Voter Fraud
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.
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.”
Campaign Chronicles
The Battle to Count All of Wisconsin’s Absentee Votes
In addition to the complications of running an election during a pandemic, Wisconsin has some of the country’s most restrictive voting rules.