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What Early Voting and Mail Ballots Have in Common
Both systems move the moment of voting weeks before Election Day, and both lean on the same chain of custody to keep the count honest.

Both systems move the moment of voting weeks before Election Day, and both lean on the same chain of custody to keep the count honest.

BrightSpring, Clover and agilon all route federal reimbursement through different rails, and the numbers show how much each depends on Washington.

Cross a state line and the pump price can jump, even though the fuel is largely the same. Taxes, rules, and geography explain most of the gap.

The national debt is the running total of what the federal government owes its lenders. It is held by the government itself, private investors, and foreign countries.

The president is not chosen by the national popular vote but by 538 electors, and the rules that produce that number explain most of what confuses voters.