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A 90-second radio report and podcast which keeps you informed of the key democracy issues in the U.S. Visit us at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org, on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter @democracyminute. The American Democracy Minute is the successor to the Open Democracy Minute, produced from 2019 to 2022 and focused on NH democracy issues. Click on the ADM Logo on the episode, or in other players, the Play ⏯️ button. Are you a radio station? Find our broadcast files at Pacifica Radio Network's A ...
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 16, 2024 Doesn’t U.S. Law Already Prohibit Non-Citizens from Voting in Federal Elections? Yes, it Does. In an announcement April 11th heralded as a major “election integrity” policy proposal, former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced their intention to requi…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 15, 2024 Ever Wonder The Reason It Took So Long for the IRS to Offer an Online Tax Preparation App? Big Money Lobbying. The IRS has a pilot program in 12 states this year to file your personal taxes online for free without the use of 3rd party software. Wonder why it took so long? Big m…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 12, 2024 Michigan Case Which Used the ‘Independent State Legislature Theory’ to Challenge Voting Rights Ballot Questions is Dismissed We reported last October that 11 Michigan GOP legislators used the “Independent State Legislature” theory to challenge two Michigan ballot questions expa…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 11, 2024 National Study of Elections Officials Confirms Turnover from Harassment, But Also Finds An Aging Workforce and Increasing Workloads are Factors Disinformation spread about the 2020 election by candidates & partisan groups mobilized extremists to harass or threaten election offi…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 10, 2024 Trying to Game the System, Missouri Legislature Proposes Ballot Question Rule Changes to Head Off Reproductive Rights Question in November In the face of a reproductive rights ballot question later this year, Missouri’s legislature is the latest to try to game the system, makin…
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One more day of repeats and we're back doing new reports! Thanks for your patience while we navigated the challenges of the past week. - Brian Beihl The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 9, 2024 Nonpartisan Report Recommends Ways Local Officials Can Expand Voter Participation and Recruit Election Workers Using Public/Privat…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 8, 2024 Another day of no power and no interenet in my area of New Hampshire – we’ve been out since April 3rd — so we’re posting a report from mid-February. There were crews working down the street, so hopefully soon! – Brian Beihl True the Vote’s Claim of Evidence of 2020 Ballot Stuffi…
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Today, Brian is one of over a 100,000 electric customers in NH without power, due to high winds and over a foot of heavy, wet snow. Fortunately, we still have internet -- for now -- and are writing under generator power. Here's an important rebroadcast from February. Have a good weekend; I'll be shoveling! The American Democracy Minute Radio Report…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 4, 2024 In April 2 Presidential Primaries, Wisconsin Voters Approve Restraints on Running Elections, and Large Numbers of Voters Unhappy With Nominees April 2nd, Wisconsin voters passed two ballot questions impacting how local elections are run, and in Wisconsin and other states’ primar…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 3, 2024 Despite the Salacious Details, Trump’s Alleged NY ‘Hush Money’ Actions Covered Up Serious Campaign Finance Violations On the eve of former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial, the media has focused on the salacious details, but not as much on the cover-up of less titil…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 2, 2024 Montana Supreme Court Throws Out Four Anti-Voter Laws Targeting Native American, Younger, Elderly, and Disabled Voters In a victory for voters, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision March 27th, striking down four anti-voter laws which disproportionately impacted …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 1, 2024 Federal Courts Leave Racially Gerrymandered South Carolina, North Carolina & Florida Maps in Place for 2024 Election Three federal court actions last week in South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida cases let stand racially-gerrymandered maps diluting Black voting power. Those…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 29, 2024 Arizona Senate Committee Endorses Constitutional Amendment Ending the State’s Popular No-Excuse Mail-in and Early In-Person Voting An Arizona Senate committee March 18th endorsed a 2024 constitutional amendment ballot question which would end no-excuse mail-in voting, end in-pe…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 28, 2024 Have You Been Purged? States Have Stepped Up Removals of Inactive Voters - Sometimes for Partisan Advantage – and It’s Time to Check Your Registration Maintenance of voter registration lists is a standard practice, to remove voters who’ve died, moved, or are no longer eligible.…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 27, 2024 Five States Are Considering Conspiracy-Fueled Legislation Which Bans Ballot Tabulators. But Fed-Up Voters are Pushing Back. Five states are considering legislation banning electronic ballot tabulators, driven by debunked conspiracy theories that the machines were used to rig th…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 26, 2024 April 2nd Wisconsin Ballot Measures Would Prohibit Outside Help & Funding, Hampering Small Town Elections While the candidates for President have already been decided, April 2nd, Wisconsin voters must still vote on two important ballot questions with roots in 2020 conspiracy th…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 25, 2024 Brian has just returned from traveling. A new episode for Tuesday will be posted Monday by noon. How the Changing Social Media Landscape Could Hamper the Fight Against Disinformation from Both Foreign and Domestic Bad Actors We reported recently on Russia’s anticipated 2024 ele…
