Both extremes get it wrong on Trump’s election-heisting fantasy

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The radical Right’s “Independent State Legislature” theory about federal elections, primarily expressed by Donald Trump’s supporters, is, in its starkest form, a fantasy. Almost equally wrongheaded, though, are those who entirely dismiss even milder versions of the theory.

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