A Raging Battle for Democracy One Year from the Midterms
BY TREVOR POTTER, Founder and President of Campaign Legal Center
With just one year until the midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress, the composition of state legislatures and many other important elected offices across the country, the fight to preserve and protect the freedom to vote next November is already very much underway.
One of the core purposes of an election is to give voters an opportunity to hold their representatives in government accountable for decisions made while in office. Every voter who wants to make their voice heard must have the opportunity to do so; every vote must count equally; every vote must be counted; and every result certified and accepted. Any attempt to distort these fundamental principles strikes at the heart of what it means to live in a system of representative self-government.
As recent elections demonstrated, the mechanics of our electoral process work well and are worthy of all Americans’ trust. Instead of embracing this reality, President Trump has, for at least a decade, chosen to sow distrust in our elections, consistently calling election results into question when he or his preferred candidates do not win, and attacking some common methods of voting and administering elections as “fraudulent.”
Over the last 10 months, the president and his election denialist allies in the executive branch have gone to great lengths to weaken our electoral system in ways that certainly have the potential to undermine the will of American voters. At Campaign Legal Center, we have no intention of letting the administration implement its anti-democracy plans without putting up a serious fight.
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