The Fight for Fair Elections

Tuesday, August 05, 2025

In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials worked together across party lines. The system held. This year, however, a new threat to free and fair elections has emerged: the federal government itself. The Trump administration has launched a concerted drive to undermine American elections.

Posted by Dbt2 at 08:05 AM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

Connecting the dots, our new resource shows the scope and impact of the current administration's unprecedented attempts to undermine the country's elections " threatening the 2026 midterms. Learn more: bit.ly/4l1lUPP [image or embed]
" Brennan Center (@brennancenter.org) Aug 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-08-05 07:52 AM

Then there are things like this ...

Trump may be off the hook for his 2020 election plot, but his allies aren't
www.politico.com

... The criminal cases against his fake electors have been bogged down in delays. But prosecutors are trying to keep the charges alive. ...

Donald Trump's victory in 2024 largely shattered the efforts to prosecute him for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

But dozens of his allies still face state-level criminal charges for their roles in the plot. The five cases against them have plodded along for years, mired in procedural gridlock, prosecutorial bungles and appellate review.

None of those cases is anywhere near a trial, yet they all remain pending -- a state of legal limbo that exemplifies the nation's halting struggle to reckon with, and achieve accountability for, Trump's failed bid to seize a second term despite Joe Biden's victory nearly five years ago. ...

Trump may be off the hook for his 2020 election plot, but his allies aren't
www.politico.com

... The criminal cases against his fake electors have been bogged down in delays. But prosecutors are trying to keep the charges alive. ...

I had forgotten about the fake electors that were seemed to be used in 2020 to distort the election results in Pres Trump's favor...