The ABC's US Election Analyst Casey Briggs sets off on a trip around America to find out why the country is so divided and whether there's any hope for the place that calls itself "the leader of the free world".
In key states like Georgia, people who maintain the last election was stolen are now in positions responsible for supervising and certifying the next one. So is it actually possible to steal an election? And is it enough to run a free and fair election if people don't believe it was?
America's electoral system is littered with advantages that help those in power, stay in power. Politicians in many states draw their own electoral boundaries, but is gerrymandering rotting America's faith in politics?