Let's talk nonsense, shall we?

This was a quote from some unhinged liberal making shit up to scare people 

Statutory changes in large key electoral battleground states are dangerously politicizing the process of electoral administration, with Republican-controlled legislatures giving themselves the power to override electoral outcomes on unproven allegations should Democrats win more votes. They are seeking

to restrict access to the ballot, the most basic principle underlying the right of all adult American citizens to participate in our democracy. They are also putting in place criminal sentences and fines meant to intimidate and scare away poll workers and nonpartisan administrators. State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.

This is so bad it's almost funny. First there is nothing that "allows" legislation the power to override election results anymore than legislations have always had some power to control the process. There certainly is nothing in any of these laws that just allows the legislation to determine (without any evidence) that an election was fraudulent and give the electoral college vote to the other Party. 

The issue (as it always seems to be) is an insistence that there is never any election fraud and if you actually found evidence of any said fraud, that it would obviously be an "allegation" and no matter what would remain in the eyes of liberals as "unproven". These laws are providing much more oversight with real manners to actually question potentially fraudulent situations, which replaces a system that simply does not allow any real means to question anything or get anything done before looming safe harbor days. Many of the election lawsuits filed (in any election) tend to eventually become moot as they past safe harbor days, meaning any questions can be stalled in court. That is wrong, no matter which side of the aisle you are on. Running out the clock should not be a strategy for avoiding transparency.

Meanwhile no election official who isn't already cheating or not following the laws is going to be scared away from being an election official because cheating and not following the law will actually have criminal consequence. The concept that local election officials (who are anything but non-partisan) should not be held criminally liable for cheating or breaking the law is mindboggling. Yet, in many ways that is how it works. How the law reads and how it is implemented many times bear almost no resemblance. 2020 was an extreme example where election officials across many of these states took it upon themselves to offer "guidance" not consistent with the law, or even just blatantly altering written law. This is, in fact, breaking the law. Nobody but the legislature or a Governor under emergency powers should ever, under any circumstances, offer any guidance or make personal decisions that do not directly follow the law. 

For instance, no government official is allowed to offer guidance to the general public that it will be okay to drive 30 miles over the speed limit this weekend. No driver is allowed to take it upon themselves to ignore traffic laws for any reason. We would never consider anything remotely like this to be acceptable. Likewise, no election official should be able to tell someone that they do not have to follow election laws and no election worker should be allowed to take it upon themselves to simply follow or not follow the law on their own discretion. If you are not willing to follow the law, then you should neither be an election official or election worker. 

But it is funny how this entire statement is simply a matter of saying that they believe that it's wrong that state legislatures are actually wanting transparency, honesty, and consistency in how these elections are run. Moreover, this statement strongly suggests that officials and workers should be allowed to break election laws without consequence. 

It's nonsense. Plain and simple.