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Voter Fraud

The Lede

How Arizona’s Maricopa County Became the Battleground for Election Conspiracies

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.
Q. & A.

How Prosecutors Might Charge Trump for January 6th

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.
Daily Comment

The Ongoing Electoral Efforts to Up the Anti-Democratic Ante

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

Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside?

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

Is There a Future for Voting-Rights Reform?

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

The Catch-22 of Addressing Election Security

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

Garland vs. Bannon Is Bidenism vs. Trumpism

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

The Republicans Running to Support Donald Trump

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.
A Reporter at Large

The Big Money Behind the Big Lie

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

A Test for Congress’s Commitment to Democracy

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

Trump’s Authoritarian Moment Is Here

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

Trump’s Election-Fraud Bluster Finds an Audience

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.
Double Take

Sunday Reading: Voter Fraud

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

What Does Trump Get Out of Contesting Biden’s Win?

The election was not close, and the President’s claims of voter fraud are merely a distraction from his many recent failures.
Election 2020

The Long-Term Damage of Trump’s Antidemocratic Lies

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

Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 13th

Trump’s evidence of voter fraud.
Campaign Chronicles

Georgia Republicans Turn Trump’s Baseless Claims of Voter Fraud Into an Electoral Strategy

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.
Daily Comment

William Barr Can Stop Donald Trump’s Attempted Coup

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

How Far Could Republicans Take Trump’s Claims of Election Fraud?

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.
The Theatre

Reënacting the Trial of a Black Woman Convicted of Voter Fraud

“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.”