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Federal Lobbying Spending On Track To Set New Record In 2022 (8/4/2022) - Federal lobbying spending reached $2 billion after a staggering $1.1 billion during the first quarter… 
Democratic group to spend millions on Secretary of State races this fall (6/13/2022) - A voting rights group is planning to raise millions to assist democrats in getting elected… 
America’s billionaire class is funding anti-democratic forces (5/25/2022) - Today's billionaire class is promoting a radically anti-democratic agenda, supporting Trump's claim that the 2020… 
Dark Money Gets Darker With Less Disclosure In The 2022 Elections (5/23/2022) - There is a need to enforce more stringent rules on the disclosure if the problem… 
Where Megadonors Are Spending Big to Shape The Democratic Party (5/18/2022) - Even though Democrats are practically certain to lose their majority in the House, their primaries… 
Moneyed Interests, Information Provision, and Congress (5/17/2022) - Politicians wrongly assume their self-interests are compatible with constituents' interests, the rich tend to have… 
2022: Year Of Radical Change For Camp Lejeune Justice (8/4/2022) - Indiana has been a purple state dominated and oppressed by Republicans who stack every deck… 
DOJ Sues Arizona Over Proof Of Citizenship Voter Law (7/8/2022) - The DOJ has filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona seeking to stop a… 
Feds: Arizona Could Face Lawsuit Over Voter ID Law (7/6/2022) - Arizona's statute requiring proof of citizenship to cast a vote in a presidential election is… 
US State Institutions and Democratic Opportunity (6/30/2022) - State-level institutions offer democratic opportunity than federal ones. They readily give majorities a chance to… 
Can American Democracy Have Nice Things? (6/7/2022) - Universal voting would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active… 
The Doom Spiral of Pernicious Polarization (5/23/2022) - The 2020 elections exposed America as a democracy perhaps more dangerously divided than any other… 
Michigan Officials Detail a Brazen Voting Machine Scheme (8/11/2022) - The Michigan attorney general's office discovered attempts to induce county clerks in three counties to… 
Denver Renews Voting Software Feds Say Proved Vulnerable (8/11/2022) - A federal agency warned about a security breach on the Dominion systems last month. But… 
New Tech Helps Citizens Audit The Vote (8/9/2022) - Rebuilding trust in our democracy would require high-quality verification in the form of audits that… 
A Primer On Ballot Marking Device Security (7/18/2022) - Ballot marking devices (BMDs) guard against errors like stray pen marks and overvoting that can… 
Activists Say Cyber Agency Weakens Voting Tech Advisory (6/8/2022) - Friday, the top cybersecurity agency issued a final version of an advisory on voting machine… 
Do Ballot Barcodes Threaten Election Security? (6/8/2022) - BMDs have been challenged for creating security risk to elections. The trade-off between benefits and… 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.
Majority Continue To Favor Moving Away From Electoral College (8/14/2022) - Due to the Electoral College's excessive influence in recent elections, most Americans back altering the… 
It’s Time For Universal Voting (8/4/2022) - A genuinely inclusive and participatory democracy, which is currently essential to the stability of America,… 
Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy? (7/18/2022) - Some critics of the US electoral process contend that most voters don't have many options… 
Massachusetts’ Highest Court Upholds New Mail-In Voting Law (7/18/2022) - The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has rejected a GOP-led attempt to prevent implementation of… 
Making Democracy Robust With 100% Voter Turnout (7/4/2022) - "Civic duty voting" advocates argue that it will alter election campaigns by mobilizing the base… 
Non-Partisan Primaries Versus Top-4, Top-2 Primaries (6/25/2022) - Non-partisan elections and primary-election innovations, like Alaska's adoption of the Top-4 primary, have fundamental differences. 
Voters Can Be Persuaded To Switch Candidate Support With New Info (8/14/2022) - Voters' responses to information in a way compatible with Bayesian updating, can explain the modest… 
Too Many Americans Want A Dictatorship, Not Democracy (7/8/2022) - The success of the American experiment depends on responsible leaders and citizens educated in the… 
Historical Lynching’s And The Contemporary Black Voting Behavior (6/30/2022) - Blacks in southern counties that experienced a relatively higher number of historical lynchings have lower… 
Study: Politicians Typically Enjoy Longer Lives Than General Populations (6/28/2022) - For almost all countries, politicians had similar rates of mortality to the general population in… 
The Harmful Effects Of Partisan Polarization On Health (6/13/2022) - Partisan polarization causes significant stress and worry among Americans and polarization may be influencing their… 
The Changing Face Of Tyranny In The 21st Century (6/8/2022) - Dictators in the 21 century are different - they're "spin" dictatorships that manipulate info. They… 
How Public Campaign Financing Empowers Small Donors Nationwide (4/14/2022) - Mounting evidence...[shows] that public financing amplifies underrepresented voices and makes democracy work better for all… 
Redistricting Cycle Failed To Increase Representation For Minorities (3/20/2022) - It may get the most attention, but partisanship is not the only way to measure… 
Attacks Against Election Officials Are Taking a Toll (3/18/2022) - Election officials so essential to the functioning of American democracy have increasingly come under attack… 
57 Years After The Selma Voting Rights Act March (3/8/2022) - The Voting Rights Act is linked to the events of Bloody Sunday, what preceded them,… 
Native American Tribes Sue North Dakota Over Gerrymandering (2/22/2022) - The suit charges that diluting Native power violates their voting rights and will handicap tribe… 
Georgia Republicans Try To Undo Local Elections (2/12/2022) - A new wave of power grabs by Georgia’s GOP legislators is threatening to wrest control… join the democracy movement with DC!
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