That local officials are turning routine administrative tasks into partisan judgments may portend wider problems
, in New Mexico, is home to fewer than 70,000 people. Yet the rural municipality found unfortunate fame recently when local officials refused to certify the results of their primary elections, held on June 7th. New Mexico’s secretary of state, Maggie Toulouse Oliver, swiftly asked the state Supreme Court to compel the county commissioners to certify the results. They eventually voted 2-1 to do so. Couy Griffin was the lone dissenter.
. Election administration in America was not free of partisanship before Mr Trump began peddlingthat he beat Joe Biden in 2020. In eras past, political machines and defenders of Jim Crow laws in the South “put their thumbs on the scale to help their party”, says Kevin Johnson, executive director of the Election Reformers Network , a non-profit group. In many other countries today, non-partisan commissions run elections.
Two related developments have transformed election administration from a mostly bureaucratic endeavour into a partisan battleground. The first was the pressure that Mr Trump exerted on election officials to declare his victory in 2020. The hearings run by the House of Representatives committee
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