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Toyota Lobbying Against Shift To Electric Vehicles (7/30/2021) - Toyota was an early adopter of electrified vehicles but has since fallen behind, instead seen… 
Update On Campaign Spending at Trump Properties (7/21/2021) - The number of federal political action committees that spent money at Trump properties in the… 
US Lobby Group Helps Big Oil To Block Climate Action (7/20/2021) - Big oil claims to be for climate action but funds lobby groups whose main objective… 
Targeting The Dark Money Attacking US Democracy (7/18/2021) - A complaint filed at the FEC accuses 18 super PACs of misleading voters by hiding… 
Corporate giants want new voting rights measure passed (7/15/2021) - On Wednesday, more than 150 corporate giants, including Target, PepsiCo, and Google asked Congress to… 
Court Upholds NJ Law To Limit Money Politics (6/28/2021) - A federal district court has upheld a New Jersey law that bans banks and other… 
18 States Made Voting Harder This Year (7/24/2021) - A new report by the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice shows that 18 states have… 
Dems Making Headlines On Voting Rights, But Little More (7/20/2021) - Democrats have yet to come up with a viable strategy to fight the slew of… 
The World’s Oldest Democracy Is One Of Its Worst (7/7/2021) - The world’s only established democracy where members of one party have managed to make it… 
The Republicans Still Fighting For Democracy (7/7/2021) - Radicalization in the GOP against democracy continues apace. Not many notable Republicans stand in the… 
Youth Voting Takes A Hit From New GOP Laws (7/7/2021) - New Republican voter restriction bills are an attempt to suppress an increasingly diverse electorate powered… 
On The Latest Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling (7/6/2021) - The Republican justices on the United States Supreme Court have just ruled that Republican state… 
The Role Of Voting Technology In South Africa (7/18/2021) - As South Africa prepares for local elections amid a deadly outbreak of Covid-19, it is… 
Redistricting App Helps You Comply with the VRA (7/17/2021) - In the last decade, Dave's Redistricting App (DRA) has grown in popularity among groups looking… 
Federal Officials Predict Repeat Of 2020 Election Threats (7/13/2021) - Three federal cybersecurity authorities argue that threats to election security that surfaced last year are… 
Including Election Systems As Critical Infrastructure (7/13/2021) - Former US CISA director Chris Krebs said that election systems should be classified as critical… 
How Political Science Can Go Dangerously Viral (7/5/2021) - Given the importance of what political science studies, from democratization to genocide, a false concept… 
Library of Congress Paves Digital Democracy Path (7/2/2021) - From being called a tech laggard, the Library of Congress is now bringing history to… Rebirth of American Democracy
The most important and revolutionary attribute of the American republican form of government has always been that it utilizes a system of popular elections to fill key positions. As everyone knows, the first American elections were only for white landowning men. But despite these extreme limits on access and often violent policy making (Native American genocide and the institution of slavery in particular), it really was the world’s first mass democratic election. This wasn’t an election among a few thousand nobility in a single city.
In George Washington’s first election in 1789, nearly one million people voted in an honest contest to choose their own leadership. The Founding Fathers‘ greatest legacy is that the country has been holding increasingly inclusive free and fair elections at the national, state and local levels at least every two years for over 230 years without interruption. Despite all the faults of the Founding Fathers, this is quite a legacy.
That being said, the quality of elections in modern America is arguably worse than it used to be. Democracy Chronicles hopes to include the latest news on all efforts to examine and reform American elections and to expose our readers to discussion on this topic in such a way as to reflect the diversity of debate on the subject. This rigorous focus on every aspect of election law in the United States should be interesting to even international readers and we have intentionally set up our website to place American democracy news right next to our coverage on world democracy. After all, the struggle for more democracy is universal.
Did Ranked Choice Voting Work In NYC? (7/21/2021) - When it came to whether New York's new ranked voting system worked, supporters and critics… 
The Limits To Changing How Primaries Work (7/20/2021) - Because primaries aren't a key factor in why Congress is so polarized, changing how they… 
Lawmakers Push To Bring Ranked Voting To D.C. (7/18/2021) - A majority of D.C. council members are in favor of a plan that would implement… 
Reforming the Recall Elections For Better Outcomes (7/12/2021) - Recall elections in California are overly bulky, and they risk replacing an elected politician with… 
Towards Ranked Voting For North Carolina (7/11/2021) - With Ranked Choice Voting as a voting method in North Carolina, there will be more… 
Poll Finds Huge Support For Ranked Voting In NYC (7/1/2021) - A new poll conducted by Common Cause New York and Rank The Vote NYC shows… 
Majority Are Worried About The State Of Democracy (7/25/2021) - A recent nationwide study by Public Agenda, shows that the majority of Americans believe democracy… 
Accelerating Election Science (7/25/2021) - According to a new perspective, there are fourteen research challenges that present critical funding opportunities… 
Defining Leadership (7/25/2021) - Leadership is a difficult idea to grasp. Great leaders may have many more attributes. The… 
New Academic Center Aims To Strengthen Democracy (7/21/2021) - Rick Hasen and David Kaye, both law professors at UC Irvine, are co-directors of the… 
For Female Vampire Bats, An Equal Chance To Rule (7/7/2021) - Female vampire bats establish an egalitarian community within a roost rather than a society based… How Political Science Can Go Dangerously Viral (7/5/2021) - Given the importance of what political science studies, from democratization to genocide, a false concept… 
Juneteenth: A Celebration of the Declaration of Independence (6/19/2021) - Juneteenth is a reminder that we must never give up no matter how tough or… 
The Attack On Critical Race Theory & The 1619 Project (6/13/2021) - The 1619 project may have been highlighted as an example of CRT's use in journalism,… 
Accommodations For Candidates With Disabilities (5/31/2021) - Despite some progress, there are structural problems preventing disabled people from participating in the electoral… 
Montana Tribes File Lawsuit Challenging New Voting Laws (5/19/2021) - On Monday, a group of Montana tribal nations filed a lawsuit challenging two new laws… 
Competition for Control of the House Underrepresents Voters of Color (4/16/2021) - 2020 was consistent with trend of declining House competition despite defeat of Democrats by Republican… 
The Long-Term Dangers From Georgia’s Election Law (4/7/2021) - Georgia signed into law a new bill that arguably codifies voter suppression. This law is… Join the American Democracy Movement With DC!
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