Republican lawmakers have been pushing for partisan reviews of election results in an effort that has been spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. sbauerAP.
Similar efforts are being pursued by Republicans in the presidential battleground states ofMore than a dozen bills have been introduced this year in seven other states proposing similar reviews of elections and election results, including in states Trump won such as Florida, Missouri and Tennessee, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, which tracks such efforts.
Bills calling for partisan election reviews have found little success, which is due partly to Republican lawmakers who have criticized the 2020 conspiracy theories and defended their state’s elections.to require in-depth reviews of ballots and voting equipment in close presidential elections.
In Virginia, Democrats who control the state Senate defeated a Republican measure that would have required “forensic audits” of an election if certain elected officials or elections officials requested one, or if a group of residents petitioned for one. It also would have initiated a review of the 2020 general election in Virginia.about the 2020 presidential election who attended the rally in Washington, D.C., that preceded the Capitol insurrection.
The measure was defeated on a party-line vote, with every Republican on the committee voting in support of it. In Maine, a pending Democratic bill would instill safeguards to protect ballots and voting machines from tampering while also keeping ballots out of the hands of partisans. A similar bill is making its way through Colorado’s Democratic-controlled Legislature.
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