{
  "id": 15898506,
  "title": "Offering cash for votes is quite common – but here’s why it doesn’t work",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/offering-cash-for-votes-is-quite-common-but-heres-why-it-doesnt-work",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-21T12:47:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Conversation",
    "slug": "the-conversation",
    "url": "https://theconversation.com/offering-cash-for-votes-is-quite-common-but-heres-why-it-doesnt-work-293259"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Money or other material benefits are often not enough to override a voter’s preferences and partisanship.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}