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/ 3 weeks agoWhat is ‘ballot curing’? Election expert explains the method for fixing errors made when voters cast their ballots
Ballot curing aims to ensure that every valid vote is counted, even those with messy signatures, misspelled names or missing IDs.
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/ 3 weeks ago2024’s Election Day heads into the history books alongside 1964 and 1980 landslides and 2000’s Bush v. Gore nail-biter
In US history, there have been many memorable elections – including those involving quick, decisive wins and others subjected to drawn-out...
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Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle to...
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/ 3 weeks agoKristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom
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Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: ‘zozobra,’ a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
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/ 3 weeks agoBeefing up Border Patrol is a bipartisan goal, but the agency has a troubled history of violence and impunity
Created in 1924 to enforce draconian new immigration quotas, Border Patrol recruited its first agents from the Texas Rangers militia, giving...
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/ 3 weeks agoHow Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny
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