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Brian is traveling today, and we have a rebroadcast of an important study by Issue One that came out last fall. An example of this debased logic was a hand count that Votebeat Texas covered in Gillespie County, where only 8,000 ballots were cast. It took more election workers until 4:30 in the morning, and it's now become apparent that there are co…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 21, 2024 Brian is traveling Wed-Thurs-Friday, so we're posting some still-timely rebroadcasts. You can follow the reported expenditures of the 2024 Presidential candidates at BallotPedia or Open Secrets. At the 14th Anniversary of Citizens United, SuperPACs and Candidates Spent Over $30…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 20, 2024 Federal Court Releases Redistricting Maps After Striking Down Districts Diluting Latino Voting Power A Washington State fight over Latino voting rights may still not be over, but March 15th, a federal judge approved new state house and senate maps for central Washington State. …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 19, 2024 NH ‘Election Information Portal’ Funding Passes State Senate. Will the Granite State Finally Enter the 21st Century? Former New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner famously quipped, “You can’t hack a pencil.” Perhaps, but that mindset has set the Granite State decades beh…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 18, 2024 ‘Election Integrity’ Gone Bad: Updates on Michigan’s Electronic Ballot Tabulator Tampering Cases We reported extensively last year on the alleged tampering of electronic vote tabulators in Michigan following the 2020 election. The first of three trials is imminent, but after fa…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 15, 2024 Never Mind . . . After Trump Shake-Up at RNC, 'Bank Your Vote' Mail-In Voting Campaign Dropped, 'Election Integrity' Unit Created Instead We reported last month that the Republican National Committee unveiled its 2024 “Bank the Vote” campaign to encourage Republicans to vote ea…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 14, 2024 NC Legislature’s Stripping of Governor’s Appointment Power to Election Boards Overturned; SCOTUS Decision Expected in SC Gerrymandering Case A North Carolina appeals court struck down the state legislature’s new law removing the governor’s appointment power for election boards.…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 13, 2024 NV Judge Upholds Discriminatory Voter ID Ballot Measure, While Striking Down Another Ballot Measure Establishing an Independent Redistricting Commission A Nevada circuit court judge issued a pair of eyebrow-raising orders March 6th on proposed citizen ballot measures. One order…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 12, 2024 Alabama Legislature Poised to Add More Barriers to Absentee Voting, Claiming ‘Ballot Harvesting,’ Despite No Evidence The Alabama legislature is poised to further restrict absentee voting, claiming it is protecting elections from “ballot harvesting.” Democracy advocates point t…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 11, 2024 Oregon Legislature Passes Campaign Contribution Limits and Disclosure, Dodging an Even Stricter Ballot Initiative Oregon’s legislature took a step March 7th to limit the influence of money in politics by capping campaign finance contributions. But it may preempt an even stricte…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 8, 2024 Iowa House Requires Mail Ballots to Be Returned Before Election Day, Bans RCV, and Allows Convicted Felons to Qualify to Run in Federal Elections The Republican-dominated Iowa House passed regulations March 5th which would require voters to return mail ballots the day BEFORE ele…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 6, 2024 Nonpartisan Report Recommends Ways Local Officials Can Expand Voter Participation and Recruit Election Workers Using Public/Private Partnerships The nonpartisan Fair Elections Center released a report to state and local election officials in February suggesting ways voter partic…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 6, 2024 After Cleaning Up Gerrymandered State Senate & Assembly Districts, the Wisconsin Supreme Court Passes on Congressional Districts March 1st, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the state’s Congressional districts, after throwing out state assembly and sena…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 5, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Colorado Court’s Removal of Donald Trump from the State’s Ballot In a unanimous decision March 4th, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to remove Donald Trump from the Colorado State ballot, ending st…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 4, 2024 John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Reintroduced to Restore VRA “Preclearance” Requirements for States with Ongoing Voter Suppression The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act has been reintroduced in the U.S Senate, backed by virtually every civil rights and democracy o…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 1, 2024 After Caving to Conspiracy Theorists, States Which Left ERIC Now Using Weaker & More Expensive Alternatives; At Least One State May Rejoin ERIC. Last year, we followed the exodus of nine states from