US Elections Rank Among the Worst In The Western World

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If you want to know what a state-of-the-art election system looks like, you won't find it in the United States. Pippa Norris runs the Electoral Integrity Project at Harvard and the University of Sidney, which monitors elections in 153 countries. The US ranked below a lot of countries — Sweden, Norway, Costa Rica, Slovenia, and 50 others. She told Rehman Tungekar how most of our democratic neighbors do a better job.