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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Can We Count on the Court If Democracy Is at Stake?
No, the Court has proved over the years—and especially over the past year—that we can’t. -
Iran Hack Illuminates Long-Standing Trends—and Raises New Challenges
Iran’s sustained digital interference in U.S. elections now includes hack-and-leak tactics. Here’s how its strategy has evolved over time. -
Green Lights and Red Lines: Responding to Iran’s Election Hacking
The United States should set a precedent that deters more attacks on U.S. electoral campaigns. -
The Hacking of the Trump Campaign Is 2016 All Over Again
How much is different from 2016, and will the institutions that stumbled then—the press, the intelligence community, and the campaigns—do any better this time around? -
Election Redos Are a Big Problem for Voter Rights—and Democracy
The alarming trend of election redos is bigger than any one race, county, or even state. -
Trump’s Classified Documents Case Moves Public Opinion. Now Voters Are Unlikely to Hear It.
Republicans and independents who heard from Trump’s federal prosecutor became more supportive of the prosecution. Trump’s anti-prosecution rhetoric, by contrast, failed to increase support for the former...
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