Reese Waters: Did Trump Rig the 2024 Election Already?

Reese Waters: Trump and Maga weren't going to be satisfied just crying about 2020. We knew this!! From Donald Trumps lackluster appearances yet unshakable confidence to multiple MAGA members cozzying up to judges and county officials, the signs are there. The 2024 election is gon be a mess.

After completing the MAGA takeover of the Georgia State Election Board, Donald Trump’s allies quickly cemented his 2020 election lies into policy, and moved to allow conspiratorial-minded county election officials to refuse to certify election results if they see fit. Even before the election board granted broad powers to county election officials to deny election results and reopened an investigation into minor vote-counting errors in Fulton County in 2020, Trump was publicly praising the work of three Republicans who hold majority power on the board.

Dozens of officials who have refused to certify elections since 2020 still in office – report
Watchdog group’s finding underscores concerns Trump and allies will attack in election certification in swing states. Nearly three dozen officials who have refused to certify elections since 2020 remain in office and will play a role in certifying the presidential vote in nearly every battleground state this fall, according to a new report by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), a watchdog group.

The report underscores the concerns that Donald Trump and allies will attack the certification process at the local level as part of any possible effort to contest a loss in the election. In a presidential election, there are tight deadlines at the local, state and federal levels to certify the vote. Delaying the vote at the local level could cause states to miss deadlines and open up protracted court battles and give oxygen to conspiracy theories.