On this very terrain, four years ago, I asserted that we can “never again” allow an election like 2020 to happen. I am back to say that despite President-elect Donald Trump’s near landslide, America’s election system is still broken.
And the time to fix it is immediately, while Trump has the wind at his back with a Republican Congress and the public on his side.
You most clearly see a broken election system when the margins are extremely tight. We saw it in 2020 when approximately 40,000 votes in key states tipped the election, and not so much in 2024. But rest assured, the public still lacks confidence in the integrity of our elections, and rightly so. They are only partially transparent. The tools to cheat are still on the table and able to be used. This is a ticking time bomb that could throw America into chaos in a future close election.
The main problems are…
