Altschuler and Corrales say White House rewarded election disruptors
The op-ed, published Sunday under the title “How to plan for an election that leaders are trying to subvert,” described the administration’s actions as forming a coherent strategy. Altschuler and Corrales said the White House has disabled the federal agencies charged with protecting election integrity, extended executive control over voter registration, and threatened to withhold terrorism prevention funding from states that do not change their voting rules.
“Protectors of democracy must have a counter-plan of their own,” the authors wrote.
The scholars also said the administration has rewarded individuals who used violence to disrupt the last transfer of power. They did not name specific individuals.
The op-ed frames the administration’s approach as operating on multiple fronts, each aimed at changing who can vote and how votes are counted. The article appears in the Comment is free section of The Guardian, a British daily newspaper.