If nothing else, the Green Party leader’s quixotic recount bid shows that election administration in the U.S. is a colossal mess.
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Republicans Gear Up to Eviscerate the Campaign-Finance Rules
From “Charity PACs” to soft money, Donald Trump and his GOP allies are just getting started on their campaign to roll back restrictions on moneyed interests.
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Reforming Democracy in the Age of Trump
On November 10, Miles Rapoport sat down with Bob Herbert’s Op-Ed.TV to discuss what led to Donald Trump’s victory, what it means for voting rights and money in politics, and how democracy reformers should respond. Rapoport is a long-time democracy advocate who served as secretary of state in Connecticut, and president of both Demos and […]
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Democrats Must Mobilize America’s Largest Political Party: Nonvoters
Nearly half of eligible voters did not cast a ballot on November 8, and most of them are people the Democratic Party should be targeting.
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Democrats Make Gains in North Carolina Against Backdrop of Voter Suppression
Changing demographics, combined with the three-year effort by state Republicans to suppress minority and youth turnout, led to close races.
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‘Rigged Election’ Claims Degrade Democracy. But ‘Rigged System’ Charges Enhance It.
Both Democrats and Republicans have charged that our economic system is “rigged” to benefit the wealthy, but only the GOP has advanced the destructive and conspiracist claim that the election itself is “rigged.”
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What If Election Day Were a Holiday, and Everyone Was Registered?
After this dark campaign, there are several lessons that America could learn from Israel about how to run an election. Really.
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Three Reasons Why Voting Won’t Be Rigged
And what we should really worry about next
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Democrats Get Out the Vote. Republicans Suppress It.
Diverse approaches to a changing America
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The Election is Rigged After All — Against African Americans
Voting rights advocates have won a string of court battles, but state election officials have found ways to restrict early voting anyway—often at the behest of GOP leaders.