Nearly a dozen states enacted laws this year that could subvert the results of future elections

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/politics/election-subversion-new-laws/index.html


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The Voting Rights Lab analysis identified several categories of election subversion legislation, ranging from laws that usurp the authority of election officials or threaten them with criminal sanctions to the moves in several Republican-led states to undertake partisan reviews of the 2020 election results.

The group's new report, shared first with CNN, tracked more than 180 bills introduced this year that have sought to shift authority away from election administrators, following former President Donald Trump's loss and his relentless and unsuccessful crusade to overturn the election's results in several battleground states.

"Enough states are starting to move these policies that we are, in fact, at a tipping point," Megan Lewis, the executive director of the Voting Rights Lab, told CNN. "These lawmakers need to stop these efforts or we really run the risk of eroding the fabric of our democracy."

The report comes as the former President and his allies, as they continue to push the false narrative of widespread fraud, are demanding more so-called "audits" of election results -- even after a partisan review of ballots in Arizona released last week reaffirmed President Joe Biden's 2020 win in the state's most populous county. Similar Republican-led reviews of last year's election results are moving forward in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, two other swing states Biden flipped from red to blue last year.

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Link to the Voting Rights Lab analysis

https://votingrightslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210924-VRL-Election-Subversion-Report-.PDF

[msongs]

1. is the senate voter rights bill dead and buried? nt

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2. Kick

[Red Mountain]

3. Democracy?

They just want to win. Democracy is great and all but it's gonna have to take a backseat to winning.