More than 3 million votes have already been cast in what will undoubtedly be America’s most contentious ever Presidential election. Amid conspiracies around the safety of mail-in ballots, and accusations of electoral suppression, Jonathan Healy has been asking how one of the world’s leading democracies has ended up looking like its failing.

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