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A new strategy to give Trump-following Republicans control of the outcome of elections was born out of the January 6 insurrection—a strategy that has been completely flying under the radar.

Republicans have been pouring millions of dollars into campaigns for secretaries of state seats around the country, including the candidacies of more than 20 state officials who publicly disputed the results of the 2020 presidential election.1

Secretaries of state oversee election mechanisms and counts, so it’s never been more important for Congress to fix our broken election laws, strengthen voting rights protections, and prohibit these tactics from succeeding. Demand Progress helped to lead the charge for Congress to repair the Electoral Count Act and protect the voice of the people, and our push is working.

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Although most people probably can’t even name their state’s secretary of state, the position wields an incredible amount of power when it comes to elections.

During Donald Trump’s rally last month, he brought onstage a candidate for Arizona secretary of state, saying, “Sometimes the vote counter is more important than the candidate.”2

He’s right, especially with an unamended Electoral Count Act still in place. The 1887 law has been called “almost unintelligible” by election experts, and the Trump team sought to interpret it as allowing state officials to throw out results and declare someone else the winner.3,4 As one expert put it, electing Big Lie secretaries of state under these conditions is “like putting arsonists in charge of the Fire Department.”5

Demand Progress has been sounding the alarm about the the need to amend the Electoral Count Act and pass other crucial voting rights protections for months, and our campaign for reform is gaining traction. We’ve mobilized nearly 50,000 people to send messages to Congress urging them to reform the Electoral Count Act. Now senators on both sides of the aisle are getting on board with changing the law, but we need to increase our public call and make sure that the final vote is filibuster proof.6

Demand Progress needs your help to keep the pressure on, before these new secretaries of state take power. Will you chip in $10 to help convince Congress to reform the Electoral Count Act and pass voting rights legislation?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

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Sources:

1. The New York Times, "Campaigning to Oversee Elections, While Denying the Last One," January 30, 2022
2. CNN, "An Arizona Trump rally and voting rights march underscore the fight for democracy," January 17, 2022
3. The New York Times, "Fearing a Repeat of Jan. 6, Congress Eyes Changes to Electoral Count Law," December 4, 2021
4. CNN, "Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election," September 21, 2021
5. The New York Times, "Campaigning to Oversee Elections, While Denying the Last One," January 30, 2022
6. U.S. News & World Report, "Chastened Democrats Join Push to Change Century-Old Electoral Count Act," January 21, 2022

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