they're setting the stage for years of new restrictive laws in states they run, justified under the false pretense of fraud, & bolstered by an even friendlier SCOTUS. https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1325974473091244032
This is what happened after 2016, when Trump made stuff up with specific relentlessness about his loss in New Hampshire, paving the way for the GOP state government to change voting rules: https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/11/08/new-hampshire-voting-law
It's also the relentless playbook. Kansas adopted a law that put the registrations of 30,000 Kansas in limbo.

Forced to justify the law in court, Kobach managed to point to allegations that covered 11 ineligible voters since 2000. Used to keep tens of thousands away.
And I guess this is the best case scenario of what's next?
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