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#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics

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Is There Incentives to Rig Elections?

There's a comfort to the story that they're not rigged. But there are incentives in close elections, which we seem to have nonstopclose elections. You don't have to go back to Texas in the 1960s, LBJ to find examples of direct interference in the outcome of elections and there are incentives to do that. Those incentives will only feel more existential as hyper partisanship makes people think that the outcome of the elections are black and white or life and death. So yes, there is interference in elections and there has been in American history, right?

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