Congress can create national standards for election audits — the people entrusted to conduct them (not partisans); the time-frame to complete them (more than 7 months after the election is ludicrous); and rules about preserving the ballots themselves.
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second: Congress could at least fund a national study to see how long people actually wait to vote; when the problem occurs (usually in the morning rush); why waiting times differ so dramatically from precinct to precinct; and tech solutions
If restaurants have buzzers to tell you when your table is ready, surely polling places can do the same
Third, as @marceelias argues: fix the certific. process. I would add necc amendments to the Electoral Count Act that make crystal clear neither the vice president nor the House has the power to overturn electoral votes.

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I can only imagine the reaction from former DOJ lawyers who spent 4 yrs writing pleas to their ex-colleagues to eschew partisan corruption, demanded accountability for attorneys not living up to their oaths and who decried the damage to DOJ's stature.
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In allowing miscreants to escape accountability (unless Horowitz snares them in his inquiries), Garland has effectively told his department that there are no consequences for unethical or even illegal conduct.
Moreover, in refusing to examine what occurred in the last administration, he is not protecting career attorneys; he is protecting Barr and his political hacks who intervened in prosecutions, looked the other way when a whistleblower revealed Trump's extortion of Ukraine, etc.
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First, as the Justice Department’s website affirms, “the Voting Rights Act permits federal observers to monitor procedures in polling places and at sites where ballots are counted in eligible political subdivisions.”
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Second, Congress should allocate substantial funds to ensure the smooth operation of elections, purchase reliable machines and hire trained election personnel.
Third, a group of Democrats and Republicans could collaborate on proposed revisions to the Electoral Count Act of 1877 to remove the potential for any future House of Representatives to overturn the results of the electoral college.
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Biden did what presidents rarely do: He taught millions of Americans something that they did not know. “We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know.”
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Biden actually explained to those who cared to listen what systemic racism is. The results of Tulsa’s violence — and events similar to it — reverberate through history. Millions of dollars in family wealth was eliminated; the wealth gap persists to this day.
Unlike the Republicans’ cult leader, who plays on Whites’ resentment and sense of loss, Biden admonished those who adopt a view that if someone wins, someone else must lose.
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considering that virtually no adult in America learned about Tulsa in public schools, it is not so shocking that the pogrom that killed approximately 300 people and wiped out a community’s accumulated wealth would have been largely ignored for 100 years.
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defeated pseudo-authoritarians do not go quietly. Indeed they speak a common language of “fraud,” “betrayal” and existential peril. Who called it the “fraud of the century” and inveighed against the left who would seize power — Netanyahu or Donald Trump?
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anti-democratic nationalists are shameless in their procedural maneuvers
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