A lot of the vulnerability of Presidential elections arises from the
indirect election by state selected electors and convoluted laws adopted
to deal with certifying and contesting electors. The Trump coup was
based on the idea of just throwing the legitimacy of electors in doubt
and throwing the election into the Congress where each state gets one
vote. As far as I know, statewide elections for senators and governor
don't have these kind of provisions for throwing the election to some
political body...they just count and recount the votes till they either
get a winner or they flip a coin. We need to get rid the convoluted
process at the federal level and just go by the vote. That would
greatly reduce the threat to democracy.
Brent
On 5/22/2022 3:07 AM, John Clark wrote:
From The New York Times:
Trump’s Former Aides and Advisers on the Peril He Poses
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper agreed with an interviewer that
President Trump posed “a threat to democracy.” Other former
administration officials have expressed similar concerns.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/us/democracy-trump.html?smid=em-share
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