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Kristin Kanthak

Kristin Kanthak

Kristin Kanthak is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

19th Century voting was marked by bribery, violence and chaos. That’s why we have laws now.

By: - October 22, 2020

Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers” kidnapped and drugged him. They forced him to vote, then abandoned him near death. Details are murky, but we do know Poe died in Baltimore days after an election. The […]