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About one in every five election-related tweets from Sept. 16 to Oct. 21 was generated by computer software programs called “social bots.”

We can’t move to Canada or hide under the bed. This is a moment to embrace democratic politics, not repudiate them.

Let us lick our wounds and reflect on the future. This election result was one that more of us should have anticipated as a real possibility. In either case, that the results were so close and that we did not have the ideal candidate to represent the new majority emerging in the USA remains for me a source of immense hope. The struggle certainly continues.

'A certain group' appears to be turning out in big numbers in several key states.

Missouri voters are poised to reduce the influence of money on their state's political system.

Guilford County, like North Carolina as a whole, set an all-time record for the number of ballots cast during early voting despite GOP efforts for suppress voter turnout.

A whirlwind week of leaks from the FBI appear intended to cast a shadow over Clinton

How can “Trump Election Observers” distinguish between qualified and unqualified voters? Trump doesn’t say. But his reference to “certain areas” – and the entire tenor of his campaign – suggests that their color will give them away.

Gov. Bruce Rauner is on track to spend $50 million on legislative races this year. Even for a guy like Rauner, that’s a lot of money– nearly twice what he spent on his own campaign two years ago. Two Rauner allies, billionaires Ken Griffin and Richard Uihlein, are also spending tens of millions of dollars. The end game is taking down unions and squelching voting rights.