Two yes and: States have to certify the whole stack. Even without (electronic) voting machines, the state can deny the ballot production, tabulation, etc, soft

Two yes and: States have to certify the whole stack. Even without (electronic) voting machines, the state can deny the ballot production, tabulation, etc, softwares. There are no longer political parties as the layperson understands it. Oftentimes, local and state orgs are antogonists with their own electeds. Electeds mosdef don't feel any obligation to those orgs. Rather, electeds protect their own power, their caucus, their fund raising cartels, and mosdef their powerful donors and lobbyists. More often than not, against the expressed positions of the orgs. Source: member of my local party's exec board, was also a candidate for office.