the first is that this has nothing to do with voting rights and ballot access, this is about election subversion and making it harder to steal elections which many republicans are interested in. you will recall the vast majority of senate republicans did vote to certify the election of joe biden is it not go along with former president trump s attempts to steal the election. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has opened to door to this, encouraging these discussions saying this is directly what happened on january 6th. he has said that the electoral count act needs fixing, that it s clearly flawed and there is a template for success on this in the past. it s the bipartisan infrastructure law with a very similar group of senators working on this with mcconnell giving his blessing on the sidelines, eventually getting involved and that passed with a lot of support. now, there are pitfalls here. the single biggest pitfall is probably former president trump himself, he is known to be qu