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How Corporate Law Can Help Democracy Post–Citizens United (2/3/2020) - Many people still don’t know about the pernicious effects on democracy from this tool, dark… 
Public Campaign Financing Is a Bright Spot in the Shadow of Citizens United (2/3/2020) - Hazel Millard & Joanna Zdanys argue that reform remains the antidote to the ill-effects of… 
Public Campaign Financing is how to run without chasing megadonors (1/23/2020) - Ian Vandewalker and Kevin Morris of Brennan Center argue that public campaign financing offers candidates… 
Trump Campaign Plans Greater Focus on Money Bundlers (1/19/2020) - President Trump’s re-election campaign plans to step up its efforts to capitalize on so-called bundlers. 
‘Dictators in Moneyland’: Challenging kleptocracy (9/27/2019) - Ever since the earliest years of this century, Ukraine has been the contested frontier in… 
Zimbabwean activist doctor unable to recall details of his disappearance (9/21/2019) - Prominent doctor and activist Peter Magombeyi leader of Zimbabwe doctors' strike was abducted and tortured… 
19 African American women who fought for voting rights (2/10/2020) - African Americans were granted voting rights only after a long and bitter struggle. Several African… 
DHS Plans Are Urgently Needed to Address Identified Challenges Before the 2020 Elections (2/7/2020) - GAO has made three recommendations on how the DHS’s CISA can help state and local… 
Democrats launch massive legal campaign on voting ahead of 2020 (2/7/2020) - As Democrats pick their 2020 candidate, several left-leaning groups are suing against states they view… 
‘Overwhelm the system’ to thwart voter suppression, Stacey Abrams counsels blacks (2/5/2020) - Stacey Abrams lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial but fights for voter turnout. She's asked blacks… 
Gutted federal election watchdog struggles to recover (2/4/2020) - Unknown to many Americans the Election Assistance Commission plays a crucial role in US elections… 
America’s Dual-Track Voting System (2/3/2020) - Some states are racing to make voting easier,... others...are restricting it. What does it mean… 
CISA outlines its role in helping states with election security (2/17/2020) - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is making clear its role in elections. It says it… 
CISA leans into facilitator role in election security plan (2/14/2020) - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has developed a new election security plan. But the… 
CISA and states tell Senate more cybersecurity resources needed (2/13/2020) - State tech agencies told U.S. Senate Tuesday more assistance and expertise in protecting election infrastructure… 
DHS election security plan released (2/12/2020) - The plan follows a Government Accountability Office report that said the agency would struggle to… 
Keeping tech aside, delayed election results could become the norm (2/12/2020) - After Iowa people are worried about tech delaying election results but the trend is toward… 
Voters again to face tsunami of online disinformation, experts warn (2/10/2020) - Disinformation marred the 2016 elections like never before in U.S. history. But voters again 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.
Redistricting Reform May Divide Virginia’s New Democratic Majority (2/15/2020) - Virginia has recently pursued redistricting reforms. While they have been well-received but may divide its… 
Details of Missouri GOP redistricting plan could mean big changes (1/29/2020) - Who should be counted when Missouri’s 197 legislative districts are redrawn: everyone who lives in… 
Opinion: Gerrymandering endangers democracy. Fight back (1/5/2020) - John Arnold opines in the Houston Chronicle that where the Supreme Court failed to act… 
Clash over who will draw congressional district maps crucial to house control (1/5/2020) - Ahead of 2020, Democrats and Republicans are in bitter hostility over who will draw congressional… 
Opinion: Why Redistricting in California Should be a National Model (1/5/2020) - Kathay Feng of Common Cause argues that California’s redistricting experience offers a lot of lessons… 
Shrinking in rural NC will affect redistricting after the 2020 elections (12/11/2019) - Analysts predict that new electoral maps in North Carolina will be more Democratic-leaning but could… CISA and states tell Senate more cybersecurity resources needed (2/13/2020) - State tech agencies told U.S. Senate Tuesday more assistance and expertise in protecting election infrastructure… 
Analysis: Robustness of FBI election cyber security changes (1/23/2020) - New guidelines show how the agency will coordinate with state officials in the event of… 
FBI now Watchdog over Breaches to Election Systems (1/17/2020) - FBI will now notify state election officials about cyber breaches to election systems in their jurisdictions, even those… 
Voting process at risk with nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems online (1/13/2020) - While voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in… 
Voting Equipment Companies support enhanced disclosures (1/10/2020) - CEOs of three largest U.S. voting equipment companies Thursday supported more disclosure, a major step… 
Election security, ransomware dominate cyber concerns for 2020 (12/30/2019) - Headed into 2020, with a presidential election on the horizon, cyber concerns are certain to… 
A Big Vote Registration Push Reaches Millions (2/14/2020) - A non-profit wants more unmarried women, young people and people of color on voter rolls.… 
‘What’s old is new again’: Advocates say tribal voting hurdles remain (2/13/2020) - Hurdles to Native American voting are a long-standing issue. Polling cutbacks, discriminatory voter ID laws… 19 African American women who fought for voting rights (2/10/2020) - African Americans were granted voting rights only after a long and bitter struggle. Several African… 
Black voter suppression still a problem 150 years after 15th Amendment (2/4/2020) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week struck down an Arizona week that… 
‘Tidal wave of voter suppression’ washes over states, DNC lawyer says (2/4/2020) - In Texas, officials in mostly white Waller County citing cost will not make an early… America’s Dual-Track Voting System (2/3/2020) - Some states are racing to make voting easier,... others...are restricting it. What does it mean… Join the American Democracy Movement With DC!
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