Democracy/Elections/Voting Rights

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Race and Voting, Past and Present
Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.
A Time to Listen
Pancho Villa and followers.
Mexico’s Great Transition
Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 presidential election recount.
Disputed Elections: An American Tradition
Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.
Arguing the Electoral College: Con
In the 2020 presidential election (held using 2010 census data) Joe Biden received 306 (●) and Donald Trump 232 (●) of the total 538 electoral votes. In Maine (upper-right) and Nebraska (center), the small circled numbers indicate congressional districts. These are the only two states to use a district method for some of their allocated electors, instead of a complete winner-takes-all.
Arguing the Electoral College: Pro
Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.
Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida
Restored color photo of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?
Photo of Eugene V. Debs from 1900.
Let’s Hear It for the Losers!
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.
An October Surprise Again?
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.
The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History
Dick Cheney in 2003.
The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics
Vicente Fox Quesada
Will Fox be a Mexican Jefferson?
Russian peasants in the early 20th century.
Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia
University of Notre Dame's administration building.
The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century
President Richard Nixon in 1969.
The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle
Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.
Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech
Chinese tanks in Beijing in 1989
Honoring China’s June 4th Martyrs
President Bill Clinton in 1999.
History of Sixth-Year Elections Bodes Well for Democrats
A photo of Helmut Kohl in1987.
Germany After Kohl
Senator Fred Thompson at the Chattanooga Summit in 1996.
Back to the Future of Fund-Raising Scandals
An image comparing Communism to Naziism
Historical Analogies and the China Debate
The Dalai Lama waves to a crowd during a visit to the Netherlands in the 1980s.
Hong Kong and Tibet
Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Chair GDN Board of Directors, kicks off the 10th annual GDN conference.
Broken Promises in Mexico