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President Donald Trump may be trying to get state lawmakers to shift the outcome of the presidential election.
Explanations of how the US election system works, the history of how it got that way and what effects and significance those mechanisms have on the nation today.
The framers of the Constitution were very clear that presidential terms have time limits. Not four years and a day. Not three years and 364 days. Four years.
This is not the first time the prospect of state legislatures ignoring the popular vote and appointing their own slate of electors has arisen.
The mail-in voting process has several built-in safeguards that make it hard for one person to vote fraudulently, and even more difficult to commit large-scale voter fraud.
The technical qualifications for presidential candidates are the same, but how people seek the nation’s highest office has shifted over the centuries.
Party platforms are a vital clue about which groups hold real power in the two major national parties, and can help predict what the government will actually do.
Mathematically speaking, the Electoral College is built to virtually ensure narrow victories, making it very susceptible to manipulation and disinformation.
Overall, waiting times may be improving – but long waits are still common in Black communities.
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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Professor of History, Texas A&M University
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Professor of History and Provost Emeritus, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Education, Michigan State University
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Professor of Education and Affiliate Faculty in Philosophy, University of Cincinnati
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Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies, West Virginia University
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Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education, North Carolina State University
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor RTPC of Mathematics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
