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Best of the Expand Democracy 5: Electoral Reform – Week 2 August 14th, 2025

‼️Just in! Best of the Expand Democracy 5 – Week 2: Electoral Reform

How can changing election rules make democracy fair & inclusive?

🗳️ Open Primaries
📣 Freedom to Associate
🏛️ Rethinking House Size
🔓 Restoring Voting Rights
💰 Money in NYC’s Mayoral Race

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Best of the Expand Democracy 5: Innovations in State Legislatures – Week 1 August 7th, 2025

In August, we’re revisiting some favorite #ExpandDemocracy5 stories.

This week’s theme: Innovations in State Legislatures
🖥️ CA's Digital Democracy
💸 NYC's Public Financing
🔄 Voting reform in AK & OR
🗳️ Ballot access in WY
📉 VA cuts voter data costs

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The Expand Democracy 5: RCV and its critics, the root of the “re-gerrymander”, expanding citizen initiatives, deliberative democracy, and timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. In August, we’ll be taking a break from new content, but we look forward to sharing grouped posts from this year’s editions that we believe are...

This week’s Expand Democracy 5 is live!
🗳️ RCV and its critics
💰 Re-gerrymandering explained
💪 Expanding citizen initiatives @newamerica.org
🎬 Deliberative democracy in action
🕙 Timely links
We’re taking a break in August—so don’t miss this one!
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🚨 New Expand Democracy 5 is live! 🚨

🕳️ Why conspiracy theories thrive in a two-party system
🌊 The rise of Japan’s “Japanese First” party
⚡ Michigan’s new push for RCV @rankmivote.bsky.social
🎓 College reform stacking
🕙 Timely links

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The Expand Democracy Five - Rebalancing governance, "sore losers", political violence, closed primaries, and timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With the assistance of Juniper Shelley and Eveline Dowling, we highlight timely links and stories about democracy at the local, national, and g...

🗳️ New from the Expand Democracy 5:

🚀 Rebalancing global, national & local governance
🏳️ How to lose without breaking democracy
💡 Ways to protect candidates from violence
⚡ Independents take on PA’s closed primaries
🔗 Timely links

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The Expand Democracy 5: Elon’s push for a third party, turnout and RCV in NYC, preserving voting rights for the incarcerated, cancelled Miami elections, and timely links July 10th, 2025

📬 The Expand Democracy 5 is out! 📬

🚀 Elon’s third party reflects issues in the two-party system
🏆 RCV and voter turnout in NYC
⚡ Preserving rights for incarcerated citizens
❌ Cancelled Miami election sparks outrage
🕓 Timely links

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The Expand Democracy 5: A Supreme Court out of balance, collaborative legislative rules, a public primary, faster way to tally ranked choice voting elections, and timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With the assistance of Eveline Dowling and Juniper Shelley, we highlight timely links and stories about democracy at the local, national, and g...

🚨 The latest Expand Democracy 5 is here! 🚨

This week:

🔁 Restoring balance to the Supreme Court
💡 Better legislative rules
🔓 A “Public Primary” for independents
🧭 A faster way to tally ranked choice voting elections
🕓 Timely links

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The Expand Democracy 5: Mamdani’s win under RCV, bipartisan union for citizen-initiated ballot measures, VA cuts voter data costs, voting barriers in Native American communities, and timely links June 26th, 2025

📬 The Expand Democracy 5 is out now!

🏆 How RCV reshaped Zohran Mamdani’s NYC primary win
⚡ Defense of citizen-initiated ballot measures
💸 Virginia slashes voter data costs
🚧 Persistent barriers to voting in Native American communities
🕓 Timely links

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The Expand Democracy 5: Competitive elections, constitutional right to vote, voting rights restoration, Ballotpedia as a national voter guide, timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling and Juniper Shelley’s assistance, we highlight timely links and stories about democracy at the local, national, and global...

🚨 Expand Democracy 5 is out! 🚨

🔁 Lack of competition in general elections
💡 A constitutional right to vote
🔓 Voting rights for those with past felony convictions
🧭 @ballotpedia.org's role as a national voter guide
🕓 Links on reform, advocacy, and civic action

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The Expand Democracy 5: Psychological roots of political violence, reimagining the voter guide, Citizens’ Initiative Assemblies, allowing 17-year-olds to vote, and timely links June 12th, 2025

🚨 New Expand Democracy 5 just dropped! 🚨

🧨 The psychology of political violence in America
💡 Reimagining the voter guide
📖 Creating citizens’ initiative assemblies
⚡ Allowing 17-year-olds to vote
🕓 This week’s timely links

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The Expand Democracy 5: Improving presidential primaries, independent expenditures in NYC, global presidential elections, the political gender divide, and timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we lift up timely links and stories about democracy locally, nationally, and on a global scale. Today's stor...

