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.
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Election Administration Challenges in Ohio
Ohio seems to have handled the influx of mail ballots and other coronavirus challenges decently well in its 2020 primaries. Will the same hold true in November? -
Election Administration Challenges in Florida
Florida’s experience voting during the coronavirus pandemic provides a glimpse of some of the issues that have arisen as election officials attempt to expand the availability of mail balloting. -
Election Administration Challenges in North Carolina
What can North Carolina's March primary tell us about November? -
Online Voting Wasn’t Ready for 2020. Don’t Count on It Anytime Soon.
Online voting is far from ready to be rolled out in U.S. elections. What can be done in the meantime? -
New Mexico’s 2020 Primary in the Wake of the Coronavirus
What challenges does New Mexico face ahead of the general elections? -
Rehearsal for November: An Analysis of 17 August State Elections
In states with primary and runoff elections in August, the process went more smoothly than in earlier primary elections.