A top Michigan official warned on Wednesday that, unless the Republican-controlled state Legislature passes a law to speed up the reporting of election results, it would be responsible for a chaotic and destabilizing election this fall.
“That will create a space to enable bad actors to falsely raise questions about the sanctity and security of our elections. That reality has implications not just for our voters but for the entire country,” she said. Story continuesRemarkably, these three states are the same that swung the 2016 election: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Trump’s attacks on the mail-in ballot process appear to have significantly undermined confidence among some Republican voters. Five states — Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and Hawaii — already conducted their elections entirely by mail before the COVID-19 crisis created a new sense of urgency to expand this option for more voters. California, Arizona and Montana conduct most of their elections by mail, and another 24 states allow anyone who wants to cast a mail ballot to do so.
The disparity between Republicans and Democrats in how they view mail-in voting has led some election experts to fear a nightmare scenario in which many more Republicans than Democrats vote in person on Election Day this fall, Nov. 3, skewing the initial returns and setting the stage for Trump to falsely claim victory and wreak havoc on the country.
In Pennsylvania, the Legislature is also controlled by Republicans, but as in Michigan the secretary of state — an elected statewide position — is a Democrat, along with the governor.
Very evenhanded article lol. Fuckin hacks. “Why won’t Republicans get with the program and just do what Democrats say?”