THE COUNT A practical guide to defending the Constitution in a contested 2020 election by Zack Malitz, Brandon Evans, and Becky Bond
Last updated October 14, 2020 Contact us at hello@thecountguide.com PREFACE “Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.” – Donald Trump, September 23, 2020 “Rule #1: Believe the autocrat.” – Masha Gessen, Autocracy: Rules for Survival Introduction written October 11, 2020 We are days away from the most important election of our lifetimes. If everyone is able to vote and every vote is counted, Donald Trump will lose this election. But, if Joe Biden doesn’t win in a landslide, a narrow margin of victory may not be sufficient to ensure that Biden is sworn in as our next president. We believe that in a close election, Trump is likely to try to overturn the results of the election by disrupting the normally perfunctory process of casting and counting Electoral College votes. If that happens, we will be in dangerous and uncharted waters. Many people are skeptical that it will come to this. They argue that