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'Stolen' elections open wounds that may never heal

  • Written by Sarah Burns, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Election fraud is not usually as obvious as this.Victor Moussa/Shutterstock.com

Allegations are flying left and right about potential – or actual – efforts to unfairly and secretly influence the outcome of the 2020 election. It’s a time when political scientists and constitutional scholars like to look back on other times when the...

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