DFN’s Executive Director Mike Berkowitz shares some of the numerous options funders have for demonstrating civic leadership leading up to and immediately following the election, and in the process, ensuring public safety and protecting democratic values and norms. READ MORE>
Through data visualization, the Brennan Center for Justice outlines the policies states already have and still need in order to best protect the November 2020 election from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Democracy scholar Larry Diamond reflects on the necessary conditions to preserve U.S. democracy through the 2020 election: the ability for all citizens to vote in a secure and timely manner, and for the results of that vote to determine who takes power.
In 2016, nearly 100 million eligible Americans did not cast a vote for president, representing 43% of the eligible voting-age population. In this analysis, Knight Foundation explores this population, soliciting their views, attitudes and behaviors on a wide range of topics. The study reveals that persistent non-voters are by no means a monolithic group, but as varied as American society itself.
In response to our current moment of public health and democracy crises, the Ad Hoc Committee for 2020 Election Fairness and Legitimacy published this report, detailing fourteen specific recommendations for immediate changes that should be implemented to increase voter confidence in the fairness and legitimacy of the 2020 elections.
Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided and argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters.
In this 2020 book, election law expert Richard Hasen vividly describes the four factors increasing distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. Hasen goes on to offer concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined.
