Republicans Are Laying The Groundwork For Endless Election "Audits" That Go Long Past Trump

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/texas-election-audit

Republicans are laying the groundwork for candidates to follow former president Donald Trump’s election-denying playbook, creating the potential for vote “audits” up and down the ballot for years to come.

Of most concern to election experts and voting rights advocates is Texas’s SB 47, a bill Republicans are currently fast-tracking through the state legislature. It would allow any candidate or party chair to force multiple inquiries into anything they view as an election “irregularity.” These inquiries would not require any burden of proof and could be pursued for potentially years after an election is over, all at the expense of taxpayers.

Roughly one-third of Americans believe Trump’s continued lies about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Now add in the potential for similar claims from dozens of losing candidates in every single primary and general election race — not to mention county and state party chairs and committees supporting ballot measures, all of whom can also force a look into a past election — and you have the nightmare outcome of a bill like Texas’s SB 47.

“It was the single most concerning bill I have seen all legislative session,” Sarah Walker, executive director for the national, nonpartisan election integrity group Secure Democracy, said this week.

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[ShazamIam]

1. What it all looks like to me is our media is helping some billionaires stir up a willing minority in

an actual physical attack of some kind against the U.S. Government. Creepy isn't it?

[Septua]

2. Like I said recently...

..in another thread, it'll never end; with the exception of Republicans winning all their elections.

[Mr.Bill]

3. States need to start passing laws

that say all ballots and elecronic voting information will be destroyed 30 days after the election is certified by state authorities. And if they don't like that, make it the day after.

[Ligyron]

4. Well those there audits cut both ways, no?

IDK what repukes in Texas are worried about. They win most elections anyway somehow so I think that needs looking into, i.e., constant auditing of elections where Democrats were discouraged or prevented from voting.