NYC Election Fiasco Could Boost GOP in Election Law Battle | Eastern NC Now

James Antle of the Washington Examiner looks into one potential side effect of New York’s recent election controversy.

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    James Antle of the Washington Examiner looks into one potential side effect of New York's recent election controversy.

  • Former President Donald Trump took a victory lap after a discrepancy over test ballots threw New York City's Democratic primary for mayor into disarray.
  • "Watch the mess you are about to see in New York City, it will go on forever," Trump said in a statement issued through his political action committee on Wednesday. "They should close the books and do it all over again, the old-fashioned way, when we had results that were accurate and meaningful."
  • But the New York City Board of Elections's struggles with the first contest to feature ranked-choice voting also has broader implications for Republicans opposed to Democratic legislation they claim would amount to a federal takeover of elections. Many Republicans are instead supportive of a series of state-level bills described as curtailing voter fraud.
  • To them, the failure to clear 135,000 test ballot images, which led to the since-retracted reporting of results that reduced the lead of Democratic front-runner Eric Adams, illustrates the problems they say need to be addressed in liberal jurisdictions across the country.
  • "It calls into question the competence of all Democrats who administer elections," said Republican strategist John Feehery. "And these guys want to federalize this kind of incompetence? Give me a break."
  • The Democrats' For the People Act passed the House earlier this year but failed to overcome a Senate filibuster. Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat from West Virginia, sided with his party on advancing the bill but said he would oppose its final passage if it made it to the Senate floor.
  • Democrats argued that the bill was necessary to curb partisan gerrymandering, correct campaign finance laws that give too much influence to corporations and the wealthy, and prevent state-level assaults on voting rights. Republicans countered that it was a liberal wish list mainly intended to rewrite election rules in favor of the Democrats. ...

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