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I really hope that there are at least some official or public figures who are tasked with the job of doing something about it
That's exactly the problem: the MAGA fascists have been spending 4+ years going all-in on inserting their people into exactly those positions, up to and including SCOTUS. (And I don't just mean SCOTUS' conservative majority in general; I mean three of them literally helped perpetrate Bush v. Gore.) Are there enough non-traitorous officials left to effectively oppose them? I don't know! It sure doesn't seem like it here in Georgia, even despite Raffensperger and Kemp not bending the knee to the cult leader.
I'm also extremely worried that (a) we need to be a bunch of normal people to form an organized resistance that goes well beyond just voting (e.g. to become poll watchers as a counter-balance to the MAGA ones), but also (b) any such tactics (at least ones I can think of) to counter the MAGAs' election disruptions would themselves also be disruptive and thus play into the MAGAs' hands anyway.
In summary:
There apparently are some new rules non-fascist politicians have passed to try to shore up the certification process, but I fear they'll be "too little, too late." (In fact, they're so few that I can't even find a news article to cite about them right now...) As for us regular citizens, there's fuck-all we can do (at least that I can think of) to actively oppose the blatant attempted theft of the election, and instead we can only vote as if nothing is wrong and just sort of hope the MAGAs don't have enough manpower (despite election denialism continuing to spread!) to pull it off even without any interference.
I don't know of any fascist movement in history that has successfully been resisted by acting like it's business as usual in a normal functioning democracy and hoping for the best. But as far as I can tell, that's what we're doing.
The MAGAs only win if the big blue states play along. I know that's tantamount to civil war, but in the event of blatant election interference they should just refuse to accept the "new" federal government. Peaceful transition of power is a lie if the process is illegitimate.
the problem with this is anyone who goes along with these plans risks jail etc and any republican pols joining in will deligitimize their own elections. Theres also no guarantee trump will protect these people (rw news called the j6 folks "antifa" at first)
Way too many of the people who tried it last time not only remain at large, but weren't even removed from their positions of trust. It has only emboldened them to try again, harder.
Start organizing now!