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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdentifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in Contemporary US
https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=475067021089025022010016024025121005125033039077095007109010102022025018089068083027011106020047055036105027076125028067064103098057087032023080005078123077043076028092116002095026003084065097002121093001006123026095096093030070102008111091&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUEAuthor Rick Hasen also has a thread
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I have written a new draft paper, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf , "Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States," in connection with @UCILaw's Sept. 24 conference on Election Subversion. calendar.law.uci.edu/event/fefs_ele /1
Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3926381
FEFS | Election Subversion: Is American Democracy in Danger?
This half-day virtual conference considers a new danger to American democracy that emerged during the 2020 election season: the risk to the fair counting and certification of votes. The Fair Election
https://calendar.law.uci.edu/event/fefs_election_subversion_is_american_democracy_in_danger?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=UC+Irvine+School+of+Law+Events#.YUih22ZKjuS
Abstract: The US faces a serious risk that the 2024 presidential election, and other future U.S. elections, will not be conducted fairly, and that the candidates taking office will not reflect the free choices made by eligible voters under previously announced election rules. /2
The potential mechanisms by which election losers may be declared election winners are: /3
(1) usurpation of voter choices for President by state legislatures purporting to exercise constitutional authority to do so, possibly blessed by a partisan-divided Supreme Court and acquiesced to by Republicans in Congress; /4
(2) fraudulent or suppressive election administration or vote counting by law- or norm-breaking election officials; and /5
(3) violent or disruptive private action that prevents voting, interferes with the counting of votes, or interrupts the assumption of power by the actual winning candidate. /6
Until recently, it would have been absurd to raise the possibility of such election subversion or a stolen election in the United States. Few cases have emerged in at least the last 50 years in the United States of actual election subversion by election officials, /7
leading to an election loser being declared the election winner, despite other unique pathologies of American election administration. /8
Ironically, the conduct of former President Donald J. Trump in repeatedly and falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen has markedly raised the potential for an actual stolen election in the United States. /9
Millions of Trumps Republican supporters now believe the false claim of a stolen election, and some Republican elected officials have pursued bogus sham audits and taken other steps that undermine voter confidence in the fairness of the election process. /10
Threats of violence and intimidation have led to unprecedented attrition among election administrators, and some exiting officials are being replaced by those who may not have allegiance to the integrity of the election system. /11
Those Republican election officials who stood up to Trump in 2020 and saved the United States from a potential constitutional and political crisis have been censured, stripped of power, and challenged for office by those embracing the Big Lie. /12
Together, these actions serve both to delegitimate the election of Democrats including President Joe Biden in 2020 and to open the door to election manipulation in future elections. /13
Elected officials, election officials, and others believing or purporting to believe the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen may seek to justify subverting future election results in response to earlier purported fraud. /14
The solutions to these problems are both legal and political. Legal changes should include: (1) paper ballot, chain-of-custody, and transparency requirements, including risk-limiting audits of election results; /15
(2) rules limiting the discretion of those who certify the votes, including Congress through reform of the Electoral Count Act; (3) rules limiting the over-politicization of election administration, especially by state legislatures; /16
(4) increased criminal penalties imposed on those who tamper with federal elections or commit violence or intimidation of voters, elected officials, or elected candidates; and /17
(5) rules countering disinformation about elections, particularly disinformation about when, where, and how people vote. /18
In addition, it will be necessary to organize for political action to reenforce rule-of-law norms in elections. This means advocating for laws that deter election subversion and against laws making stolen elections easier; /19
politically opposing would-be election administrators who embrace false claims about stolen elections; and preparing for mass, peaceful protests in the event of attempts to subvert fair election outcomes. /20
Part I of this Essay describes the path to this unexpected moment of democratic peril in the United States. Part II explains the five potential mechanisms by which American elections may be subverted in the future. /21
Part III recommends steps that can and should be taken to minimize this risk. Preserving and protecting American democracy from the risk of election subversion should be at the top of everyones agenda. The time to act is now, before American democracy disappears. /22
We will be talking about these same issues at the @UCILaw Fair Elections and Free Speech Center virtual conference on Election Subversion risks this Friday, Sept. 24. Free registration here: calendar.law.uci.edu/event/fefs_ele Conference agenda: law.uci.edu/centers/fefs/i /23
FEFS | Election Subversion: Is American Democracy in Danger?
This half-day virtual conference considers a new danger to American democracy that emerged during the 2020 election season: the risk to the fair counting and certification of votes. The Fair Election
https://calendar.law.uci.edu/event/fefs_election_subversion_is_american_democracy_in_danger?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=UC+Irvine+School+of+Law+Events#.YUih22ZKjuS
The Sept. 24 @UCILaw conference on election subversion will open up with my interviewing @GaSecofState and @LongoriaTx /24
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The second panel at Sept. 24 @UCILaw conference on election subversion brings in experts on democracy and authoritarianism including @LarryDiamond @GretchenHlmk @levitsky2 @julia_azari /25
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The third panel at Sept. 24 @UCILaw conference on election subversion turns to solutions and speaks to experts on law, politics, and Congress: Bob Bauer, Ben Ginsberg, @SarahLongwell25 @MaraLiasson /26
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The final panel at Sept. 24 @UCILaw conference on election subversion asks what's legally and constitutionally possible with: @ProfGuyCharles @michaelmorley11 @JNelsonLDF Rick Pildes and @Nedfoley /27
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If you want more information about the work of the @UCILaw Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, which I co-direct with the great @davidakaye, check this out: law.uci.edu/centers/fefs/ /28
And here's @ThePlumLineGS, discussing my new paper on Election Subversion, and tying it into the urgent need for legislation to fix the Electoral Count Act and avoid messing with the presidential vote certification in the future: /28
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/
I also signed up for the free webinar on September 24th.
https://calendar.law.uci.edu/event/fefs_election_subversion_is_american_democracy_in_danger?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=UC+Irvine+School+of+Law+Events#.YUjiqC1Hbxz
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