An election to upend elections
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🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today on Post Reports, we look at how voting is going across the country, what to expect on Tuesday, and what the results of the midterm election could mean for how future elections are run.
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We have spent a lot of time this week talking about the midterm election and which party is likely to gain control of the House and Senate next year. But the results of the election could also change how future elections are run.
That’s because a majority of Republican nominees on the ballot for the House, Senate and key statewide offices that oversee elections — 291 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, according to a Washington Post analysis.
And if some of these election deniers win their races, they’ll have the opportunity to oversee local and statewide elections — which voting reporter Amy Gardner says could have huge consequences for American democracy:
“Where we are in our democracy is that we trust our elections unless our candidate loses. And that is not a winning model for enduring democracy.”
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| 0:00.0 | We did a pretty ambitious project this year to document how many election |
| 0:06.8 | and I was running for statewide office with supervisory powers over elections or federal |
| 0:14.5 | office, i.e. US Senate or US House. |
| 0:18.3 | And we found that in a total of 569 races with a Republican candidate, more than half |
| 0:30.8 | our election deniers, 291. |
| 0:32.8 | Already. |
| 0:36.1 | Amy Gardner covers voting for the post. |
| 0:38.9 | We have spent a lot of time this week talking about the minterms and which party is likely |
| 0:43.2 | to control the House and Senate next year. |
| 0:45.8 | The stakes of the election are bigger than the political control of Congress. |
| 0:49.9 | If some of these election deniers win their races, they could become secretaries of state, |
| 0:54.8 | attorneys general, people with a lot of control over local and statewide elections, which could |
| 1:00.3 | have major consequences for American democracy. |
| 1:04.0 | Where we are in our democracy is that we trust our elections unless our candidate loses |
| 1:09.3 | and that is not a winning model for enduring democracy. |
| 1:17.6 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Postreports. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 1:21.9 | It's Friday, November 4th. |
| 1:24.3 | Today, we're giving you a look into how voting is already going across the country, what |
| 1:29.3 | we're expecting for Tuesday and what the results could mean for how future elections |
| 1:33.4 | are run. |
| 1:37.9 | So I was out in Nevada recently to write a story about a hand count that is actually now |
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