Republicans are making significant gains on election integrity through a broad, multipronged strategy centered on prioritizing engagement with state legislatures, courtrooms, and redistricting fights, despite the SAVE America Act, election legislation backed by President Donald Trump, showing few signs of life in the Senate.
The shift became especially clear over the past two weeks — first when the Supreme Court narrowed the legal force of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, and again last week when the Supreme Court of Virginia struck down a Democratic redistricting referendum that could have dramatically reshaped the state’s congressional delegation ahead of the midterm elections.
Put together, the rulings underscored how the conservative election integrity movement has run a contingency plan to reshape elections while the Trump-backed legislation languishes in Congress.
Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, said his group has pursued a decentralized strategy focused on
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