Will Your Elected Officials in Congress Accept the Results of the Election?

We are successful the last days of a momentous statesmanlike predetermination betwixt Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Do you cognize whether your elected officials volition judge the outcome?

WIRED reached retired to each azygous legislator and subordinate of the US Congress asking whether they would judge the results of the predetermination arsenic called by the Associated Press. Why the AP? Because successful the lack of a nationalist predetermination authority, calls made by the AP—a nonprofit cooperative—have agelong been accepted arsenic authoritative. We wanted thing politically neutral, peculiarly due to the fact that some section and state-level officials person indicated that they whitethorn not certify the results.

You tin look up your zip codification oregon authorities successful the hunt barroom beneath to find your legislature typical and senator, arsenic good arsenic their effect to our question astir whether they volition judge the AP’s results. In immoderate instances, your zip codification whitethorn not lucifer your existent legislature district, arsenic territory boundaries tin alteration implicit time.

We organized the legislators’ responses into 3 categories: those who volition judge the results of the elections arsenic reported by the AP, those who won’t, and those who person not responded. This is simply a surviving document, and we volition proceed to update it with responses from representatives arsenic we proceed to person them. When possible, we are besides including the afloat responses from lawmakers to adhd further discourse to their responses. For instance, immoderate lawmakers whitethorn accidental that they volition judge the results erstwhile states certify but not based connected the AP call.

A enactment is attached to the results of each lawmakers who signed the "Unity Commitment" successful September, vowing to certify the results aft "all ineligible means" to situation the result "have been exhausted." Additionally, the results bespeak if a lawmaker antecedently declared a committedness "to certifying the predetermination results" arsenic portion of a USA Today poll conducted successful mid-October.

It’s the archetypal statesmanlike predetermination since the January 6, 2021, insurrection, erstwhile Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and baselessly claimed the predetermination had been stolen.

In the interceding years, predetermination denial has gone from being the purview of fringe conspiracists to a staple of large figures connected the American right. Trump has already indicated plans to situation predetermination results this year, and hundreds of Republican candidates for office person formed uncertainty connected them arsenic well. Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice statesmanlike candidate, has said that helium would not person certified the 2020 election unless states had sent alternate pro-Trump electors.

Election officials across the country person delayed oregon refused the certification of authorities and section predetermination results. Conspiracy theories astir the results of the 2024 predetermination person already flooded the internet, arsenic predetermination denial groups, the Trump campaign, and radical specified arsenic billionaire and X proprietor Elon Musk person dispersed falsehoods astir predetermination fraud.

In the look of the proven willingness of Trump and his allies to effort to prehend powerfulness aft losing an election, a connection from elected officials that they volition judge the results of the predetermination arsenic declared by a neutral arbiter is captious accusation for voters preparing to formed their ballots.

Dell Cameron, Vittoria Elliott, Leah Feiger, David Gilbert, Makena Kelly, and Dhruv Mehrotra contributed to this project.