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Pippa Norris

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2016 file photo, a cyclist rides past a sign directing voters to a primary election voting station early, in Phoenix. Early voting kicks off next week in North Carolina, the first in a two-month run of voting through key swing states where non-whites and young adults could give one of the presidential campaigns a decisive advantage before Election Day. (AP Photo/Matt York, File) (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Americans have no faith in the electoral process, and aren’t even sure that their votes will be accounted for

Pippa Norris
People wait to vote in the presidential primary election outside a polling site in Glendale, Arizona on March 22, 2016, after 70 percent of polling locations were cut (Reuters/Nancy Wiechec)

America is no model state: U.S. elections rank worst among Western democracies

Pippa Norris