Coordination by Democratic officials overseeing elections includes Zoom calls and in-person tabletop exercises
Democratic state attorneys general, other top state officials and civic groups have accelerated planning to thwart any federal meddling in the November midterm elections by Donald Trump as he continues his false charges of widespread voting fraud and veiled threats of interfering in the process.
Since early this year, 24 Democratic attorneys general have expanded coordination with about a dozen Democratic secretaries of state and several civic groups using weekly Zoom calls and in-person tabletop exercises to strategize about countering any federal intervention in the elections.
The enhanced cooperation is significant because secretaries of state are responsible for supervising elections and state state attorneys general are charged with defending the laws governing them. The coordination efforts by the state officials are being spearheaded by the Progressive State Leaders Committee (PSLC), the public policy arm of the Democratic Attorneys General Association.
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