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Sohn: Amid the chaos of COVID-19 comes politics

Idaho Statesman photo via AP / Anti-masker demonstrators converge on Central District Health offices in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday to the protest a meeting deciding on more mandates to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Idaho Statesman photo via AP / Anti-masker demonstrators converge on Central District Health offices in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday to the protest a meeting deciding on more mandates to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Is the whole country going nuts?

Texas is suing Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan because some Texas Republicans don’t like the way most Georgians and the majority of folks in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan voted. They voted for Joe Biden rather than Donald Trump.

What’s more, the Republican attorneys general in 16 other red states – including Tennessee and Alabama – joined in the lawsuit with Texas in a hail-Mary effort to bolster the desperate legal maneuvering to delay certification of the presidential electors in the four battleground states Trump lost.

In short, the red states are trying to block the votes cast in the blue states. It’s nuts.

Basically giving up on the claims of widespread voting fraud (because there was none), this lawsuit takes aim at the way the sued states ran their elections: “Whatever doubt there is about fraud by voters or political operatives,” the suit asserts, “there is no doubt that the officials of the Defendant States changed the rules of the contest in an unauthorized manner.”