Bribery involves offering money to a particular person, but Trump did not make his $5,000 offer to any single voter or set of voters.
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Campaigning anywhere for any office at any level of government is personally burdensome.
Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.
State constitutions play a growing role in American politics. But turning to such documents to recognize rights and liberties is not a new project – nor is it an entirely liberal one.
Polarization and negative partisanship have lowered the standards for whom Americans are willing to support.
The federal task force that defends US elections has been largely absent this election cycle, and the threat-sharing hub it relied on has been defunded.
The forecasts are moving in the Democrats direction, especially for taking control of the House.
Political content on social media finds you even if you’re not looking for it, and it tends to do so through a sensationalized and emotionally charged lens.
As President Trump and other Republicans cast doubt on the legitimacy of the US electoral system, other democracies offer lessons in protecting the integrity of voting systems.
Many Americans are unhappy with the two major parties but seldom support alternatives. New England is an exception.
A gobsmacking amount of money is spent on federal elections in the US. The credit or blame for that reaches back to a landmark, 50-year-old Supreme Court decision.
29 states allow mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted days after an election. A case before the Supreme Court could take that decision away from the states.
Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.
Available data suggests the Democratic Party will win ten seats and gain control of the House of Representatives in the midterms.
The extended government shut-down has seen Trump’s already-weak ratings tumble further.
Democrats have emerged from US elections triumphant, but they should temper their optimism.
The Republican and Democratic parties are united in protecting their chokehold on American politics, despite the view by America’s founders that parties had no legitimate place in the republic.
The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this destabilizing pattern last?
It all comes down to uncertainty.
As Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing itself as it enters the beginning of the second Trump Revolution.
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