It's not the number of votes, it's who counts the votes

Republicans are quietly working to oversee important elections.

There’s a reason low-level elected offices, like school boards and university student councils, are where the most out-there extremists seem to make their mark. So few people care about these elections that a small but highly motivated group of voters can can get their people actually elected to something.

Once elected they can make their mark in ways such as declaring Abraham Lincoln too doubleplusungood to have a school named after him or banning cystic fibrosis fundraising campaigns from campus because it’s a disease that allegedly affects mostly white people. But at least they don’t have the power to overthrow results of democratic elections, no matter how much they might want to.

There are state- and county-level elected offices in which people do oversee the counting of ballots. And guess who’s quietly infiltrating these offices while no one notices?

In Michigan, local GOP leaders have sought to reshape election canvassing boards by appointing members who expressed sympathy for …