A collage depicting key moments from the 2020 U.S. election, including Donald Trump, the Capitol riots, 'Stop the Steal' protesters, and the vote counting process.
2024-09-12 2700词 晦涩
Mr Sterling works for Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, whose main job is to administer elections. After the election of 2020, but before Congress had certified the outcome, Mr Raffensperger received a now-infamous phone call from Donald Trump, who was president at the time, asking for help to “find” enough votes to flip the result in the state in his favour. Mr Raffensperger demurred, and Mr Trump tried instead to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in other ways, without success. Mr Trump and other Republicans are already signalling that they will dispute the result again this year if defeated. Election officials like Mr Sterling, as well as legions of party functionaries, lawyers and activists, are working on the assumption that there will indeed be attempts to subvert the election this year, and have been preparing accordingly. How will the electoral machinery hold up?
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