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You're right. 100% it's scary. The stuff far-right Republicans are pulling today is right out of the worst authoritarian handbook you could find. It's the kind of control crap which could even one day, if they ever were able to get the power, lead to the FEMA concentration camps assholes as Alex Jones totally baselessly and accused the left of plotting.

"One of the key ways that Trump-inspired state lawmakers have tried to sabotage future elections is by changing the rules to give legislatures control over vote counts. In Pennsylvania, a bill passed in the wake of Trump’s defeat that sought to rewrite the state’s election law was vetoed by Democratic governor Tom Wolf.

Now hard-right lawmakers are trying to bypass Wolf’s veto power by proposing a constitutional amendment that would give the legislature the power to overrule the state’s chief elections officer and create a permanent audit of election counts subject to its own will."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/23/voter-suppression-election-interference-republicans

They are actually today doing as much as they can to totally corrupt the American electoral system.

It's up to the those in the US who care for the democratic process to make sure that message gets through to the American consciousness.

It was good to read in that article that organizations of Americans are doing their very best to do exactly that.

If people can be brainwashed into a lie as Trump has been so successful at, then many of those same people
must be susceptible to the truth too. The Jan. 6 Commission is working on that as well as any could.