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Oct 7, 2020 · With less than one month until the 2020 presidential election in the United States, research shows that the integrity of the country's elections has compared poorly to other democracies in...
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The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president , Donald Trump , and vice president , Mike Pence . [9]
In normal times the divisive nature of the Trump Administration, which was in power between January 2017 and January 2021, led many to view the 2020 presidential election as being of higher...
Oct 12, 2020 · The elections come at a historic time, when the US is facing four intersecting crises: the growing political instability and violence surrounding issues of racism, national populism and the rise of the far-right, the Coronavirus pandemic, the related economic crisis, and growing tensions with China.
- Fazal Rizvi, Michael A. Peters, Michalinos Zembylas, Shivali Tukdeo, Mark Mason, Lynn Mario T. M. de...
- 2020
- How Does U.S. Voter Turnout Compare with That in Other Democracies?
- Why Is Turnout Low in The United States?
- What Has Been Done About It?
- What’s The Outlook For The 2022 Midterms?
Turnout in the United States is below average among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a grouping of mostly high-income countries. Turnout in the 2020 U.S. national elections was 62 percent, three points below the OECD average of 65 percent. Some of the highest-turnout countries include Turkey, Sweden, and ...
Low turnout has been a feature of U.S. politics for the past century, with presidential elections consistently bringing out between 50 and 65 percent. Turnout in midterm elections is even lower. For much of that time, Jim Crow–era voting requirementsdisenfranchised many Black Americans. The 1965 Voting Rights Act banned this type of discrimination,...
There is a tug-of-war between policies to expand voting access and to further tighten it. The 1965 law had required states with a track record of discrimination to get federal approval before enacting new election procedures, but that provision was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013. States including Alabama, Florida, and Texas responded with...
In the wake of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, some policymakers are seeking to head off problems during the 2022 vote. One proposal, the Freedom to Vote Act (FVA), seeks to counteract what critics allege is local voter suppression by setting nat...
The 2020 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic Party's nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, defeated incumbent Republican president Donald Trump in the presidential election. Despite losing seats in the House of Representatives, Democrats retained control of the House and gained control of the Senate.
Dec 22, 2021 · Graphical evidence shows large take-up of absentee voting yet no major turnout effect of vote-by-mail in 2020. First, we show graphical evidence that voters with access to no-excuse absentee voting used that vote mode at a noticeably higher rate during the pandemic in 2020 than in previous elections.
