Pennsylvania’s election laws are on the ballot this November.
The state’s mail-in voting system and voter ID laws could be redefined by the next person elected to lead one of the most consequential swing states in the country. All Republican candidates have campaigned on improving the commonwealth’s election security, even though the consensus among election security officials is that the 2020 elections were secure and accurate.
Former President Donald Trump started spreading lies about election fraud in the summer of 2020, and continued to sow distrust in the results throughout the contest, falsely declaring it over before all votes could be counted. Democrat Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by over 80,000 votes.
Lawmakers in Congress and the state legislature supported Trump’s claims, citing “concerns” from their constituents. Such concerns were stoked by months of election fraud lies. The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol concluded that Trump broke the law while attempting to overturn the election. The committee wrote in a court filing that it “has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
Trump and his congressional allies pushed for election investigations and changes to the commonwealth’s laws designed to safeguard elections from fraud that, by all evidence, did not happen.
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