by Mayur Patel | Oct 14, 2020 | Northeastern University
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes in the world, leaving the right to vote in the United States under siege. One of the pandemic’s most significant impacts will be on the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In its almost 250 years of history,...
by Megan Lohry | Mar 24, 2020 | Georgia State University
Within the past decade states across the US have increasingly pushed for voter ID laws in an attempt to minimize voter fraud. This seems optimal, however voter fraud has not been proven to be a significant threat to election turnout, while voter suppression has. The...
by Jarell Insang | Feb 14, 2019 | Boston University
Since the death of President Hugo Chávez in 2013, President Nicolas Maduro has presided over Venezuela as head of state with what some would call, an “iron fist”. Through the use of presidential decrees and the manipulation of other branches of government, Maduro has...
by Benjamin Wuesthoff | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
During the final Presidential debate of the 2016 election, then candidate Donald Trump alarmed pundits and politicians alike as he declined to confirm whether or not he would accept the results of the election should he lose, claiming that the nation’s electoral...
by Zach Hopkins | Oct 28, 2018 | Georgia State University
The classic refrain we hear with regard to our democratic process is “one person, one vote,” so when that principle is violated, we should be concerned. But is such a phenomenon so prevalent as to rise to the level of disrupting the electoral process? During the 2016...
