University of Utah researchers find ballot collection lowers barriers to voting for Naive Americans, while resulting in no documented cases of vote fraud. Yet many states are banning the practice.
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The Legitimacy of Venezuela’s Election: A Contested Outcome
The recent presidential election in Venezuela, which declared Nicolás Maduro as the winner, has sparked significant controversy and international debate regarding its legitimacy. Allegations of voter fraud and manipulation have cast a shadow over the results, with various global leaders expressing serious concerns.
‘On the brink of a new civil war’: New national survey highlights fragility of American democracy, stark partisan divides
A new nationally representative survey released by the University of Notre Dame reveals more than half of Republicans and one-third of Democrats believe the United States to be on the brink of a new civil war.
Civil or At War? Mail-In Voting and the 2020 Election
Abraham Lincoln. The country’s 16th president is known for many things: Signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Appearing on the $5 bill. Helping to usher in the modern-day practice of mail-in voting. Not familiar with that last one? UNLV professor Michael Green to the rescue! He’s a historian who specializes in the Civil War era, which is right around the time mail-in ballots became a prominent piece of U.
Rigged election? Partisans view threats to election integrity differently
Even before they cast their votes, partisans of different stripes are poised to question the legitimacy of the election outcome, but for different reasons. According to The American Social Survey, sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis, nine out of 10 Trump supporters are very or somewhat concerned about fraud in mail-in voting.
UW political science expert on the value of mail-in voting
With two months before the general election – and amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic – mail-in voting has taken on a greater importance, and drawn more political attention, than in elections past. But allegations of fraud, chaos and partisan bias…