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Few Answers in Bizarre Case of Russian Influence at the NRA (4/20/2018) - Someone needs to get to the bottom of a Russian oligarch’s funding of the NRA 
New York State Moves to Regulate Political Spending Online (4/3/2018) - Democracy Protection Act updates campaign finance laws to bring internet political ads under existing transparency rules
How Bank Lobbyists Get Away With Showering Lawmakers With Gifts (4/3/2018) - Members of Congress meeting with lobbyists to discuss legislation to deregulate the country’s largest banks
How the Federal Election Commission Got So Bitterly Divided (3/28/2018) - The Federal Election Commission’s view of its enforcement role has grown sharply divided along ideological 
White House Investigating Jared Kushner Over Shady Loans (3/27/2018) - The White House itself is now investigating $500 million worth of loans that Kushner’s business 
Some seek return to Congressional earmarks to encourage action (3/26/2018) - Some frustrated observers suggest that a return to earmarks would grease the wheels for appropriations 
The Florida Felon Leading in Fight to Restore Voting Rights (5/17/2018) - State of Florida has become a battleground in a national debate over felony disenfranchisement laws
Census Proposal Recalls Old Abuses for Japanese-Americans (5/9/2018) - Questions on Capitol Hill about the addition of a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 
Free and Fair Elections Versus the Modern Republican Party (5/4/2018) - As a swing voter, who has proudly voted for and supported Republicans in the past, 
The Importance of Giving the Vote to New York Parolees (4/20/2018) - An executive order restores voting rights to tens of thousands of New Yorkers previously disenfranchised
New York parolees win voting rights after long battle (4/18/2018) - Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that all state parolees, more than 35,000 people, will regain the 
Election Method Reforms Leave California Ballots Way Too Long (4/16/2018) - California's new top-two system has created wave of confusion among voters leading to rise in 
Concerns Rise as WhatsApp Becomes Campaign Tool in India (5/20/2018) - WhatsApp faces scrutiny in India amid concerns about the role the app is playing in 
Questions Surround Accuracy of Iraq’s Electronic Ballot System (5/20/2018) - Demands for a manual voter recount surge amid claims of election fraud in the Iraqi 
Lack of Paper Trail a Concern Amid Fears of US Election Hacking (5/18/2018) - Roughly 1 in 5 Americans will be casting ballots on machines that do not produce 
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Now Adapted as Video Game (5/17/2018) - "Walden, a Game" is adapted from Henry David Thoreau's book and launches Tuesday on PlayStation 
GOP-led Senate Panel Confirms Russian Election Meddling in 2016 (5/17/2018) - The committee's investigation had shown Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help 
Transatlantic Election Commission Founded to Focus on Hacking (5/15/2018) - An international commission has formed to try to end meddling in elections in Western democratic 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.
Free and Fair Elections Versus the Modern Republican Party (5/4/2018) - As a swing voter, who has proudly voted for and supported Republicans in the past, 
US Supreme Court Divided Over Texas Electoral District Fight (4/25/2018) - From Voice of America: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared divided along ideological lines 
VIDEO: On Independent Redistricting and the Fair Representation Act (4/21/2018) - Latest discussion on a possible solution to the constant controversies surrounding the redistricting process
Large Majority of Public Support Congressional Election Reforms (4/13/2018) - Majorities of voters support independent redistricting commissions, ranked choice voting and multi-member districts
VIDEO: How the California redistricting process works (4/6/2018) - Leaders of California redistricting commission were in Pennsylvania to explain their system to local administrators
All eyes on landmark Supreme Court gerrymandering case (3/29/2018) - Court hears arguments on redrawing electoral districts' boundaries to boost a political party's chances in Questions Surround Accuracy of Iraq’s Electronic Ballot System (5/20/2018) - Demands for a manual voter recount surge amid claims of election fraud in the Iraqi Lack of Paper Trail a Concern Amid Fears of US Election Hacking (5/18/2018) - Roughly 1 in 5 Americans will be casting ballots on machines that do not produce 
Best Practices to Guide State Voting System Security Spending (4/25/2018) - State election officials around the country will receive their share of $380 million that Congress 
Pennsylvania picks between 5 different paper record voting machines (4/21/2018) - The vendors were selected because their systems are certified by the federal Election Assistance Commission
Pennsylvania Bans Vote-Counting Machines With No Paper Trail (4/13/2018) - Swing state Pennsylvania is taking a strong administrative stand against voting machines without a paper 
South Korea embroiled in DR Congo voting machine controversy (4/3/2018) - South Korea's government has officially distanced itself from a firm providing electronic voting machines to The Florida Felon Leading in Fight to Restore Voting Rights (5/17/2018) - State of Florida has become a battleground in a national debate over felony disenfranchisement laws Census Proposal Recalls Old Abuses for Japanese-Americans (5/9/2018) - Questions on Capitol Hill about the addition of a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 
The long roots of voter suppression in the United States (4/26/2018) - Slaves had no civil rights, couldn’t vote, and would not in fact be represented by 
Why New Jersey is Among States to Lose From Census Changes (4/2/2018) - The Census hasn't asked about citizenship since 1950, before the Voting Rights Act was even 
Census: Undercounting the vulnerable is a danger to democracy (3/29/2018) - Places where large numbers of people go uncounted get less than their fair share of 
Felon voting ban may be overturned in New Jersey (3/6/2018) - Law prevents individuals convicted of a serious crime from voting - even after they've done Join the American Democracy Movement With DC!
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