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Vigilantes at the polls were a threat in the 19th century, too, but the laws put in place then may not work in 2022

  • Written by Kristin Kanthak, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
imageState laws dictate how far away campaign signs and workers need to be from polling places. AP Photo/Eric Gay

Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre fiction, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers” kidnapped and drugged him. They forced him to vote, then abandoned...

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