How to Steal a Presidential Election (Hardcover)

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by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman 

Description

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen--by entirely legal means.

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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 farfetched. 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.

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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 Seligman explain how some might. They expose correctable weaknesses in the system, including one that could be corrected only by the Supreme Court.

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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.

About the Author

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. 

Matthew Seligman is a fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a partner at Stris & Maher LLP.

Product Details

Category: Political Science

Language: English

Format/Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: New

ISBN-10: 0300270798  

ISBN-13: 978-0300270792

Publisher: Yale University Press

Date Published: February 13, 2024

Pages: 176

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