Threats to U.S. elections—including disinformation, political violence, and other efforts to undermine public confidence in the election—have grown in recent years, and Lawfare’s coverage has grown with them. Find our articles, podcasts, and other projects on elections, and the efforts to subvert them, compiled below.
Please note that Lawfare’s coverage of related issues, including Section 3 challenges to former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to be a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, the federal prosecution of Trump due to his alleged actions to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election, the Fulton County prosecution of Trump and co-defendants to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, and the accountability efforts in Congress, the criminal courts, and civil litigation for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, have their own dedicated pages linked throughout this paragraph.
Latest in Election Coverage
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A Lurking Threat: State Emergency Powers in Elections
The authority to both define state emergencies and exercise state statutory emergency powers rests almost entirely with America’s governors. When emergencies—real or supposed—and elections intersect, sta... -
Correcting Misconceptions About the Electoral Count Reform Act
The new bipartisan bill is a substantial improvement over the 1887 Electoral Count Act. -
First Nixon, Then Trump: The Serious Problem of the President-as-Candidate
Deceptive campaign tactics and dirty tricks cut more deeply into democracy when a president—rather than any other candidate—engages in them. -
Trump’s Judicial Campaign to Upend the 2020 Election: A Failure, But Not a Wipe-Out
While Trump lost the 2020 election litigation battle, he received more judicial support than you might think. -
A Brief History of Online Influence Operations
What does the history of online influence operations reveal about how to tackle disinformation? -
How Identity Propaganda Is Used to Undermine Political Power
Racist and sexist attacks on Kamala Harris in 2020 reveal long-established patterns of “othering” nondominant groups and individuals. These patterns are designed to undermine the political standing of po...
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