"In the days and weeks after the 2020 election, partisans across the country used lies and deceit to try to defraud the American people and steal the White House. Although Joe Biden was the clear and unequivocal winner, racking up big margins in the popular vote and electoral college, 84 fake electors signed statements certifying that Donald Trump had carried their seven battleground states. He did not."
"Deterrence matters It bears repeating: What we're talking about here is an attempt to overturn the outcome of a presidential election, said Sean Morales-Doyle, who heads the Voting Rights and Elections Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a law and policy think tank at New York University. If people can engage in that kind of conduct without consequence or accountability, then we have to worry about it happening again."
After the 2020 election, partisan actors submitted 84 fake elector certificates claiming Donald Trump won seven battleground states despite Joe Biden's clear popular and electoral victories. Those false certificates represented nearly a third of the electoral votes needed to win and could have reversed the outcome to give Trump a second term contrary to most voters' wishes. Some treat the events and the January 6 assault as bygone or irrelevant after 2024 results, but permitting such conduct without consequences risks repetition. Restoring criminal cases, as occurred recently in Nevada, and enforcing punishment serve to deter future attempts to overturn elections.
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