Alex Mohajer: We Can Legally Demand a New Election If There Was Collusion

This is a conversation from January with political writer and actor Alex Mohajer, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bros4America (formerly Bros4Hillary), a progressive advocacy organization that gained national recognition during the 2016 presidential election for its efforts to elect Hillary Clinton. This isn't as directly arts-related as some of my writing, but it was a thought-provoking interview with one of our leading critics on Donald Trump's legitimacy as a president, and I think it's still relevant in many ways. Here is an excerpt, and you can follow this link to the full piece.

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SEAN DOUGLASS: Hi Alex. Looking back on 2017, are there any lessons we can take from it as we head into the new year? I’m specifically curious about lesser-covered stories that may have caught your eye and what they say about where our attention should be in 2018.

If Trump is found guilty of collusion with Russia, there's nothing in the Constitution that forbids annulling the election. Photo: Jonathan Adams.

ALEX MOHAJER: Yeah, right off the top of my head, there are a few instances where other democracies had interferences with their elections, and in both instances, in Kenya and South Korea, those people in those countries basically rioted and demanded a new election. Those two stories are heartening, and also something to look at, because you know here in the United States we still have disputing factions about whether or not there was interference, even though there is unanimous consensus in the intelligence community that there were interferences in our election by the Russian government. We know now that there were 126 million Americans who were subjected to Russian advertising on Facebook. And when you consider that 136 million people voted, that’s the majority of the electorate we’re talking about. That was used through stolen data, stolen voter data, and we know that based off findings in recent weeks and that last couple months.

So I would recommend looking at the stories in South Korea and Kenya around how it is that people in other elected democracies respond to these kinds of threats.