Thread by @Robert_E_Kelly

These new GOP voting laws are designed to make voting so complex, that almost any election can be disputed. The point isn’t so much to make voting harder but rather, more legally contestable. Voters & poll workers won’t learn all these new rules, providing the legal basis for

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endless lawsuits over whether this or that voter voted legally: should citizen XYZ should have his vote disqualified bc his wife gave him a ham sandwich while he was waiting on line? It will be Florida 2000 again & again in states where the vote is close. If you can’t win at

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the polls, or won’t accept that the Democrats legitimately win major races, then make voting rules so absurdly murky & results therefore so unknowable, that you can push decisions into the courts or state legislatures. This is basically adding legal grounds of over-complexity

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to Trump’s blunt effort to bully the courts and state governments last year.

This ‘working the refs’ strategy is the only choice the GOP has to win if it won’t change ideologically. It’s lost 7 of the last 8 popular votes. It represents a national minority coalition of aging

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voters, and Trump & Fox won’t let the party moderate to attract new voters. This problem will persist bc T won’t go away. So now the focus is to make election winners legally indeterminable, permitting officials to throw up their hands & impose their own preferences. Creepy

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