![]() Millions of Trump’s Republican supporters now believe the false claim of a stolen election, and some Republican elected officials have pursued sham “audits” and taken other steps that undermine voter confidence in the fairness of the election process. The conduct of former President Donald 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. Few cases have emerged in at least the last fifty years of actual election sabotage by election officials, 1 leading to an election loser being declared the election winner, despite other unique pathologies of American election administration. Until recently, it would have been absurd to raise the possibility of such election subversion or a stolen election in the United States. The potential mechanisms by which election losers may be declared election winners are: (1) usurpation of voter choices for President by state legislatures purporting to exercise constitutional authority, possibly with the blessing of a partisan Supreme Court and the acquiescence of Republicans in Congress (2) fraudulent or suppressive election administration or vote counting by law- or norm-breaking election officials and (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. 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. ![]() The United States faces a serious risk that the 2024 presidential election, and other future U.S. ![]()
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