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The 2020 debates about delaying federal elections due to emergencies led to a greater understanding of the legal mechanisms for changing election dates.
Fifty-one former U.S. intelligence officials signed an October 19, 2020 public statement saying the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop reporting “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information...
Federal and legal scholarship agrees that a minority of states have statutes that expressly let a specified state official postpone or reschedule elections in an emergency, and multiple government and...
A postponed or cancelled U.S. midterm would be constitutionally fraught and politically seismic: the Constitution delegates election administration to the states but leaves a "residual and superseding...
No U.S. president has ever lawfully delayed a scheduled federal election by invoking emergency powers, and there is no statutory or constitutional emergency power that expressly authorizes a president...