Republican Lawmakers Objecting To Biden Electors Have A Point: Americans Need To Trust Elections

Speaking to Sen. Ron Johnson, one of the senators planning to object Wednesday, Todd even claimed the only reason tens of millions of Americans question the integrity of the election is because Republicans have been sowing doubt.

I'm talking about old-fashioned, mundane stuff: people voting twice, dead people voting, cash-for-votes schemes, election workers ignoring state laws about the counting of absentee ballots, and courts changing the rules and deadlines for absentee ballots at the last minute.

We talked to poll challengers in Michigan who witnessed election workers counting ineligible absentee ballots and not allowing GOP observers to do their jobs.

In a joint statement issued over the weekend, 11 senators and senators-elect noted that the extent of fraud in the 2020 election is disputed but that "The allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes." As a result, large numbers of voters don't trust the election results.

While the formal objections of these lawmakers won't change the outcome of the election or stop the Electoral College's certification of the count, the senators' call for a bipartisan election commission at least acknowledge that we have a serious problem on our hands when this many Americans don't have confidence in our elections, and that something needs to be done about it.

I'm not sure anyone knows what the solution is in a country where national elections are conducted differently from state to state, even county to county.

To paraphrase Frédéric Bastiat, the best way to ensure voters trust the results of our elections is to make our elections trustworthy.
 

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