They were for it before they were against it. The landmark election law that expanded mail-in voting in Pennsylvania was a Republican bill shepherded by Republican legislative leaders, passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly in October 2019 with the votes of nearly every Republican legislator. Then President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Warshaw quote âWhatâs unfolded is bizarre,â said Shirley Anne Warshaw, a political scientist and presidential scholar at Gettysburg College and author of 10 books on the presidency. âSome people are leery that votes in all of our elections can be tampered with. Itâs just not true.â In the months since, many of those same Republicans joined a series of unprecedented attacks on the validity of the electoral system they helped create. GOP lawmakers have, since Nov. 3, amplified baseless conspiracy theories, asked the U.S. Congress to overrule voters, and petitioned state and federal judges to undo their own legislation.