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Citizens United Should Not Have Been Enforced (10/23/2021) - Citizens United is without a doubt the Supreme Court's most contentious recent decision. Repealing it… 
$5.8 million in push for Democrats’ voting bill compromise (9/24/2021) - Advocates have provided $5.8million to encourage a voting bill compromise in Congress. The new bill… 
Did Seattle’s Democracy Vouchers Combat Big Money? (8/14/2021) - The results of the August 2021 mayoral primary, which was the first time vouchers were… 
Business Needs To Rethink Its Role In Politics (8/10/2021) - The most recent shift to stakeholder capitalism is accompanied by a darkening of politics not… 
The Big Money Behind The Big Lie (8/5/2021) - The "Big Lie" is Donald Trump's false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen… 
Prospective Economic Package Unleashes Lobbying Bonanza (8/4/2021) - Some 2000 businesses lobbied Congress and the administration in an attempt to shape the contours… 
Defending the Right to Vote (10/11/2021) - Stacey Abrams argues voting infrastructure is being gutted and the utility of a democratically elected… 
Pass the Freedom to Vote Act (9/21/2021) - After HR1's failure, Senate Democrats have proposed the Freedom to Vote Act. It is critical… 
Texas’s New Law, Climax of a Year For Voting Restrictions (9/10/2021) - 2021 has been a record-shattering year for voting restrictions. It reached fever-pitch when Texas passed… 
New Texas voting bill deepens growing voting disparities (9/8/2021) - More blue and red states are moving in opposite directions on voting disparities among Americans,… 
The Era of Easier Voting for Disabled People Is Over (8/27/2021) - "Thanks to absentee ballots, drop-off boxes, curbside voting, people with disabilities turned out in record… 
Voting Laws Roundup: July 2021 (8/26/2021) - Eighteen states have already enacted 30 laws that will make it harder for Americans to… 
Voting machine company Smartmatic sues OAN, Newsmax over election claims (11/11/2021) - Smartmatic, a voting technology company, is suing OAN and Newsmax for alleged slander and libel… 
Election Cybersecurity: Protecting Against Election Cyber Attacks (10/29/2021) - Intelligent systems can be used to gather data and communicate with other systems so they… 
Denver judge considers Trump’s anti-SLAPP defense (10/15/2021) - Defendant parties urged Judge Marie Avery Moses, Democrat-appointed, to dismiss the lawsuit under Colorado's anti-SLAPP… 
Ex-Kremlin mastermind predicts formation of ‘humanless democracies’ (10/15/2021) - In the light of the rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence, an ex-Kremlin mastermind has predicted… 
The Push For Internet Voting Continues, Mostly Thanks To One Guy (10/2/2021) - Voting by phone is considered grandiose and is often ridiculed. However, one American venture capitalist… 
Colorado: Clerk in Hiding After County Voting Data Leak (9/3/2021) - Voting data from Mesa County in Colorado was recently leaked. Following the incident, a Clerk… 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.
Ranked Choice Voting Survived Its Biggest Election Season Yet (11/24/2021) - Voters in several towns cast their ballots this month by ranking a slate of applicants… 
Rationalizing the Presidential Nomination Process (10/29/2021) - The evolution of how we elect presidents has been dependent on chance as much as… 
Ranked choice voting, a remedy to gerrymandering (10/22/2021) - Redistricting, pejoratively, gerrymandering, has been a problem since 1776. However, ranked choice voting is a… 
Ranked Voting May Offer Courts A Way To Fix Redistricting (9/1/2021) - Courts impose ranked-choice voting to remedy redistricting. It permits courts to correct redistricting without creating… 
The Price of Free Elections (8/31/2021) - How much does an election cost? For a democracy as old as that of the… 
How to reorganize democracy promotion efforts (11/2/2021) - The efficacy of US democracy and human rights efforts could be improved by better coordination… 
As Election Day nears, most adults say future of democracy under threat (11/1/2021) - When it comes to what and who is putting America at risk, Democrats and Republicans… 
Americans Who See Democracy Most At Risk? Republicans (10/26/2021) - According to a poll by Grinnell College, the majority of Americans believe that democracy in… 
‘Autocratization Turns Viral’ Says Swedish Report (10/22/2021) - A new University of Gothenburg report shows that the hybrid political system sometimes called "electoral… 
What If 2020 Was Just a Rehearsal? (9/28/2021) - Election law expert, Rick Hasen, argues American democracy faces imminent danger and Democrats aren't taking… 
Teaching the 26th Amendment With The New York Times (9/15/2021) - Learners can now study the history and meaning of the expansion of voting rights to… 
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… 
What’s Next For Kashmir After Losing Semi-Autonomy? (8/7/2021) - Stripped of semi-autonomy, Kashmiris fear an enduring loss of their region's special status as government… 
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,… 
Accommodations For Candidates With Disabilities (5/31/2021) - Despite some progress, there are structural problems preventing disabled people from participating in the electoral… 
Montana Tribes File Lawsuit Challenging New Voting Laws (5/19/2021) - On Monday, a group of Montana tribal nations filed a lawsuit challenging two new laws… Join the American Democracy Movement With DC!
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