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Flawed research into election fraud can undermine democracy and intensify polarization

  • Written by John Kuk, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
Flawed research into election fraud can undermine democracy and intensify polarizationVote counting during the 2020 South Korean general election.Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang via Getty Images

Bad electoral science can cause lasting harm to democracy, undermining public confidence in the voting process.

That’s the main finding from our study published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Opinion Quarterly in July 2024, looking at the imp...

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