You have the right ideas. Looks like the SCOTUS essentially decided that it’s not their role to clean up all the corruption of elections inside the states and local government, at the last minute. And in reality they can’t possibly clean up the whole mess over the long term. That’s the job of the states and localities. The SCOTUS has a valid point there, because this problem of fraud and lawbreaking has been building up for decades, and GOP leaders haven’t done nearly enough to strengthen the integrity of elections. This year, all that inaction nailed us badly. When the election for governor in Washington state was brazenly stolen from Dino Rossi, that was a time when the Bush Administration could have stood up for the rule of law and sent the FBI into King County, WA to investigate those responsible for stealing the election, followed by a full report to the state and possible prosecution for federal offenses if the state failed to act. But Bush and his administration did nothing about it, and proved that even big elections can be brazenly stolen.
Republican leaders have taken the easy road for too long and chosen to manage and minimize vote fraud and selective enforcement of election laws, rather than truly stand up for the rule of law. That needs to end now, and election integrity must become a major issue for Republicans—a cause that we fight for relentlessly every year.
The consent decree that very recently expired was hampering the RNC for decades. It’s not easy to go from a dead stop to highway speeds in a single two-year election cycle. But looking back with 20/20 hindsight, that’s what was needed to keep pace with what turned out to be the most dastardly, Lex Luthor-style plan of electoral crime ever attempted against our POTUS election system. Some patriotic Comp-Sci analysts saw obvious weaknesses that showed them how vulnerable we had becone to this kind of fraud. Unfortunately none of them was able to sound a loud enough or annoying enough or clear enough alarm to become our century’s answer Paul Revere. Maybe the recent incursions into the right of free association (physical gatherings) and free speech (digital community-building) were the final “cuts” that prevented those individuals from combining so as to amplify their voices enough to make the necessary impact on the minds of public or on those of our state or federal legislators.