Republicans' Sisyphean 2020 recount rumbles on despite lack of evidence

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Republicans in several states are advancing partisan reviews of the 2020 election results, underscoring how deeply the GOP has embraced the myth of a stolen election since 2020.

The investigations in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Texas are advancing even after an extensive similar effort in Arizona, championed by Donald Trump and allies, failed to produce evidence of fraud. All three inquiries come as Trump has called out top Republicans in each state and pressured them to review the 2020 race. He is also backing several candidates who have embraced the myth in their races for statewide offices in which they would oversee elections.

Republicans leading the efforts in all three states have said little about the scope and details of their unusual post-election investigations. But experts worry they signal a dangerous new normal in American politics in which the losers of elections refuse to accept the outcome and continue to undermine the results of electoral contests months after they have been decided.

“They have slight differences tactically, but they all share the same strategic goals, which are primarily to continue to sow doubt about the integrity of American elections overall,” said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, and an election administration expert who has denounced the reviews. “I don’t know that there’s a word to describe how concerning it is.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-2020-recount-juggernaut-rumbles-on-despite-lack-of-evidence/ar-AAPf1o5

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2. Not sure there's a legal cause of action that would stop this

Republican elected officials are dead set on wasting a lot of time and money on settled election results. The Attorney General doesn't really have a legal hook to stop them from acting like fools (and some of them aren't acting, they're just fools). I'd like to see the state Democratic parties issuing statements through the local media about how Republicans are being sore losers, impugning their own competence by disputing the results of the election they oversaw, and that the citizens of their Great State deserve better governance than the Republicans are offering.