A-02 — Election Integrity

Generalized Institutional Concern

The election system remains vulnerable to federal executive interference, delegitimization of lawful results, pressure on election officials, disruption of certification, misuse of civil or criminal process, districting distortions, structural distortions in presidential selection, opaque or disproportionate political spending, candidate gatekeeping, and efforts to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power.

Active Issues

• ELEC-001 — Federal Executive Interference with State and Local Election Administration
• ELEC-002 — Pressure on Certification and Canvassing Officials
• ELEC-003 — Insufficient Protection for Election Workers and Officials
• ELEC-004 — Abuse of Election Litigation and Civil Process
• ELEC-005 — Weak Safeguards Against False Presidential Result-Transmission Documents
• ELEC-006 — Insufficiently Automatic Presidential-Transition Procedures
• ELEC-007 — Improper Federal-Force Presence in Election Administration
• ELEC-008 — Accountability for Coordinated Federal Election-Subversion Schemes
• ELEC-009 — Electoral College Structure and National Popular Vote
• ELEC-010 — Mail-In Voting Access, Reliability, and Trust
• ELEC-011 — Algorithmic Redistricting Baseline and Representation Safeguards
• ELEC-012 — Campaign Finance, Dark Money, and Corporate Political Spending
• ELEC-013 — Federal Candidate Access, Ballot Access, and Debate Gatekeeping
• ELEC-014 — Limiting Federal Criminal Investigations into State-Administered Elections
• ELEC-015 — Ranked-Choice Voting and Majority-Choice Election Methods

Issue Boundaries

• Political-status boundary. District of Columbia statehood and the choice of Puerto Rico's final political status are political outcomes outside ARRP's scope. A-02 may still address election administration, ballot access, certification, voter protection, campaign finance, redistricting, or another neutral election-system defect affecting either jurisdiction when the remedy does not presuppose statehood or another final-status result.

• ELEC-001 concerns civilian executive interference through presidential authority, agencies, investigations, funding, regulation, intelligence, administrative process, or official influence.

