This was always going to happen. Leaving the enforcement of this very federal matter to the individual states would have terrible consequences. No one wants Abbot or DeSantis to have this power, because they would immediately abuse it by declaring anyone but trump unfit for the ballot based entirely on lies and fever dreams.
Of course the ultra shitty consequence is that we're stuck with the equally fucked-by-insane-people Congress's complete inability to act.
"Let me show you a little trick I call the photoelectric effect" ::lightsaber noises: