Just dropped off my own ballot.
We’ve wisely taken to heart the persistent injunction that we need to create “a plan to vote.” And, to wit, Americans have been voting early in remarkably inspiring numbers.
And now it’s time—if one hasn’t already done so—to know one’s plan for the day after.
Barton Gellman has laid out in detail how Trump “could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the election” if the results are close. The constitution is alarmingly non-directive in terms of a peaceful transition of power. As legal scholar Lawrence Douglas writes, “Our Constitution does not secure the peaceful transition of power, but rather presupposes it.