Does Trump Want Jim Crow Again
This Isn't Jim Crow ii.0
Ignore the phony partisan rhetoric. Washington needs to focus on the Balloter Count Human activity.
About the writer: Larry Hogan is the 62nd governor of Maryland.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both say that American democracy is at gamble, and that's truthful—but they're wrong about why. The problem isn't that our elections are broken or somehow illegitimate. The problem is that politicians continue to manipulate the truth most our elections to serve their own interests, while ignoring a serious—but resolvable—legal ambiguity.
To distinguish the partisan noise from the truth, you need first to separate our electoral system into its component parts: the process of enabling Americans to vote, the process of counting those votes, and finally, the system for certifying those results in communities beyond America and in Washington.
Biden and the Democratic leadership merits that what they call voter-suppression laws and "Jim Crow 2.0" are the real threat. During Jim Crow, poll taxes, arbitrary literary tests, and other devious tactics were used to prevent African Americans from registering to vote and casting their ballots.
Jim Crow was a terrible injustice and remains a stain on our land, just that is not where nosotros are today. The 2020 election had the highest voter turnout in the nation'southward history, including among Black, Latino, and Asian American voters; 59.4 percent of eligible African Americans voted, compared with 65.3 per centum of white Americans. And that discrepancy in the percentage of white and Black voters is partially reflective of age—white voters tend to be older, and older Americans are more likely to vote—not systematic disenfranchisement.
The voting-constabulary changes fabricated by country legislatures since 2020 also exercise not take the states back to Jim Crow. Many of these laws simply return voting practices to those in consequence earlier the pandemic. Are we actually supposed to believe that the voting laws in identify in 2012—when our nation's first Black president and so–Vice President Biden were reelected—are equivalent to Jim Crow? Democrats, including Biden, who make that comparison are denying the bully progress America has made in opening our electoral and political systems. Refusing to recognize this genuine progress is insulting to the legacy of courageous and persistent leaders who sacrificed so much to get us to where we are today.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to cast incertitude on the second component of our balloter system, the counting of the votes, past non facing the truth near the 2020 election. There is admittedly no evidence that any of the 2020 election results were fraudulent. No inaccuracies on the margins would have changed the outcome. The sometime president'south assertions are groundless. As Trump's own Department of Homeland Security stated, the 2020 election was "the most secure in American history." The upstanding officials who have spoken the truth most this deserve our thanks and admiration. Claims that our systems for counting votes in the states need to be reformed are, like charges of widespread voter suppression, not based in reality.
Biden and the Democrats utilise the memory of Jan 6 to pretend that their preferred reforms are necessary to stave off a return to systemic, racist voter suppression; Trump and his supporters use it to pretend that he was robbed of victory. Instead of pursuing their self-interested political agendas, our representatives in Washington demand to focus on fixing the part of our electoral system that actually did come under assail on that solar day. Ambivalence in an existing law chosen the Electoral Count Act, written most a century and a half ago, led the January 6 rioters to believe that they could change the result of a free and off-white election—which should worry every American. If that were the instance, a sitting vice president would be able to merely bless the ticket nominated by his or her party—which would be entirely at odds with our ramble system of transferring ability based on statewide pop votes. To finish this absurd notion, the process needs to be spelled out more than conspicuously in the statute. Thankfully, a bipartisan grouping of leaders is now focused on that outcome.
The shame of this moment is that all the posturing on display from leaders of both parties is impugning our autonomous arrangement, which is operating co-ordinate to the rule of constabulary and worked in 2020. More people are voting than always. Our processes for counting votes are resilient. Our courts nonetheless have the last give-and-take. Congress and leaders of both parties must cease exploiting the election of 2020 and the events of January 6 for partisan gain and first working together to fix the existent problems in our system.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/challenge-americas-electoral-system-college-count-act/621333/
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