2020 US election - The fat lady is warming up in the wings

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Is American democracy suffering from an overload of politics?

An independent election authority, a non-politicized judiciary and a non-partisan media might all be pillars Americans could cling to to keep from being sucked deeper into a vortex of mistrust and dysfunction.

But there are no such handholds, say experts — since the bodies that administer elections, the media that report on them and even the judges that may ultimately decide them are now all associated with one party or the other. So are the prosecutors who might bring charges in cases of malfeasance or fraud.

So the U.S., with nine times Canada's population, has nearly 250 times as much election money sloshing around.