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Yes, Trump doesn’t like to lose. But his obstruction of the presidential election result has another goal: galvanising his base for the Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January.
As vote counts tick upward, people may have questions about why one candidate does better with mail-in votes or in-person ballots. Here are the answers, and an explanation of how the counting happens.
Election misinformation typically involves false narratives of fraud that include out-of-context or otherwise misleading images and faulty statistics as purported evidence.
Trump is contesting the results in four key battleground states. Here is what he is claiming — and his chances of success in stopping the vote count or overturning the results.
Prematurely declaring election victory is a hallmark of non-democratic regimes.
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years conducted without protections from a court order that forbid the GOP from using voter intimidation at the polls.
The Voting Rights Act was intended to prevent voter suppression in states with histories of discrimination. But states are finding other ways to make it difficult for people of colour to vote.
President Trump has repeatedly said that mail-in voting will result in substantial voter fraud. However, the real issues are related to logistics and the support by each state.
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.
In lawsuits across the country, the GOP and Trump campaign are trying to stop or dramatically curtail mail-in voting. Courts have largely sided with them, threatening massive disenfranchisement.
Voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can in fact inspire public confidence in the voting process.
One year after the 2019 general elections in Nigeria, courts and not the electorate, are busy deciding actual winners of the polls.
Will the same electoral commission, so heavily criticised in the court’s ruling, improve its capacity and arrange more credible elections?
To justify a push towards requiring ID to vote, some paint a picture of chaos and deception that is very far from reality.
The unstable authoritarian pathway that many post-colonial African states followed was facilitated by the way in which European empires undermined democratic elements within African societies.
States may have passed these laws with the aim of reducing turnout. But new evidence suggests that they have a minimal or nonexistent effect.
This is not the first time the district has dealt with a contested election. Last time, there was no redo.
This is not the first time a Nigerian poll has been postponed but it is certainly the most dramatic.
There are question marks over whether Nigeria’s upcoming elections will be credible.
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Research Associate, University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of History, Durham University
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Director, International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction and Animal-Computer Interaction, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Economics, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies and Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University
