January 10, 2022 THE LATEST 
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently opened the door to cooperating with Democrats on a key issue ahead of the next presidential election — fixing the confusing language in the law that governs how Congress counts electoral votes. But Democrats should hesitate before jumping at McConnell's offer if it means abandoning other fixes to election laws, Hayes Brown writes.
"McConnell knows better than anyone that reforming the Electoral Count Act absent 'all the other things' Democrats want in terms of voting rights would be a new coat of paint on a house that’s about to collapse," Brown writes. "McConnell’s modus operandi throughout his years in the Senate has been to block, stymie and otherwise subvert changes to federal election law that he believes would disadvantage Republicans. In his view, anything beyond the status quo — whether it’s more transparent elections or easier voter participation — must be treated as a partisan attack and defeated."
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