说联邦政府没有干预中期选举是不对的。只是选举的压倒性胜利如此彻底，以至于专家们警告过的危险从未成真。
It would be wrong to say there wasn’t any federal interference in the midterm elections. The electoral landslide was simply so thorough that the dangers experts had warned about never came to pass.
部分选票仍在统计中，认证截止日期尚未到来，但有一点很清楚：美国由各州运行的分散式选举系统经受住了来自世界上最有权势的人的压力测试。
Some votes are still being counted, and certification deadlines have yet to arrive, but one thing is clear: The nation’s decentralized system of state-run elections withstood a stress test from the most powerful man in the world.
唐纳德·特朗普总统从未停止对其2020年大选失利进行重新诉讼，并重提选民舞弊阴谋论。在中期选举前夕，他动用职权赋予的一切权力试图影响结果。他失败了。
President Donald Trump never stopped relitigating his 2020 election defeat and resurfacing voter-fraud conspiracy theories. In the run-up to the midterms, he used every power of his office to try to influence the results. He failed.
“我绝对愿意接受那些结果，是的，”特朗普周二深夜在接受《纽约时报》电话采访时表示。（到周六，他已转发质疑选举结果的言论。）但美国历史上最具影响力的选举之一和平落幕并非偶然。这涉及律师、倡导者、民主党籍州检察长以及两党选举官员近两年的有组织努力。
“I am absolutely willing to accept those results, yeah,” Trump told The New York Times in a late-night telephone interview on Tuesday. (By Saturday, he was reposting comments questioning the outcome.) But the peaceful conclusion to one of the most consequential elections in US history didn’t happen by accident. It involved nearly two years of organized effort by lawyers, advocates, Democratic attorneys general and election officials from both parties.
重返白宫后，特朗普及其盟友煽动阴谋论，试图将州立选举联邦化，就邮寄选票制造混乱与恐惧，并花费数月时间试图劝阻民众投票。特朗普施压共和党执政的州通过中期重新划分选区绘制新的国会选区地图，并推动国会通过一项被称为“SAVE法案”的限制性投票法。司法部以非公民投票指控为由，对30个州提起诉讼，要求获取机密选民记录，并威胁如果选举官员不配合将对其提起诉讼。
Upon his return to the White House, Trump and his allies stoked conspiracy theories, tried to federalize state-run elections, sowed chaos and fear about mail-in ballots, and spent months trying to discourage people from voting. Trump pressured Republican states to draw new congressional maps through mid-decade redistricting and pushed Congress to pass a restrictive voting law dubbed the SAVE Act. The Department of Justice filed lawsuits against 30 states seeking access to confidential voter records over allegations of noncitizen voting and threatened election officials with prosecution if they didn’t comply.
至少有34项联邦地区法院裁决暂时叫停或永久阻止了政府大多数干预行动。但每一项裁决都耗费了大量时间、金钱和精力进行诉讼。
At least 34 federal district court decisions either temporarily halted or permanently blocked most of the administration’s efforts to interfere. But each one took enormous amounts of time, money and effort to litigate.
竞选法律中心投票倡导部主任乔纳森·迪亚兹表示，支持者们并不指望这场接连不断的法庭失利能阻止政府试图推翻选举结果，竞选法律中心是几个致力于挑战联邦干预的团体之一。
And advocates did not expect this drumbeat of court defeats to prevent the administration from trying to reject the outcome, said Jonathan Diaz, director of voting advocacy for the Campaign Legal Center, one of several groups that worked to challenge federal interference.
这些团体担心，如果特朗普不喜欢选举结果，官员们会利用毫无根据的谣言扣押选票；白宫会质疑关键选举；司法部会试图阻止认证。
The groups feared that, if Trump didn’t like the results, officials would use unsubstantiated rumors to seize ballots. That the White House would dispute key races. That the DOJ would try to stop certification.
这些极端干预之所以没有发生，很大程度上是因为选举失利悬殊，特朗普无法编造出令人信服的骗局。
Those extraordinary intrusions didn’t happen largely due to a loss so decisive that Trump couldn’t fabricate a convincing hoax.
“说到底，是选民为政府的努力敲下了最后一颗棺材钉，”迪亚兹告诉我。“当你以显著差距输掉选举时，想要操纵系统并推翻选举结果就难得多。”选举干预努力失败可能还有另一个原因：选民开始看清了政府在做什么。
“It really was the voters who put the final nail in the coffin of the administration effort,” Diaz told me. “It is much harder to try to game the system and overturn the result of an election when you lose it by significant margins.”There’s likely another reason the election interference efforts failed: Voters started to see what the administration was doing.
过去十年来，特朗普和其他选举否认者一直在散布选举欺诈的阴谋论，却从未提供任何证据。其中最主要的说法是：全国各地的民主党人以某种方式秘密组织了数十万非公民参加中期选举投票，试图暗中操纵结果。国土安全部甚至声称，加利福尼亚州、新泽西州、内华达州和宾夕法尼亚州的选民名单上有超过25万名潜在非公民。当州官员核查时，发现这并不属实。
For the last decade, Trump and other election deniers have pushed conspiracies about election fraud without supplying any proof. Chief among these: that Democrats across the country had somehow secretly organized hundreds of thousands of noncitizens to to vote in the midterms in a stealth attempt to rig the results. The Department of Homeland Security even claimed more than 250,000 potential noncitizens were on the voter rolls in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania. When state officials checked, they found that wasn’t true.
该政府一直推动这一说法，直到选举日。但最终，选民们对选举进程足够信任，以几乎空前的中期选举投票率前来投票。（据佛罗里达大学选举实验室称，1.23亿名选民投下了选票。）美国仍有大量工作要做，以巩固选举公正性。一些著名的选举否认者落选——例如得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿，他竞选美国参议员失败，以及内华达州和亚利桑那州的共和党州务卿候选人。但有99名选举否认者当选，包括佛罗里达州、阿拉巴马州、爱达荷州、南卡罗来纳州和田纳西州的共和党州长。
The administration pushed that claim until the day of the election. But in the end, voters trusted the process enough to show up in almost unprecedented midterm numbers. (According to the University of Florida Election Lab, 123 million voters cast ballots.) There is still plenty of work to do to shore up election integrity in the US. Some prominent election deniers went down in defeat — such as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who lost his US Senate bid, and the Republican candidates for secretary of state in Nevada and Arizona. But 99 election deniers were elected to office, including the Republican governors of Florida, Alabama, Idaho, South Carolina and Tennessee.
是时候让他们听取托马斯·加尔文的严厉言辞了，他是负责管理亚利桑那州马里科帕县选举的委员会的一名共和党成员——这个曾经保守的州，民主党刚刚实现了对政府的三权执掌。
It’s time they heed the blistering words of Thomas Galvin, a Republican member of the board that runs elections in Maricopa County, Arizona — a once-conservative state where Democrats have just captured trifecta control of government.
“给我的共和党同僚，过去六年来你们一直在散布这些谎言，你们需要停止，”加尔文周四写道。“因为你们导致了亚利桑那州共和党的毁灭，坦率地说，也是全国范围内的毁灭。”本周，美国选举制度展示了其韧性。美国人民展示了对它的信任。曾经，这不算什么大事——但在2026年，这很重要。
“To my fellow Republicans who have been trafficking these lies for the last six years, you need to stop,” Galvin wrote on Thursday. “Because you have led to the destruction of the Republican Party here in Arizona, and frankly around the country.”This week, the US election system demonstrated its resilience. The American people demonstrated their trust in it. Once, that wouldn’t have been a big deal — but in 2026, it is.