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 Guardian UK: Five factors that helped US democracy resist Trump's election onslaught - Trump’s trashing of norms has been harmful but decentralization, turnout, transparency, the courts and the media played a key role by Tom McCarthy

No central authority oversees US elections. National elections are broken down by 50 states and the District of Columbia. Elections within each state are run in turn by counties and by precincts within counties. People vote locally, in thousands of jurisdictions; ballots are tallied locally; and the results are reported locally, and then added up in the public eye. The sheer number of people involved defies both coordination and conspiracy.