Election law experts say the presidency could be stolen - by entirely
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How to Steal a Presidential Election
Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman
"Unless we are clear-eyed about the threat of election sabotage we
cannot defeat it. This invaluable book provides the roadmap we need to
defend our elections."
-Norm Eisen, senior fellow, Brookings Institution
From two distinguished experts on election law, How to Steal a
Presidential Election is an alarming look at how the American presidency
could be stolen-by entirely legal means.
Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, the idea that
a couple thousand disorganized protestors storming the U.S. Capitol
might actually prevent a presidential succession was far fetched. Yet
perfectly legal ways of overturning election results actually do exist,
and they would allow a political party to install its own candidate in
place of the true winner.
Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman work through every option available
for subverting a presumptively legitimate result-from
vice-presidential intervention to election decertification and beyond.
While many strategies would never pass constitutional muster, Lessig and
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the system, including one that could be corrected only by the Supreme
Court.
Any strategy aimed at hacking a presidential election is a threat to
democracy. This book is a clarion call to shore up the insecure system
for electing the president before American democracy is forever
compromised.
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"Two of our greatest election experts draw a deeply informed yet
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surmounts its culture of bad faith."
-Jack Goldsmith, coauthor of After Trump: Reconstructing the
Presidency
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