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"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome."
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"With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high."
"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome."
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