How to Steal a Presidential Election

Lawrence Lessig, Matthew Seligman

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Yale University Press
01 July 2024

Elections & referenda; Central government; Political campaigning & advertising; Constitutional & administrative law; Election law

From two distinguished experts on election law, 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 farfetched. There are, however, perfectly legal ways of overturning election results that 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 Seligman explain the ways that some of them might. They expose correctable weaknesses in 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.

By: Lawrence Lessig, Matthew Seligman
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780300270792
ISBN 10: 0300270798
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for How to Steal a Presidential Election

“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 “Warning that America is still vulnerable to another January 6, Lessig and Seligman—two of the nation’s foremost constitutional experts on presidential elections—masterfully reverse engineer and then defuse the constitutional nuclear bomb aimed at the heart of America’s democracy.”—former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig “If you want to know how sinister actors could legally build the equivalent of a nuclear bomb to blow up presidential elections, this book provides a blueprint. Lessig and Seligman urge us to face up to our vulnerabilities and fix them before it’s too late.”—Richard H. Pildes, coauthor of The Law of Democracy