All eyes were on Pennsylvania last fall as courts in our state resolved dozens of election disputes before and after the November 2020 election. The pre-election lawsuits largely contested 2019 statutory changes and COVID-19-related accommodations that made voting easier, like adding no-excuse absentee voting and allowing voters to deposit ballots in drop boxes. The post-election lawsuits sought to restrict counting of certain absentee ballots and eventually to block certification of Pennsylvania’s election results. The judges’ commitment to deciding these cases based on the evidence and the law, regardless of ideology, preserved American democracy. But the risk is not over.

Elected politicians continue to push false claims about the conduct of our elections while trying to make it more difficult to vote. Across the country, new statutes curtail citizens’ right to vote, eliminating conveniences like drop boxes and drive-through voting and imposing more restrictive ID requirements that segments of the population have difficulty meeting. Legislatures continue to allege fraud to justify further re-examinations of the 2020 presidential election, typically performed by politically connected people with no election experience.