The president can’t simply cancel the fall balloting, but his state-level allies could still deliver him a second term.

This is not the first time the prospect of state legislatures ignoring the popular vote and appointing their own slate of electors has arisen.

The aftermath of November’s vote has the potential to make 2000 look like a mere skirmish.

Reports suggest strategy to bypass results in key states under discussion, but legal experts say such an effort is likely to fail

Sources told The Atlantic that the Trump campaign was planning to install loyal electors in swing states with Republican-led legislatures.

A 133-year-old law creates perverse incentives for the Trump administration—and could make a chaotic postelection period even more tumultuous.

State legislatures, for the protection of public health, could select the electors themselves — and which candidate might prevail then?

This Article considers the possibility that a major dispute over the outcome of the 2020 presidential election could arise, even without foreign interference or some other extraordinary event, but rather just from the ordinary process of counting ballots. Building upon previous research on the “blue shift” phenomenon, whereby adjustments in vote tallies during the canvassing of returns tends to advantage Democratic candidates, it is easy to imagine a dispute arising if this kind of “blue shift” were consequential in the presidential race. Using examples from both Pennsylvania and Arizona, two states susceptible to significant “blue shifts” in previous elections, the article shows how the dispute could reach Congress, where it potentially might metastasize into a full-fledged constitutional crisis. The most frightening scenario is where the dispute remains unresolved on January 20, 2021, the date for the inauguration of the new presidential term, and the military is uncertain as to who is entitled to receive the nuclear codes as commander-in-chief. In order to avoid this risk, Congress should amend the relevant statute, 3 U.S.C. § 15.

Republican leaders in Pennsylvania are scoffing at a recent story in The Atlantic and its implication that their...

The head of the state Republican Party raised the possibility that the GOP-controlled Legislature could choose a slate of presidential electors to cast the state’s votes for Donald Trump.

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?

Two distinguished Brennan Center officials offer reassurances that Trump can’t successfully contest an election loss. But until Trump’s party repudiates the attacks on voting by mail at the heart of his schemes, some risk remains.

The aftermath of November’s vote has the potential to make 2000 look like a mere skirmish.

President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition Wednesday comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps that threaten to undermine the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states.

Fifty state rules, close counts could scramble elections.

A road map to how Trump could use presidential powers to suppress turnout, postpone, or contest election — and what Americans can do about it.

States are the first line of defense in election-related disputes. But will they be able to prevent a constitutional crisis?

In this forecast update, Galen Druke explores whether we’ll have a good idea of who won on election night. Which states do we expect results from? And what coul…

In Florida, Georgia, and Arizona, the GOP goes a step further in its war on inconvenient democracy.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Trump campaign and Nevada Republicans asked a state judge on Friday to stop the count of Las Vegas-area mail-in ballots, alleging that “meaningful observation” of...

The challenge is one of many offensives brought by Republicans nationally against a wave of universal vote-by-mail initiatives.

Sen. Rick Scott thinks we should have less than 48 hours to count mail-in ballots.

The bill would require a 24-hour turnaround time from when polls close on election night, to when a state is required to both count and report all ballots.

Problem solved!

Senator Rick Scott introduced a bill that would require states to count and report all ballots within 24 hours after polls close on Election Day.

Trump has refused to agree to a "peaceful transition." Here’s how he could act on this rhetoric — and the odds that such a catastrophe becomes real.

Live coverage and analysis of the early vote, election problems, Republican efforts to limit voting access, and election results, ahead of Election Day, 2020.