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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The Lawfare Podcast: The Crisis Facing Efforts to Counter Election Disinformation
What are the challenges facing efforts to prevent the spread of election disinformation? -
A Battle for Better Information
Researchers working to mitigate online election lies are facing multifaceted attacks, but with 2024 looming, that critical work continues. -
The Lawfare Podcast: What Impact did Facebook Have on the 2020 Elections?
How much influence do social media platforms have on American politics and society? -
The Lawfare Podcast: Anna Bower on What Happened in Coffee County
How did a team end up taking election system data—in broad daylight—despite it being computer intrusion and theft? -
The Lawfare Podcast: Explaining the Michigan Fake Electors Prosecution
Why did Michigan become a center of conspiracy theories during the 2020 election? -
What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?
A detailed look back at the computer intrusion that features prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference indictment