Congress has one last chance to stop mass disenfranchisement.
who tried to make voting easier. It should be a scandal every time a qualified American citizen is denied the ballot. But these laws generally affect elections at the margins. They shave off a few thousands votes here and there, which can make all the difference in a close race. Election subversion operates on a much larger scale. An election subverter does not necessarily stop people from casting their ballots. Rather, they nullify those ballots after the fact—potentially by the millions.
These operatives would, of course, be subverting the election. But they would also be suppressing those votes—to the same degree as if they stood at the front of the polls on Election Day and refused to let Democrats in. By the same token, Pence would have suppressed these votes by rejecting Pennsylvania’s electoral slate. And Congress would have suppressed them by siding with the Republican objectors.
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