Election Meltdown

Rick Hasen gives four reasons for increasing distrust in our election system in his new book, Election Meltdown:

1. Voter suppression has escalated as a Republican tool aimed to depress turnout of likely Democratic voters, fueling suspicion;
2. Pockets of incompetence in election administration—often in large cities controlled by Democrats—have created an opening to claims of unfairness;
3. Old-fashioned and new-fangled dirty tricks, including foreign and domestic misinformation campaigns via social media, threaten electoral integrity; and
4. Inflammatory rhetoric about “stolen” elections supercharges distrust among hardcore partisans.

Election Meltdown

Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy

by Richard L. Hasen · Yale University Press · 2020

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