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Tennessee voter registration drives: civil rights groups sue Tennessee over new law (8/20/2019) - Rights groups sue State over new law that puts Tennessee voter registration drives at risk.… 
Trump has spent years financially compelling people to attend his rallies (8/20/2019) - President Trump accuses activists of being paid by powerful liberal forces, but many attendees at… 
Deregulating Corruption: exploring what the Supreme Court has done to rebrand corruption, (8/18/2019) - Article explores what the Supreme Court has done to rebrand corruption, as well as how… 
State officials beg Congress for more election security funding (8/18/2019) - Secretaries of state for Connecticut and Louisiana on Thursday called on Congress to appropriate more… 
State Supreme Court Diversity (8/15/2019) - Amid growing recognition of disparities in America’s justice system, this report highlights a critical but… 
Tackling Money in Politics: Prospects for Campaign Finance Reforms (8/12/2019) - Tackling money in politics has been elusive in US campaign finance reforms. A new article… 
Disabled Voters Face Turnout Gap Nationwide (7/27/2019) - Number of Americans with physical or mental disabilities who turned out to vote surged in… 
Inside The Operation To Push Noncitizen Voting Laws In Florida (7/24/2019) - A network of out-of-state political consultants, secret donors close ties to President Trump is behind… 
Free Mail-In Ballots On The Horizon In Oregon (7/23/2019) - Voters in Oregon may be able to mail their ballots for free beginning in 2020,… 
Groups Working To Boost Voter Turnout For Texans With Disabilities (7/19/2019) - Advocates are hoping to register more Texans with disabilities ahead of constitutional amendment election in… 
70-Year-Old Ballot Order Law Challenged Anew In Florida (7/18/2019) - Democrats are challenging a law that requires candidates belonging to the party of the current… 
Political Struggle Over Controversial North Carolina Voter ID Amendment (7/17/2019) - Starting in 2020 North Carolina voters will have to show identification when voting. Voters approved… 
“Mail-In Absentee Ballot Anomalies in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District” (8/23/2019) - The aftermath of the 2018 midterm election in N. Carolina was marred by allegations of… 
Georgia voters challenge legality of new election system (8/21/2019) - Georgians who want hand-marked paper ballots challenging new election system state officials rushing to implement… 
On Election Security (8/6/2019) - While the current United States administration focuses on the border crisis, the threat to our… 
Decision On Ranked-Choice Voting Coming Soon To NYC (7/30/2019) - NYC voters may soon get to choose five candidates for mayor instead of just one.… 
Judge Could Force Georgia To Use Paper Ballots (7/30/2019) - A Georgia judge may impose ballot papers. This is interesting because there is much talk… 
A First Look At The Unusual Military-Run DEFCON Voting Village (7/28/2019) - Lawmakers will join former NSA national threat operations director Sherri Ramsay in the election security-focused… 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.
Spakovsky’s GOP-friendly campaign: States should adopt anti-immigrant redistricting change (8/20/2019) - Spakovsky's GOP-friendly campaign encourages States to move forward with anti-immigrant redistricting change using upcoming data… 
What Every American Should Ask of the Next President (8/9/2019) - In the run-up to the 2020 vote and in a context of deepening threats to… 
The Gerrymandering Antidote: the Fair Representation Act (7/5/2019) - The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that federal courts have no constitutional role to play… 
Green Party Fury At Supreme Court Approval Of Partisan Redistricting (7/4/2019) - Gerrymandering has been used for over two hundred years by political parties jockeying for power… 
The Supreme Court Won’t Stop Partisan Gerrymandering. Now What? (6/30/2019) - Chief Justice John Roberts has been winning praise for independence blocking Trump administration’s bid to… 
NAACP Statements On Supreme Court’s Democracy Rulings (6/29/2019) - The Court’s rulings today upend our democratic principles by allowing party politics to determine the… 
“The Cybersecurity 202: L.A. County voting system pits cybersecurity vs. disability advocates” (8/23/2019) - A new voting system in L.A County will super-charge a debate about balance between the… 
Election Security Lessons from DEFCON 27 (8/21/2019) - Given the extent of foreign interference in the 2016 election, every American should be concerned… 
Spokesperson: Judge Amy Totenberg conclusions “silly and unfounded” (8/18/2019) - Georgia Secretary of State Spokesperson called Judge Amy Totenberg's conclusions on unconstitutionality of Georgia’s Voting… 
Voting Machine Security: Where We Stand Six Months Before the New Hampshire Primary (8/15/2019) - Voting machine security has been topical since Russia's 2016 meddling. An interesting article asks where… 
Report Says Aging Voting Machines A Concern In Alabama (7/24/2019) - A report published Thursday on election security says states need more federal money to safeguard… 
Microsoft Giving Free Electionguard Software To Election Machine Suppliers (7/19/2019) - We are demonstrating the first voting system running Microsoft Election Guard as an example of… 
Trump Claims Census Question on Citizenship Still Alive (7/5/2019) - U.S. President Donald Trump contended Wednesday that the government will still try to ask a… 
Looking To Increase Voter Registration Of Underrepresented Arizonans (6/21/2019) - The Voter Participation Center is mailing 139,000 voter registration forms to Arizona residents.The group is… 
Does NYC’s Early Voting Plan Favor White, Affluent Voters? (5/20/2019) - An analysis from three advocacy groups shows New York City’s plan for early voting in… 
New Nevada Law Improves Access to Polling Locations on Tribal Lands (5/17/2019) - Governor Steve Sisolak has signed a bill into law that removes barriers to voting on… 
National Urban League Focusing on Minority Voting in 2020 (5/9/2019) - Voter suppression and Russian interference are some of the greatest barriers to minority voting in… 
Straight Talk on Race Becoming A Must for White Candidates (4/25/2019) - Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke of the "shame" he felt that some white people… Join the American Democracy Movement With DC!
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