How Trump Is Already Setting The Groundwork To Challenge The 2024 Election Results If He Loses

With a month and change to go before the election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his allies are already laying the groundwork to contest the results of the 2024 election if he loses by engaging in a false campaign around the threat of noncitizen voting. Melissa Sue Gerrits via Getty Images In the absence of any actual evidence of widespread noncitizen voting, the lawsuits brought by Trump’s allies rely on faulty data, misreadings of election law and outright fabrication to argue that election officials must purge their voter rolls with weeks to go in the election. “They’ve found themselves in a place where either their candidates or their views are becoming less and less popular, so they’ve got to manipulate folks outside the regular issues.” The Lawsuits Fontes’ office is a target — along with every county election officer in Arizona — of a lawsuit brought by Miller’s America First Legal Foundation that seeks to require the state’s federal election voters to provide citizenship documents. “ is the lever that election conspiracy theorists see as the best opportunity if they don’t like the choice the voters have made” - Ben Berwick, Protect Democracy Instead, as the United Sovereign Americans lawsuits make plain, any effort to contest the outcome of the election this year would run through efforts by local GOP election officials refusing to certify the election. “We’ve got a little bit of a hammer here in Arizona in that we’re kind of operating under the FAFO rule — mess around and find out,” Fontes said, using an acronym for the phrase “fuck around and find out.” Second, county-level certification refusals do not impact state executive decisions to certify the statewide results, meaning states could go ahead and confirm their electoral votes no matter what the county officials choose to do.