ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the 2016 presidential campaign, it is clear there is a growing crisis with US elections that is undermining confidence and threatens to destroy American democracy itself. Help America Vote Act (HAVA) amounted to a compromise between congressional Democrats who want to increase voter access and Republicans who want to combat voter fraud. The provisional ballot requirement was prompted by complaints that large numbers of voters in Florida and throughout the country were improperly turned away from the polls because their names had been omitted from the voter rolls or were wrongly challenged by an election official. Many believed the 2000 Florida presidential recount would serve as a wake-up call for a failing election system and the HAVA of 2002 would provide the fix. But the US electoral system is worse than ever, tittering on the brink of disaster with each election.
