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American elections explained for readers anywhere: the races, the rules that decide them, and the numbers behind the result.
Kentucky rewrote its Senate vacancy law twice in three years — and McConnell backed the first rewrite himself. That, rather than the wheelchair, is what decides who would hold the seat if he could not.
Read the full story →Nineteen million records were removed from American voter rolls in a single two-year cycle, and a Supreme Court ruling in April rewrote the rules underneath the Voting Rights Act. The annual registration drive lands in a very different landscape this year.