Better late than never! 🚨 @robrichie.bsky.social covers in the new Expand Democracy 5:

🗳️ Fixing prez primaries
💰 Independent $ in NYC’s mayoral race
🌍 Global election norms
➗ Gen Z’s gender divide
+ more!

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The Expand Democracy 5: The future of RCV, engaging young people, internal election rules, faster runoff elections, and timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s help, we explore five ways democracy is evolving—locally, nationally, and globally. Today's stories include:

🚨 New Expand Democracy 5 is out!
This week we explore:

🌟 RCV momentum
🧒 Youth civic engagement @icivics.bsky.social @citizenuniversity.bsky.social
💡 Smarter leadership selection
⚡ Faster runoff elections
🕓 Timely links on media & judicial races
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🚨 This week's Expand Democracy 5 is out! We explore:

🌍 UK & Australia elections
🗳️ Open primaries via @openprimaries.bsky.social
🌱 Bipartisan climate views (@moreincommonus.bsky.social)
🎖️ Voting access for military families

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The Expand Democracy 5 - May 15: Empowering legislatures, better RCV polling, challenges to Democratic health & timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we delve into: (1) how better elections could empower legislatures; (2) the 2025 World Press Freedom on dist...

🚨 The latest Expand Democracy 5 is out!

🗳️ @robrichie.bsky.social on how better elections can revive legislatures
📰 RSF’s 2025 Index: Economic fragility threatens press freedom
📊 Getting RCV polling right in NYC

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The Expand Democracy 5: Bridging across ideology, public opinion on the press, House size, electing a new Pope, and timely links May 1st, 2025

🚨 New issue of Expand Democracy 5 is out! We cover:
- Mayor Pete on Flagrant
- VRA under threat
- Cross-ideological dialogue
- Expand the House?
- What Pope elections can teach us
- Plus recs from @icivics.bsky.social, @fairvote.bsky.social, and more.
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The Expand Democracy 5: Public financing, judicial reform, good government, ballot access and timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we delve into the following links.

This week's The Expand Democracy 5 dives into how the Campaign Finance Board makes public financing work in New York City, D.C. statehood, ballot access fairness, and more! Read on using the link below ⬇️
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The Expand Democracy 5: Public financing, judicial reform, good government, ballot access and timely links Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we delve into the following links.

This week's The Expand Democracy 5 dives into how the Campaign Finance Board makes public financing work in New York City, D.C. statehood, ballot access fairness, and more! Read on using the link below ⬇️
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The Expand Democracy 5: Turnout in off-cycle elections, RCV on campus, and Electoral College reform April 17th, 2025

Check out the latest issue of The Expand Democracy 5! This week, we discuss voter turnout in off-calendar elections, RCV at college campuses, and updates on electoral college reform. Read more here:

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Expand Democracy 5: New ideas, money in elections, and more civil campaigns April 3rd, 2025

The latest Expand Democracy 5 is here! Learn how California engages citizens in digital democracy, Canada conducts snap elections, and insights from special elections in Wisconsin and Florida.

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The Expand Democracy 5: March 27, 2025 A Weekly Report on 5 Timely Stories on Democracy in the USA and around the World

🚀 Introducing The Expand Democracy 5!
A weekly newsletter with 5 key insights on elections, governance, and democracy—delivered straight to you. Stay informed, stay engaged.
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Why not just call RCV Runoff Elections? In discussions with an elderly voter in Colorado about Proposition 131, the unsuccessful 2024 ballot measure to create a nonpartisan primary with ranked choice voting (RCV), in the general election, w...

New pub alert🚨 Senior Fellow Eveline Dowling, along with Caroline Tolbert, have released a new article titled "Why Not Just Call RCV Runoff Elections" on the Fulcrum - check it out here: thefulcrum.us/civic-engage...

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Expand Democracy Transforming Elections, Empowering Voters, Strengthening Democracy

Exciting news! Expand Democracy is officially launched. We’re here to support bold ideas for electoral reform, voter rights, and global democratic connections. Join the movement and share your vision for a better democracy: www.expanddemocracy.org #ExpandDemocracy #DemocracyInnovators #VotingReform