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Supreme Court Takes Up A Case That Could Legalize Bribery (1/14/2022) - FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, a case that the Supreme Court will hear next… 
Campaign Finance Vouchers Help Level The Playing Field (1/12/2022) - Seattle's novel way to level the playing field for candidates and voters called democracy vouchers… 
A Trading Ban for U.S. Lawmakers That Makes Sense (1/12/2022) - Senator Jon Ossoff’s proposal to bar federal legislators and their family members from buying individual stocks… 
Poll: Business Leaders Believe Democracy Threatened (1/8/2022) - 72% of business leaders say they are concerned that U.S. democracy is under threat, that is… 
GOP Election Deniers Get Corporate PACs’ Cash Again (1/8/2022) - Corporate bodies are reneging on the promise not to fund those Republicans who backed the… 
Poll: Voters Support Banning Lawmakers From Trading Stocks (1/8/2022) - A new poll finds that most voters would prefer that lawmakers should be banned from… 
Voting Rights Demonstrators Are Arrested Outside Capitol (1/21/2022) - 28 people were arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday as they demanded that the… 
Sports Figures Urge Manchin To Help Pass Voting Bill (1/21/2022) - Sports figures are calling on Senator Joe Manchin, the Democrat from West Virginia, to help… 
House passes voting rights package, setting up Senate filibuster showdown (1/17/2022) - Thursday, the House passed voting rights legislation in a way that it is expected to… 
How To Boost Voter Turnout To Nearly 100 Percent (1/12/2022) - Thanks in part to its progressive history, Massachusetts can act as a lab for a… 
Policy to Advance Good Faith Election Observation (1/12/2022) - Election observers and challengers are a minor but important part of the complex system of… 
NY Changing Election System Amidst Focus On Voting Rights (1/10/2022) - New York lawmakers rallied for voting rights Thursday on the anniversary of the Capitol riot… 
Contemporary Politics Through the TikTok Algorithm (1/12/2022) - Tiktok, a social media platform designed as a mixture of Instagram and Snapchat, has become… 
Technology And The Global Struggle For Democracy (1/12/2022) - It's easy to worried about the future of systems based on liberty and political action… 
San Francisco Tech Workers Take To Local Politics (1/10/2022) - Interest in San Francisco politics has piqued the interest of more tech sector employees, founders,… 
Dictators In Africa Using Social Media To Cling To Power (1/10/2022) - African dictators like Yoweri Museveni of Uganda are suspected of consolidating their power by creating… 
Mathematicians, Data Scientists Use Tech To Shape Districts (1/5/2022) - Their maps are among a half-dozen proposals that have been submitted to a court panel… 
What Will the Metaverse Mean for Political Movements? (12/22/2021) - Metaverse is Zuckerberg's aim to de-prioritize political content and push for a "politically neutral" platform,… 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.
Americans of All Parties Love Ranked Voting (1/22/2022) - Ranked choice voting improves representation, increases participation, and improves our democracy. Americans of all parties… 
Alaska Court Upholds Voter-Approved Election Changes (1/22/2022) - Wednesday, Alaska Supreme Court upheld an election system that would eliminate party primaries and replace… 
What Would James Madison Have Thought Of The Filibuster? (1/14/2022) - In essays, Rakove has explored Madison’s conception of the Senate and of majority rule, as… 
Can Ranked Choice Voting Work For Conservatives? (1/8/2022) - Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is not hard. Voters rank preferences so they need only vote once.… 
An Italian Super-Presidency? Mario, Don’t Do It! (1/5/2022) - The urge to keep Mario Draghi in authority is a mounting concern given the historical… 
Manipulative Political Ads Fail At Swaying New Voters (1/21/2022) - Both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to be emotionally moved or offended by political… 
Ants May Be More Democratic Than Many Humans (1/21/2022) - In research with ants at the Weizmann Institute, it was seen that the majority group… 
Study: Support For Populist Politics Collapsed During Pandemic (1/21/2022) - According to a new survey, support for populist politics 'collapsed' during the pandemic, although democracy… 
Algorithmic Personalisation And the Democratic Public Sphere (1/8/2022) - A new paper on algorithmic personalisation and the democratic public sphere focuses on why digital… 
Quantifying Social Organization And Political Polarization Online (12/6/2021) - Online society may be polarizing due to mass selection into groups of like-minded persons, notably… 
Study Suggests Friendships Lead to Lopsided Elections (12/1/2021) - The expectations that a person's friends have about the likely winner of an election can… 
New Law Allows Noncitizens To Vote In NYC (1/10/2022) - 800,000+ noncitizens and “Dreamers” in New York City will now be allowed to vote after… 
Urban Democracy Crisis (12/29/2021) - Solutions exist to low urban turnout that have proven effective in cities and states that… 
Only A New Voting Rights Act Can Preserve Our Democracy (12/25/2021) - We are in a new chapter in which African Americans' civil rights are being threatened,… 
Biden allies push for protections for Latino, Asian voters (9/24/2021) - A non-profit created by Biden loyalists is pushing for bilingual resources for Latino and Asian… 
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,… join the democracy movement with DC!
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