More: Trump and several Republicans have been pushing for changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but the president does not have the power to make changes"those lie with Congress. Under the U.S. Constitution, states are given the authority to decide how elections should be run, with the differences leading to debate around mail-in ballots, counting times and voting machines in recent years.

Johnson was the architect of the January 6, 2021, plot to send election results back to several states in a last-ditch failed effort to keep Joe Biden from becoming president.