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Trump State-by-State Election Control Plan

2026-05-10 · 2 sources · 80% confidence
Election Admin Changemulti state · broad
🏛 Executive Branch👤 Trump Administration#election control#voting#electoral administration#democracy
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Damage
100.0
Constitutional Damage
Critical
Hype
44.3
Media Hype
Moderate
-56 UNDERCOVERED
Summary

An investigation reveals Trump administration plans to control elections state-by-state, indicating systematic efforts to influence electoral administration and voting procedures.

IF YOU ONLY DO ONE THING

Contact your state election officials and secretary of state to ask what federal pressure or 'assistance' they've received regarding election administration, and demand transparency about any changes to voter registration systems, poll worker training, or ballot counting procedures.

Why This Score

This scores as a clear List A event due to maximal constitutional damage across election integrity (5/5), institutional capture (4/5), and rule of law (4/5) drivers. Systematic state-by-state election administration control represents the highest-severity threat: structural changes to election machinery that are durable, difficult to reverse, and create reusable authoritarian precedent. The 1.15 mechanism modifier for election_admin_change and maximum severity multipliers (all 1.3) reflect this is not rhetoric but institutional capture. B-score is moderate (48) due to investigative journalism format and competing news, but the governance harm vastly dominates.

Damage Score Drivers
Election Integrity & Transfer of Power×0.22
5.0/5
Rule of Law / Due Process×0.18
4.0/5
Separation of Powers×0.16
3.0/5
Civil Rights / Equal Protection×0.14
3.0/5
Institutional Capture×0.14
4.0/5
Corruption / Self-Dealing×0.1
2.0/5
Violence / Intimidation Enabling×0.06
1.0/5
Sev: durability=1.3 · reversibility=1.3 · precedent=1.3 · mech=1.15× scope=1.05×
Hype Score: Layer 1 — Hype (55%)
Outrage-bait
3.0/5
Meme-ability
2.0/5
Novelty Spike
3.0/5
Media Friendliness
4.0/5
Layer 2 — Strategic (45%)
Media-Volume Mismatch
2.0/5
Timing Overlap
1.0/5
Narrative Pivot
2.0/5
Repeat Pattern Match
4.0/5
Intentionality: 5/15 → Reduced (0.25)
Smokescreened By
Score History
v1 May 11: Dmg=100.0 Hype=44.3 (auto) — Deferred scoring (caught up)
v1 May 13: Dmg=100.0 Hype=44.3 (system:48h_auto) — 48-hour auto-freeze
Factual Claims
Trump administration has systematic plans to control elections state-by-stateInvestigation cited in title articles
Plans involve influencing electoral administration and voting proceduresSummary from source articles
This represents a multi-state effort with broad population impactScope and affected population metadata
Sources (2)