over former President Donald Trump’s claims of a “rigged” election, and three days before a mob of his supportersHe moved that the House refuse to seat 67 of its own, newly elected members from the six states where Trump allies were claiming election fraud. Rep. Roy, a conservative Republican, actually opposed the efforts by some in his party toof President Biden.
The House overwhelmingly rebuffed Rep. Roy’s effort. Yet he actually pointed out a potential nightmare scenario that could come to pass, well before the next presidential election.
That would surely set off a cascade of challenges from Democrats seeking to block Republican members, setting off a slide into chaos. “It’s the perfect example of how this would be weaponized,” says Benjamin Ginsberg, a longtime Republican election lawyer. “And that would lead to an existential moment where no one could predict the outcome.”
The scenario is frightening but no longer far-fetched, given what has been learned in recent days abouttop Justice Department officials to pressure Georgia’s state legislature to convene to pick its own slate of presidential electors after the 2020 presidential vote was counted, and subsequent efforts by legislators there and elsewhere to take control of elections and their outcome away from the local election officials who have long handled them.
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