He said it, I didn’t:
Lol. He’s lying, ofcourse. Many of the changes were approved by Republican state legislatures and he lost anyway.
But it’s clear they intend to push the idea that state legislatures should decide presidential elections.They are pretending that there was something unusual about State Supreme Courts, Secretaries of State or local elections officials handling the administration of the election and that the changes they made to accommodate the pandemic were illegal — and therefore he “won big.” It’s a fatuous excuse for his defeat but what would you expect.
But underlying all that folderol about election rules, which they certainly would like to invest in partisan politicians who could intervene at the last moment to tilt an election their way, there is a very basic attempt to destroy our democracy. Check out this little shot across the bow from Arizona:
Rep. Shawnna Bolick, R-Phoenix, has proposed letting the Legislature void the results of a presidential election if it chooses.
House Bill 2720 would allow the House, by a majority vote, to revoke the secretary of state’s certification of presidential electors chosen by Arizona voters to cast the state’s electoral college votes.
After the bill was proposed, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs questioned why the Legislature doesn’t get rid of the presidential election altogether, contending that’s essentially what Bolick’s bill would do.Your stories live here.Fuel your hometown passion and plug into the stories that define it.
Bolick, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, defended the bill on Friday as it attracted national attention.
“This bill would give the Arizona Legislature back the power it delegated to certify the electors. It is a good, democratic check and balance,” she said in a statement.