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1 Will Wilder, et al., The Election Sabotage Scheme and How Congress Can Stop It 1 (2021)

handle is hein.brennan/enstesem0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Election Sabotage Scheme and How Congress Can Stop It By Will Wilder, Derek Tisler, and Wendy Weiser ver the past few months, the drive to allow partisan sabotage of the election process had series of frightening public successes. The Arizona State Senate 'nhc U its partisan review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, a nakedly political bid to feed disinformation and conspiracy theories. The Geor- gia legislature passed a bill an o n i s to remove the elected secretary of state - I tod up to requs to overturn the 2020 election results - as chair of the State Elections Board and replace him with a hand-picked chairperson. In Texas, the governor signed aw that targets local election officials and poll workers with new penalties, empowers partisan poll watchers, and cuts down on access to voting. The Texas secretary of state also a oun _ed a dubious election review, the day after former President Donald Trump urged it. And in states like Missouri and Oklahoma, legislators introduced even more extreme bills that would have allowed them to directly overturn legitimate election results. While these bills did not pass, their mere introduction is a shocking affront to democratic norms. Following a legislative season that saw many states increase barriers to voting, these laws and proposals, often added quietly and late in the legislative process, would change who runs elections, who counts the votes, and how. They go beyond vote suppression to enable direct election subversion. And they have a distinctly authoritarian flavor. Joseph Stalin t '¢ Ap gnajpy: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how. Legislation enabling partisan interference in election administration is part of a broader election sabotage or election subversion campaign, a national push to enable partisans to distort democratic outcomes.1 It includes partisan reviews of vote tallies to justify overturning elec- 1 The election subversion trend has been well documented in several other reports in recent months. The States United Democracy Center, Protect Democracy, and Law Forward published a eeg ~;describing elements of the trend and analyzing important bills to counter it. Another necntreprt by the Voting Rights Lab built upon this research and linked these bills to other developments. And an a Iys by the Center for American Progress looked at particularly troubling subversive legislation in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law 1

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