Voter Fraud

The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency.

The Justice Department is reportedly using a civil-rights law that “puts front and center the injury to the American people,” rather than to the government.

Republican-led legislatures and right-wing activists alike are making things more difficult for election officials.

In September, 2020, Donald Trump’s then chief of staff claimed to live in a mobile home in North Carolina.

After a failure of Democratic legislation, a voting-rights expert talks about options for safeguarding elections.

How do politicians contend with the weaknesses in the voting system without fuelling baseless claims of election fraud?

Whether or not the Attorney General prosecutes the former White House strategist, polls suggest that provocation is proving more politically effective than probity.

Don Bolduc, a retired Army general and candidate for Senate in New Hampshire, is one of many political aspirants who believe that the 2020 election was stolen.

Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.

Lawmakers who do not support Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the election will need to keep their wits about them.

Far too many Republicans are complicit in the President’s continuing efforts to overturn the election results.

If his goal is to retain the Presidency, the effort is a historic failure. But Trump has proved able to build a significant following for his claims.

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about voter fraud and the many myths surrounding it.

The election was not close, and the President’s claims of voter fraud are merely a distraction from his many recent failures.

Political scientists caution that, though a coup by the outgoing President is unlikely, Trump’s actions are causing dangerous democratic erosion.

Trump’s evidence of voter fraud.

In a pair of Senate runoffs, the incumbents, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, are clinging tightly to the lame-duck President, hoping his voters will turn out for them in January.

The Attorney General is the one Administration official with the power to discredit the President’s spurious legal claims.

As Trump’s litigation is unlikely to change the outcome of the election, Republicans are looking to strategies that might remain even after rebuffs both at the polls and in court.

“Why Would I Dare: The Trial of Crystal Mason,” a show about a woman accused of voter fraud, echoes Langston Hughes’s “The Ballot and Me.”