• ELEC-002 concerns the vulnerability of state and local canvassing and certification mechanisms to refusal, deadlock, delay, or unauthorized discretion, regardless of the source of pressure or motive.
• ELEC-003 concerns politically neutral protection of election personnel and continuity of election operations, with state administration and only narrowly limited federal financial support.
• ELEC-004 concerns abuse of election litigation, civil subpoenas, audit requests, inspection demands, and extraordinary proceedings, including later-discovered improper-purpose coordination.
• ELEC-005 concerns false or unauthorized presidential result-transmission documents entering federal receipt, preservation, recognition, or electoral-count channels.
• ELEC-006 concerns continuity of government, transition automaticity, and narrow statutory backstops for presidential-transition access, agreements, agency cooperation, and enforcement.
• ELEC-007 concerns improper federal-force presence, emergency response, and election-material custody safeguards around election administration.
• ELEC-008 concerns coordinated federal election-subversion schemes using independently wrongful predicate acts to corruptly nullify, reverse, obstruct, delay, or procure official disregard of a lawful federal-election result.
• ELEC-009 concerns whether the Electoral College itself should be restructured or replaced by a national popular-vote system.
• ELEC-010 concerns the vulnerability of mail-in and absentee voting systems to unequal access, late or unreliable ballot delivery, inconsistent cure and signature rules, politicized postal or administrative disruption, chain-of-custody attacks, and unsupported delegitimization of lawful mail ballots.
• ELEC-011 concerns redistricting, vote dilution, majority-minority representation, racial-gerrymandering doctrine, state voting-rights acts, independent redistricting institutions, mid-decade redistricting safeguards, and algorithmic first-draft map generation. HOR-009 is admitted here after Louisiana v. Callais, and ELEC-011 now uses model State legislation as the least-complex path while preserving reserve constitutional amendment and Federal enabling-legislation vehicles. See ELEC-011.
• ELEC-012 concerns corporate, union, nonprofit, LLC, super PAC, and dark-money election influence; disclosure and coordination rules; small-donor or public-financing models; state corporate-law strategies; constitutional-amendment options; and post-Citizens United / SpeechNow remedies. HOR-013 is admitted here because campaign-finance integrity is not owned by the existing election proposals. ELEC-012 now supports H.J.Res. 54 with an ARRP enforcement/federalism clarification, preserves H.J.Res. 13 as a narrower alternative, and links post-ratification FECA conforming-amendment legislation. Hawaii's first-in-the-nation corporate-powers law, reported by the Associated Press as signed by Governor Josh Green and set to take effect July 1, 2027, is a high-salience source-development lead rather than a settled model.
• ELEC-013 concerns federal candidate-access, ballot-access, and debate-gatekeeping rules that can entrench dominant-party control or suppress nonstandard candidacies through debate criteria, polling thresholds, state ballot-access burdens, petition-defect rules, cure limits, public-benefit debate structures, or weak FEC-facing transparency. After the July 6, 2026 boundary split, ranked-choice voting and majority-choice election-method design are no longer owned here. The initial Federal Candidate Access and Debate Transparency Act draft uses Ross Perot's 1992 debate inclusion as the modern case-study anchor, a HAVA-centered Federal access form and certification-status interface, State publication and notice-and-cure floors, and targeted FECA debate-criteria transparency for covered debates tied to FEC debate treatment or Federal public benefits. A source-development explanatory checklist maps the presidential debate and state-by-state ballot-access pathway. See ELEC-013, the draft, and the checklist.
• ELEC-014 concerns federal criminal investigative process directed at state-administered elections, election officials, voter-registration activity, voter data, ballots, voting systems, or voting-rights organizations. It is distinct from ELEC-004 because it concerns criminal searches, criminal subpoenas, grand-jury process, law-enforcement interviews, device seizures, criminal investigative data demands, and prosecution-threat communications rather than civil litigation or Anti-SLAPP-style election proceedings. Civil and administrative voter-data lawsuits, Voting Section letters, information-sharing requests, and noncriminal state-election-record demands are tracked in the ELEC-004 civil-process catalog unless a criminal-process hook is verified. See ELEC-014 and ELEC-014 Criminal-Process and State Election Records Catalog.
• ELEC-015 concerns ranked-choice voting, runoffs, majority-choice election methods, tabulation transparency, voter education, recount rules, accessibility, implementation costs, state-law adoption or prohibition trends, and model-state or federal voluntary-pilot election-method options. It is deferred pending additional certified election-outcome data and additional election-method, ballot-access, party-system, and implementation input before deciding whether to draft a narrow implementation-safeguards proposal, preserve the issue as research-only, or retire it in favor of upstream competition reforms. It was branched from ELEC-013 on July 6, 2026 so candidate-access/debate reform and election-method reform can develop separately. See ELEC-015.

Notes

ELEC-001, ELEC-002, ELEC-003, ELEC-004, ELEC-005, ELEC-006, ELEC-007, ELEC-008, ELEC-009, ELEC-010, ELEC-011, ELEC-012, and ELEC-013 are developed. ELEC-013 completed its July 9, 2026 external-review readiness push after subsequent drafting, conservative budget framing, prior-proposal source development, and budget-analogue review and is scored 75/100 (Review Ready); the next review should support qualified external review focused on FEC matter files, broader official state samples, fiscal/workload validation, adoption evidence, and election-law, First Amendment, FEC/EAC, State-administration, fiscal, and legislative-counsel review. ELEC-004 now owns civil and administrative voter-data and state-election-record demand source development unless a criminal-process hook is verified. ELEC-014 has completed issue-admission and source-development review and July 9, 2026 criminal-scope/catalog routing cleanups, but is deferred pending unsealed or otherwise available primary criminal-process instruments, statutory-predicate identification, legitimacy assessment, and later remedy selection review. ELEC-015 is deferred and unscored pending additional certified election-outcome data and additional election-method, ballot-access, party-system, and implementation input before remedy selection.