From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election

From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election describes voting in the 2020 election, from the presidential nomination to new voting laws post-election. Election officials and voters navigated the challenging pandemic to hold the highest turnout election since 1900. President Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the pandemic’s severity coupled with frequent vote fraud accusations affected how states provided safe voting, how voters cast ballots, how lawyers fought legal battles, and ultimately led to an unsuccessful insurrection.

• A story focused on voting and election administration during the 2020 US presidential election.

• A blend of storytelling and academic analyses told through graphs and tables.

• The author is among the most-recognized academics in the election space.

Michael P. McDonald, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

"Michael McDonald’s From Pandemic to Insurrection offers a readable, no-nonsense look at how the 2020 US presidential election was run, and a debunking of the ‘Big Lie’ that nefarious forces stole the election from Donald Trump. A meticulous and well-documented separation of fact from fiction."

Richard L. Hasen, author of Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics – and How to Cure It

"Michael McDonald knows elections. In From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election he uses his academic expertise and real world experience to give us the best and most comprehensive account of the 2020 election we have – and need."

Norm Ornstein, Emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute