The US midterm elections are the first where the electoral system itself is questioned.

 ANALYSIS - The US midterm elections are the first where the electoral system itself is questioned.

Washington Correspondent

Like every two years, election billboards bloomed across the United States. Planted on lawns and at crossroads, they bear the names of candidates for numerous elective offices: senators and representatives to the Federal Congress or to those of the States, governors, secretaries of state, but also judges, sheriffs and mayors.

However , this election is not like the previous ones. This is the first election where the electoral system itself is in question. Two years after the 2020 election, the crisis opened by Trump is not over. By stubbornly contesting the results and the election of Joe Biden, and despite the absence of any evidence, the former president has brought discredit to the entire electoral system. Two years later, dozens of Republican candidates who are running in various polls are campaigning claiming that the Democratic Administration was not legitimately elected, and refusing in advance to accept the possibility…