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Midterm Election Spending On Track To Top $9.3 Billion (9/29/2022) - The total cost of 2022 midterm elections is projected to exceed $9.3 billion, according to… 
FEC Rejects Complaints About Zuckerberg’s 2020 Election Grants (9/11/2022) - Fantastical assertions about 'Zuckerbucks' in the 2020 election among GOP leaders have been dismissed by… 
It’s Time For Democrats To Act On A Dark Money Ban In Primaries (9/8/2022) - The 2022 primary season was saturated with this uncontrolled, often undeclared money, which influenced elections… 
Inside The Right’s Historic Billion-Dollar Dark Money Transfer (8/26/2022) - A dark money group led by Trump judicial adviser Leonard Leo, sponsored by mogul, Barre… 
Outside Money Floods New York Congressional Races (8/26/2022) - Super PACs spent $9 million, more than three times in 2018, to try to sway… 
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… 
The ‘Cost’ Of Voting In America By Location (9/23/2022) - There have long been numerous restrictions on voting rights in several deep-red and polarized states… 
Disabled Voters Struggle As States Enforce Restrictive Voting Laws (9/15/2022) - Americans with disabilities say state efforts to tighten voting laws are making it harder for… 
New Website With Accessible Voting Options In Every State (9/15/2022) - A user-friendly website featuring accessible voting options in every state has been released by the… 
How To Vote: A Quick And Easy Guide (9/15/2022) - Every citizen has the right to vote and language should not be a barrier. A… 
How To Fix America’s Confusing Voting System (9/15/2022) - There are tested solutions to improve the voting system and allow millions more people to… 
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… 
Rural Broadband And The Politics Of Good Enough (9/23/2022) - COVID-19 showed... how essential high-speed Internet is to our everyday lives… Yet, millions... do not… 
Explainer – How America Casts And Counts Its Votes (9/11/2022) - How Americans vote - and the equipment they use - varies widely, and some methods… 
How The Midterms Could Weaken U.S. Election Security (9/11/2022) - "Big Lie" supporters are running for positions that would enable them to allow unauthorized outsiders… 
Can Computer Simulations Help Fix Democracy? (8/26/2022) - A technological revolution has made it harder for politicians to get away with gerrymandering. But… 
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… 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.
Alaska Election Results Show Why Condorcet Is Obsolete (9/23/2022) - Ever since Mama Bear Sarah Palin lost in recent elections in Arizona, MAGA Republicans are… 
NY Dems Send Voters Pre-Filled Absentee Ballot Applications (9/23/2022) - Democrats in New York State claim that this procedure can boost voter turnout. Republicans in… 
USPS Wants Your Help To Improve Ballot Processing (9/15/2022) - Neither rain nor snow will stop the United States Postal Service from delivering mail, but… How To Fix America’s Confusing Voting System (9/15/2022) - There are tested solutions to improve the voting system and allow millions more people to… Explainer – How America Casts And Counts Its Votes (9/11/2022) - How Americans vote - and the equipment they use - varies widely, and some methods… 
What’s next for ranked-choice voting after Alaska? (9/2/2022) - Advocates for electoral reform are still hopeful that additional states and municipalities would switch to… 
How Children Can Contribute To Build Better Democracies (9/29/2022) - Children are often left out in discussions on participative democracy. Yet, and interestingly so, can… 
The “Independent” State Legislature In Republican Theory (9/23/2022) - The autonomous state legislative theory runs contrary to the 12 Amendment's anticipated democratizing impact on… 
Poll: Most Favor Maximum Age Limits For Elected Officials (9/15/2022) - Most Americans want max age limits for elected officials, and far more think more young… 
Algorithmic Approach To Legislative Apportionment And Redistricting (9/15/2022) - Recent debates on the composition of the apportionment basis have brought up fresh concerns about… 
Study: Capacity To Influence Voters Small, Decreases As Vote Approaches (8/26/2022) - The ability of political campaigns to sway voters is limited in partisan general elections and… 
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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