Disputed Presidential Elections and the Collapse of Constitutional Norms
This Article exposes the vulnerabilities of the legal framework governing Congress’s role in resolving disputed presidential elections: the Electoral Count Act of 1887. It first illustrates just how easy it could be for unscrupulous political actors to reverse the results of a presidential election by exploiting the Act’s weaknesses. It then offers a blueprint for a redesigned Electoral Count Modernization Act that protects the process of presidential elections, as well as it can, from that exploitation.