Election deniers repeatedly visited Ga. county office at center of criminal probe, video shows
Source: Washington Post
Surveillance footage shows Jeffrey Lenberg, left, and Doug Logan of Cyber Ninjas, entering the Coffee County, Ga., election offices on Jan. 18, 2021. (Obtained by The Washington Post)
Technology consultants who sought evidence that Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat was fraudulent made multiple visits to a county elections office in rural Georgia in the weeks after an alleged post-election breach of voting equipment there that is the subject of a criminal investigation. Surveillance video reviewed by The Washington Post shows that the consultants, Doug Logan and Jeffrey Lenberg, made two visits in January 2021 to the elections office in Coffee County, about 200 miles south of Atlanta.
Lenberg made an additional five visits on his own that same month. The two men are under investigation for separate alleged breaches of voting machines in Michigan. The footage also shows that earlier in January, Cathy Latham, a teacher and then-chairwoman of the county Republican Party, was at the elections office and greeted the outsiders when they arrived shortly before noon to copy the data. Latham has said in sworn testimony that she taught a full day of school that day and visited the elections office briefly after classes ended.
She was one of 16 Republicans who signed certificates declaring Trump the rightful winner of the 2020 election as part of the “fake elector” scheme now under investigation by federal and state prosecutors. The new video adds to the picture of the alleged breach in Coffee County on Jan. 7, 2021, and reveals for the first time the later visits by Logan and Lenberg. It also provides further indications of links between various efforts to overturn the election, including what once appeared to be disparate attempts to access and copy election system data in the wake of Trump’s loss.
Experts have expressed concern that such efforts could expose details of voting systems’ hardware and software that are intended to be tightly controlled, potentially aiding hackers who might seek to alter the results of a future election. Data copied from elections systems in other states has been published online. Georgia state officials and voting-machine makers have downplayed the risk, pointing to safeguards that they say protect the systems from tampering.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/06/coffee-county-georgia-breach-logan/
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that were BLOCKED in the Senate (cloture). 
H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021
H.R.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021
The first one - the "For the People Act" directly addressed this subject of "election integrity" among other things. In fact, this is what the summary says -
For the People Act of 2021
This bill addresses voter access, election integrity and security, campaign finance, and ethics for the three branches of government.
Specifically, the bill expands voter registration (e.g., automatic and same-day registration) and voting access (e.g., vote-by-mail and early voting). It also limits removing voters from voter rolls.
The bill requires states to establish independent redistricting commissions to carry out congressional redistricting.
Additionally, the bill sets forth provisions related to election security, including sharing intelligence information with state election officials, supporting states in securing their election systems, developing a national strategy to protect U.S. democratic institutions, establishing in the legislative branch the National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions, and other provisions to improve the cybersecurity of election systems.
Further, the bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosure of campaign-related fundraising and spending, requiring additional disclaimers regarding certain political advertising, and establishing an alternative campaign funding system for certain federal offices.
The bill addresses ethics in all three branches of government, including by requiring a code of conduct for Supreme Court Justices, prohibiting Members of the House from serving on the board of a for-profit entity, and establishing additional conflict-of-interest and ethics provisions for federal employees and the White House.
The bill requires the President, the Vice President, and certain candidates for those offices to disclose 10 years of tax returns.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1
Something becomes "states rights", when CONGRESS refuses to do its fucking job to make something "federal".
This is no different than what we are dealing with trying to codify Roe...
Remember that women couldn't even vote just over a century ago.
The Constitutional Amendments include provisions that explicitly give Congress the authority to enforce the Amendment by passing legislation. E.g., the 15th Amendment -
Amendment XV
Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxv
That provision right there lead to the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the current SCOTUS under John Roberts, has been gutting piece by piece.
