Electoral Conduct in a Multi Party Democracy
I know that it might be news to you, but the US just had one of its most controversial elections so far. When nobody trusts any side but their own, they excuse themselves and blame everyone else for their failures and any action against them becomes a grand conspiracy theory to discredit them for personal profit or power (or both, as is usually the case). There are certainly times in history when we know that fraud has happened, violence happens during elections (Tiberius Gracchus was murdered by the Senatorial class as he was running for a second term as Tribune, doing so was a literally a sacrilege). But this is not inevitable, and a multi party system has many benefits that can help to limit this. Some institutional problems, those established by ordinary laws and sometimes constitutional (mostly state constitutions but not necessarily only state constitutions), amplify this very much so, others depend on executive action (or inaction), the conduct of voters themselves and those