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#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
Lex Fridman Podcast
Elections Are Not Peaceful Walks in the Park
In 1876, there was fraud in the election. People who lose a close election are never happy and they always think that something has been done. That is not how our elections work now. One of our great accomplishments has been to eliminate virtually all the fraud in our elections. We've gotten that by creating safeguards. It is very difficult. All the evidence we have is that the minimal fraud that's occurred in elections or onesies and twosies hasn't had any big difference in the outcome of elections. So that's a big difference. And then another big difference, I think, is that in that time, the Democrats and Republicans are on the opposite sides of where they are now
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