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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… 
Senate to Support More Money for Election Security: Brennan Center Statement (9/20/2019) - Brennan Center for Justice has issued a statement following news that Senate will support more… 
Common Cause looks at the shortfalls of Senate Election Security Funding (9/20/2019) - Common Cause President Karen H. Flynn has issued a statement on the recent boost to… 
Appeals Court: Trump Liable in view of Emoluments Clauses (9/18/2019) - A federal appeals court says President Trump can be sued for unconstitutionally benefiting from his… 
Two ranking U.S. Senators introduce bill to remove barriers to voting (1/20/2020) - On Thursday, two ranking U.S. Senators introduced the Accessible Voting Act, which would support state… 
Bipartisan panel urges nationwide broad remake of voting procedures (1/17/2020) - All states should adopt automatic voter registration, expand mail-in voting and use new auditing practices… 
How Federal Voting Assistance Program encourages airmen 2020 vote (1/13/2020) - Although Incirlik Airmen may be away from their home state they still have the ability… 
Voting rights: the Bloomberg plan (1/13/2020) - Mike Bloomberg's voting rights plan is to prevent voter suppression on the basis of inactivity,… 
New Book Examines Lowering the Voting Age to 16 (1/5/2020) - This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global… 
A Precinct Too Far: Turnout and Voting Costs (1/5/2020) - Study on the effects of voting costs—specifically, distance to polling location—using geographic discontinuities. 
Why Election Security Experts Are Worried About Los Angeles (1/19/2020) - Los Angeles County is moving full steam ahead with plans to use its new election… 
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… 
Georgia election server showed signs of tampering: Expert (1/16/2020) - Election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs… 
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… 
Voters are the reason new “secure” voting machines are still at risk (1/9/2020) - A major study shows that people rarely notice if their vote gets changed by hackers—even… 
Lessons from Michigan: updating election equipment, thorny challenge for States (1/6/2020) - Lessons from Michigan show the extent to which updating election equipment remains a thorny challenge… 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.
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… 
Nevada: Grassroots independent citizen redistricting commission initiative (12/7/2019) - A grassroots initiative aims to take power to draw districts from legislators and give it… 
“Redistricting activists brace for wall of inaction as battle moves to states” (11/12/2019) - North Carolina lawmakers have been forced back to the drawing board after state court ruled… 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… 
Hacking 2020 Voting Systems Is A ‘Piece Of Cake’ (10/1/2019) - It’s still child’s play to pick apart election systems that will be used in the… 
Election security: Colorado pioneers banning of vote counting barcodes (9/19/2019) - Citing security concerns, Colorado has become the first state to stop counting votes with printed… 
Four challenges to world democracy in 2020 (1/2/2020) - Jong Lee, Senior Fellow at the South Korean East Asia Institute has outlined four challenges… 
Chronic Undercounting of Native Americans in the Census (12/30/2019) - Native Americans feel like they don't count. And they might not be wrong — they… 
Many people in Indian Country still face voting barriers (12/10/2019) - Many in Indian Country, including on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation, are still faced with barriers… 
Conference of Democratic Governors announces initiatives targeted at voting rights (12/10/2019) - The DGA and Fair Right are combining efforts to battle perceived attempts to suppress the… 
Bill Restores 2013 Supreme-Court-Struck Voting Rights Act Protections (12/9/2019) - On Friday the House passed Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R.4) restoring protections in 1965 Voting… 
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… Join the American Democracy Movement With DC!
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