The Count Guide is a practical guide to defending the Constitution in a contested 2020 election.
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.
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.
The premise of this guide is that we should take Donald Trump’s threat that he won’t accept the results of the election at face value and prepare for a protracted conflict after Election Day.
We have the power to stop Trump from stealing the election.
If millions of ordinary people organize their communities, and if Democrats in swing states and Congress take determined action, we can win this fight.
Who we are
Zack Malitz
Zack has helped lead advocacy and candidate campaigns for climate justice, civil liberties and racial justice for the last 10 years. He’s a partner at The Social Practice and a co-founder of the Real Justice PAC. In 2018, he ran Beto O’Rourke’s record breaking statewide organizing effort, and previously worked as the Deputy Distributed Organizing Director for Bernie 2016.
Brandon Evans
Brandon advises elected prosecutors across the country who are trying to reform the criminal legal system as the national political director of Real Justice PAC. Previously Brandon managed campaigns for Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, and was the director of Working Families Party Pennsylvania.
Becky Bond
Becky is a veteran of political campaigns and the co-author of “Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Changes Everything” about her experiences on Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign. She is the executive director of Real Justice PAC and a partner at The Social Practice.