Our democracy is bleeding out. Congress doesn’t deserve credit for covering one leak while ignoring others, _Jahan writes for thereidout Blog
Protecting election security earnestly means addressing all the problems with our elections. Without bolstering voting rights, these "fixes" fall short.On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of senators reached an agreement on proposed legislation to protect election workers from attacks and shore up some provisions in the Electoral Count Act.
The senators set out with the goal of preventing an attempted coup like we saw in January 2021, when then-President Donald Trump and his allies tried to pressure his vice president, Mike Pence, to stop the certification of Joe Biden's election win.The bills seek to close loopholes in election law that then-President Donald Trump and his allies tried to exploit to keep him in power despite his defeat in the 2020 election.
In the coming days, you’re going to see people promoting these bills as landmark legislation. In fact, in the senators’ own announcement,. But these bills don’t offer real election security. If anything, they protect elections from being stolen in the specific way Trump and his campaign tried to overturn the 2020 election — but the assault on legitimate elections is broader than that, and it’s continued vigorously since then.
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