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November 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Trump Campaign’s Farcical Attempt to Steal an Election
The president and his allies are desperately searching for their Bush v. Gore. The results are pathetic.
October 26, 2020
Jeb Lund
How to Steal an Election
A new documentary, “537 Votes,” takes viewers back to the 2000 Florida recount—and shows how little has changed since then.
August 18, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The World’s Dumbest Authoritarian
Most dictators rig elections to win. With his Postal Service gambit, Trump merely wants everybody to lose with him.
June 18, 2020
MagazineLee Drutman
How Democracy Dies at the Ballot Box
Getting elections right in the face of a pandemic—and a partisan meltdown
March 30, 2020
MagazineZachary Roth
The Caged Ballot
Why the GOP is poised to create large-scale voting chaos this year
January 3, 2000
Dana Milbank
Trump Card

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