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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Kudos to Congress for Taking Election Security Seriously
By now most are familiar with the contours of Russian efforts to influence our elections. The use of social media by Russian (and also, apparently, by the Trump campaign) have resonated with many. -
Public Confidence in the Mueller Investigation and Other Russia Investigations is Growing, But the Large Partisan Divide Remains
In July, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. As part of this project, we asked a battery of questions in e... -
2018 Election Vulnerability: Voter Registration Systems
The Russian information-operation strategy can be summed up as “chaos monkeys”: agents seeking to destabilize the United States by exploiting fissures in our society. The Mueller indictments announced Fr... -
Elections are a Cybersecurity Problem
My good friend, Herb Lin, has suggested that “election interference is not a cybersecurity issue.” His point, with which I completely agree, is that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election was not the pro... -
Election Hacking, As We Understand It Today, Is Not A Cybersecurity Issue
At a Senate intelligence committee hearing in November on Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S. Elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said about Russian interference in the 2016 election, “What we're talkin... -
Public Confidence in the Mueller Investigations and Other Russia Investigations
In late November, as part of our monthly tracking of confidence in institutions engaged in national security activities, we polled for the second month on the question of “How much confidence do you have...
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