the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, driven by baseless cons…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 9, 2023 Delaware Court Strikes Down Permanent Absentee Voter List and Early Voting Laws as Unconstitutional, Affecting Tens of Thousands for 2024 A Delaware Superior Court judge struck down two early voting laws Feb. 23rd affecting tens of thousands of voters who were approved for a perma…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 28, 2024 In Four Super Tuesday Primary States There’s Still Time to Register to Vote, Thanks to Election Day Registration The 17-state Super Tuesday Presidential Primary is March 5th. In 10 of those states, if you haven’t already registered to vote, you’re out of luck. But thanks to same…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 27, 2024 The RNC Weaves a Tangled Web, Pushing Early & Mail-In Voting to Its Base, While Litigating and Legislating to Limit It In Swing States We reported yesterday that GOP state efforts in Florida to discourage voting by mail could also suppress Republican voters otherwise unable to g…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 26, 2024 A Majority of Americans Like Voting by Mail - Including Many Florida Republicans. Making it Harder May Keep Them From Voting, Too. One of the conspiracy theories trumpeted after the 2020 elections was that voting by mail leads to widespread voter fraud. None of it was true. But,…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 23, 2024 Not One, Not Two, But Three Lawsuits Contesting Arizona’s New Election Procedure Manual for Election Officials We’re in Arizona today, where a new and normally mundane Election Procedure Manual for election officials has attracted not one, not two, but three GOP lawsuits. Our po…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb 22, 2024 True the Vote’s Claim of Evidence of 2020 Ballot Stuffing in Georgia Were . . . Not True The election denier group True the Vote is one of the loudest and most aggressive in casting doubt on the 2020 election. In Georgia, its claims of fraudulent absentee ballots being deposited …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 21, 2024 WI Gov. Signs Fairer Maps, MO High Court Rejects Challenge to State Senate Map, and NV’s Redistricting Commission Ballot Question Struck Down Wisconsin’s governor signed off on state legislative maps February 19th, fixing some of the worst gerrymandering in the U.S. Missouri’s S…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 20, 2024 NY’s Redistricting Commission Proposes Another Congressional Map with a Slight Democratic Edge, But This Time with a 9-1 Bipartisan Endorsement When we last reported on New York’s Congressional redistricting drama, the state supreme court threw out a special master’s competitive…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 19, 2024 In Win for Voters, George Election Board Refuses to Recommend Dropping No-Excuse Absentee Voting to Legislature A bipartisan effort in 2005 implemented no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia, and in 19 years, there have been only six convictions of absentee voter fraud. Despite th…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 16, 2024 CISA & FBI Warn Secretaries of State to Prepare for Potential Cyberattacks and AI Voter Suppression Before the 2024 Election Election security experts warned the country’s secretaries of state to take immediate steps to harden their election systems in both cities and rural prec…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 15, 2024 In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair Maps In a game of chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP legislators passed somewhat competitive redistricting maps proposed D…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 14, 2024 Updates on Trump’s Immunity Challenge, AI Robocalls, and Election Denier-Fueled Hand Counting of Ballots We’re updating recent stories today, including Donald Trump’s request for a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on his immunity case, action by the FCC on use of AI in robocalls…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb. 13, 2024 Survey Finds Strong Support from Americans for Early Voting & Election Day Holiday Reforms, but Restrictive Government-Issued ID Requirements A new study by Pew Research finds Americans broadly support such democracy reforms as making election day a holiday and two weeks of in p…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb 12, 2024 Scholars Question SCOTUS LeanToward Not Allowing States to Ban Federal Candidates as It Tries to Navigate a 14th Amendment Minefield After oral arguments were heard February 8th in Donald Trump’s 14th Amendment eligibility case, some legal scholars voiced concerns that the pendin…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb 9, 2024 Arizona Legislator and 2020 Fake Elector Proposes the State Legislature – Not the Voters – Should Pick the State’s Presidential Electors An Arizona State Senator has introduced a resolution to take the state’s voters out of the U.S. Presidential election process. Not surprisingly,…
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT & LINKS February 8, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Live Stream of Oral Arguments in Donald Trump’s Eligibility for Office Under the 14th Amendment, Section 3 - 10 AM Eastern We urge our listeners to tune into the oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court today, as former President Donald Trump challenges the ruling by the Colorado Supr…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Feb 8, 2024 Suspected Senders Identified in AI-Generated Robo Calls Faking Joe Biden’s Voice Before New Hampshire’s Presidential Primary Our podcasting host recently made changes which stops us from including our entire script as part of the podcast content. To view the whole script, please g…
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