Katherine–

I have no legal expertise and would defer to Volokh and other lawyers as far as legal ramifications are concerned. I have, though, read varying opinions on this. Killian’s family may well be able to get damages due to defamation of character (in this particular case, the idea of Killian trying to do a CYA, in effect showing a man who will lie in official documents if pressured to do so). There may be precedent for this. Supposedly the Westmoreland case was along these lines.

As far as the bigger ramifications, well, in many ways we’re through the looking glass here. New precedents are set when unprecedented things occur (as a non-lawyer, that’s just a guess on my part).

I would certainly want the law to come down hard if someone tries to egregiously scam an election through fraud. But I wouldn’t want it to take notice of the usual bias and distortion; that’s what political argument is for.