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Past Present Future

Fixing Democracy: How to Stop Election Rigging

Past Present Future

D&HR Media Ltd

Politics, News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode on how to fix democracy David talks to political scientist Nic Cheeseman about how to stop governments rigging elections around the world, from Africa to the United States. How widespread is the problem? Has digital technology made it worse? What makes an election free and fair? And what are the chances that the next US presidential election will be a free and fair one? Tickets are available for the 3rd film in our PPF Films of Ideas season at the Regent Street Cinema in London on Thursday 9th October: join us for a screening of the biopic Rosa Luxemburg followed by a live recording of the podcast with Lea Ypi https://bit.ly/4mNzNCT Next Time: Now & Then with Robert Saunders on Neil Kinnock, Labour and Militant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, my name's David Rundsman and this is past-present future, the History of Ideas podcast.

1:12.2

Today in our series Fixing Democracy, I'm going to be talking to the political scientist,

1:17.5

Nick Cheeseman, who has spent many years studying election practice and malpractice around the world,

1:24.6

from Africa to America, looking at the ways that governments try to rig elections

1:30.7

and exploring how to stop them. This is a conversation about what makes an election free and fair

1:38.8

and some of the things that we can do to try to guarantee that it happens wherever you are.

1:49.7

So Nick, we're going to be talking about all of the many different ways in which elections

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