The fourth in a series of columns by Matthew T. Hall explores how a candidate considered qualified, and even well-qualified in some areas, lost an election with no opponent in South Carolina.

Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as

In many states, the president-elect would now be ineligible to vote in the election he just won.