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Trump Is Everywhere

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Trial Balloon · Ep. 190: Trump Is Everywhere

Election Meltdown

August 22, 2019 · 10:50 am ET · Leave a Comment

Out early next year: Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy by Rick Hasen.

Hasen to Politico: “I don’t think folks realize how norm-based and tenuous are our rules for peaceful transitions of power and acceptance of election results by the losers of the election. Internal and external forces, and not just Trump, have eroded trust in how we conduct our elections and count ballots, and we cannot take it as a given that losers will accept the 2020 results (whether that’s Trump who might lose narrowly in Wisconsin or Democrats who might complain about voter suppression costing them Georgia).”

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Election Meltdown
Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
by Richard L. Hasen · Yale University Press · 2020
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