The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 28, 2024
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You’re listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.
Our third segment on Protect Democracy’s “Deceive, Disrupt, Deny” report anticipates how bad actors will likely use bogus claims of widespread non citizen voting to justify obstructing election certification, nuisance litigation, and sham audits.
Ultimately it won’t work, due to newly clarified deadlines and responsibilities states and courts must meet under the Electoral Count Reform Act. But in a close election, those delays will try to buy time for partisans to find flaws, diminish election confidence, and mobilize partisan activists to demand it be overturned.
Since 2020, election deniers have been appointed and in some cases elected to election offices around the country. In several U.S. counties, officials initially refused to certify the 2022 results. The Brookings Institution identifies 15 counties Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada as of high or medium concern.
Partisan legislatures or state election officials can also call for sham audits, as happened in 2020 in Arizona and Wisconsin, and lawsuits challenging the process and outcome are a certainty.
The good news is that the Electoral Count Reform Act clarified the hard federal deadlines by which states must submit results and slates of electors. More on that in our next report. Find Protect Democracy’s full report at
at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org. I’m Brian Beihl.
Today’s Links
Articles & Resources:
Protect Democracy – Deceive, Disrupt, Deny: 2024 election subversion strategies and how to defuse them
Brookings – The counties that may try not to certify the 2024 election
American Democracy Minute (2022) – Election Denier Chaos in Cochise County, Arizona
American Democracy Minute – (2022) – NM County Officials Refuse to Certify Primary Election with No Evidence
Brennan Center for Justice – What Georgia Tells Us About the 2024 Election Subversion Campaign
Groups Taking Action:
Protect Democracy, Campaign Legal Center, Brennan Center for Justice
Check Your Voter Registration:
- U.S. Election Assistance Commission – Register And Vote in Your State
- USA Vote Foundation – Registration, Eligibility, State Election Office Links
- Vote.Gov – Register to Vote in Your State
- Vote.Org – Check Your Registration to Vote
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