“How Do You Actually Stop the Steal?; A new bipartisan bill would revise how the presidential vote is certified. But it could come with risky loopholes.”
Russell Berman for The Atlantic.
Category Archives: election subversion risk
“Momentum Builds for Overhaul of Rules Governing the Electoral Count”
Carl Hulse for the NYT:
Determined to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, backers of an overhaul of the federal law governing the count of presidential electoral ballots pressed lawmakers on Wednesday to repair… Continue reading
“Trump’s Pandora’s Box: Election-Denying Candidates are Refusing to Concede”
Axios on the new trend across the country. Here’s what I told them: “If people believe the other side is consistently stealing elections, first of all, you completely delegitimize people in office … but second, you create the conditions… Continue reading
“Trump Lawyer Proposed Challenging Georgia Senate Elections in Search of Fraud; On the day of President Biden’s inauguration, John Eastman suggested looking for voting irregularities in Georgia — and asked for help being paid the $270,000 he billed the Trump campaign.”
NYT:
John Eastman, the conservative lawyer whose plan to block congressional certification of the 2020 election failed in spectacular fashion on Jan. 6, 2021, sent an email two weeks later arguing that pro-Trump forces should sue to keep searching for… Continue reading
“Democrats face blowback after boosting far-right Michigan candidate”
WaPo:
Democrats faceda backlash Wednesday — including from within their own ranks — after inserting themselves into a GOP primary in western Michigan, helping a far-right candidate who has embraced false claims about the 2020 election to topple a Republican… Continue reading
“In 4 Swing States, G.O.P. Election Deniers Could Oversee Voting”
NYT:
With Tuesday’s primary victories in Arizona and Michigan added to those in Nevada and Pennsylvania, Republicans who have disputed the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and who pose a threat to subvert the next one are on a… Continue reading
“Several election deniers backed by Trump prevail in hotly contested primaries”
WaPo:
Several election deniers backed by former president Donald Trump prevailed in closely-watched primaries held Tuesday, as a nationwide battle over the future of the GOP played out in state and federal races across five states.In Michigan, Rep. Peter… Continue reading
“Arizona Officials Warned Fake Electors Plan Could ‘Appear Treasonous'”
NYT:
Two Arizona Republicans recruited by allies of former President Donald J. Trump to join an effort to keep him in office after he lost the 2020 election grew so concerned about the plan that they told lawyers working… Continue reading
“The Electoral Count Act must be fixed. A new proposal doesn’t go far enough.”
Larry Tribe, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Dennis Aftergut in WaPo opinion:
The law governing the counting of electoral votes in presidential elections is in desperate need of strengthening. But the changes now being considered in the Senate don’t go far enough.President… Continue reading
“State officials scramble to respond as election skepticism goes hyper-local”
Fredreka Schouten for CNN:
And as adherents of election skepticism have pushed their theories into more obscure corners of American democracy, state election officials are now scrambling to address the new challenges. They warn that these isolated pockets of resistance… Continue reading
Pam Karlan: “The Virtues of the Electoral Count Reform Act”
The following is a guest post from Pam Karlan, now back at Stanford:
The Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA) is a vast improvement over the existing Electoral Count Act of 1887, whose ambiguities and gaps became evident during… Continue reading
“Trump-Backed Conspiracy Theorist Vies to Take Over Arizona Elections”
NYT:
This spring, Mark Finchem traveled to Mar-a-Lago for the premiere of a documentary advancing the specious notion that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from President Donald J. Trump by an army of leftists stuffing drop boxes with… Continue reading
“Michigan secretary of state: Attempts to block election certification will be ‘futile'”
Detroit News:
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says her office will not tolerate any effort to obstruct the certification of Tuesday’s primary election based on “partisan games” or “baseless lies.”“Any attempts to block the certification of our… Continue reading
My New One at Slate: “The Collins-Manchin Election Bill Is a Deal Democrats Should Grab”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Last week’s announcement by a bipartisan group of senators proposing reforms to the poorly written 1887 law that governs Congress’ counting of the Electoral College votes is a good half-loaf measure… Continue reading