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Election 2020: 89 articles to teach you about how American elections really work

  • Written by Jeff Inglis, Politics + Society Editor, The Conversation US
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Editors’ note: In a world transformed by a pandemic, few of the fundamentals in Americans’ lives – schools, jobs, even how to shop for groceries – have remained the same. The same is true with the election, where the most basic of the...

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