We’re within the closing days of a momentous presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Are you aware whether or not your elected officers will settle for the end result?
WIRED reached out to each single senator and member of the US Congress asking whether or not they would settle for the outcomes of the election as known as by the Related Press. Why the AP? As a result of within the absence of a nationwide election authority, calls made by the AP—a nonprofit cooperative—have lengthy been accepted as authoritative. We needed one thing politically impartial, notably as a result of some native and state-level officers have indicated that they might not certify the outcomes.
You possibly can lookup your zip code or state within the search bar beneath to seek out your congressional consultant and senator, in addition to their response to our query about whether or not they may settle for the AP’s outcomes. In some situations, your zip code could not match your present congressional district, as district boundaries can change over time.
We organized the legislators’ responses into three classes: those that will settle for the outcomes of the elections as reported by the AP, those that received’t, and people who haven’t responded. This can be a residing doc, and we’ll proceed to replace it with responses from representatives as we proceed to obtain them. When attainable, we’re additionally together with the total responses from lawmakers so as to add additional context to their responses. As an example, some lawmakers could say that they may settle for the outcomes when states certify however not based mostly on the AP name.
A notice is connected to the outcomes of all lawmakers who signed the “Unity Dedication” in September, vowing to certify the outcomes after “all authorized means” to problem the end result “have been exhausted.” Moreover, the outcomes point out if a lawmaker beforehand declared a dedication “to certifying the election outcomes” as a part of a USA Immediately ballot carried out in mid-October.
It’s the primary presidential election for the reason that January 6, 2021, rebel, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and baselessly claimed the election had been stolen.
Within the interceding years, election denial has gone from being the purview of fringe conspiracists to a staple of main figures on the American proper. Trump has already indicated plans to problem election outcomes this yr, and a whole bunch of Republican candidates for workplace have forged doubt on them as properly. Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential candidate, has mentioned that he wouldn’t have licensed the 2020 election until states had despatched different pro-Trump electors.
Election officers throughout the nation have delayed or refused the certification of state and native election outcomes. Conspiracy theories in regards to the outcomes of the 2024 election have already flooded the web, as election denial teams, the Trump marketing campaign, and folks similar to billionaire and X proprietor Elon Musk have unfold falsehoods about election fraud.
Within the face of the confirmed willingness of Trump and his allies to try to grab energy after shedding an election, an announcement from elected officers that they may settle for the outcomes of the election as declared by a impartial arbiter is vital info for voters getting ready to forged their ballots.
Dell Cameron, Vittoria Elliott, Leah Feiger, David Gilbert, Makena Kelly, and Dhruv Mehrotra contributed to this venture.
