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Leadership in Democracy Cohort 2021 Announced News provided by Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Robert R. McCormick Foundation, GCR Consulting and the Executive Service Corps are launching the second cohort of the Leadership in Democracy Program in late January 2021. The Program strives to develop high-capacity civic leaders, representative of the communities they serve, who invite constituent participation and advocate for and implement inclusive...

Bannon Wants To Cheat, But Doesn’t Know How Votes Are Counted Photo by Nordiske Mediedager/ CC BY-SA 2.0 This article was produced by of the Independent Media Institute. One of President Trumps most loyal propagandists is predicting that Trump will claim victory on election night as soon as he is ahead among Election Day voters. But that scenario is based on a misconception of how all ballots are counted and the early returns are compiled, according to election and legal ...

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein Even after President Donald Trumps disproven allegations of voter fraud fueled last weeks deadly assault on the US Capitol, Republicans across an array...

Republicans still push false fraud claims to restrict voting CNN 1/12/2021 Analysis by Ronald Brownstein © ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they push barricades to storm the US Capitol in Washington D.C on January 6, 2021. Even after President Donald Trumps disproven allegations of voter fraud fueled last weeks deadly assault on the US Capitol, Republicans across an array of swing states are still touting his baseles...

Trump administration lawyers told a federal judge the figures could be ready in March.

Trump vs. the truth: The most outrageous falsehoods of his presidency Jane C. Timm © Provided by NBC News President Donald Trump spent his first days in office pushing false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd. He has spent the final weeks of his term blitzing the American people with falsehoods and far-fetched conspiracies as part of a failed attempt to overturn the election he lost — cementing his legacy as what fact checkers and presidential historians say is ...

Microsoft’s skills initiative hopes to help 25 million people around the world secure digital skills. In June, Microsoft made a public commitment to be more inclusive as an employer and to extend Microsoft’s support and outreach programs in Black and African American communities. As part of this, Microsoft’s community skills program will provide financial grants and tech enablement to community-based non-profits reaching 5 million unemployed workers who need it most. This is a look at i.c...

Come from the bench. joining me now, alicia bannon, managing director of the democracy program at the brennan center for justice. i read your op-ped piece, and it was just stunning as one that heads a civil rights group to think the data that i just read, and you can give more, of how we are stacking the courts with white men, some states only white men have ever been on the state bench, and this is where most of the crimes are dealt with on a state level. >> thats exactly right. 95% of all case...

Require paper backups in future elections. so, thats part of the issue. elections in america even what you think of as national elections are not necessarily national. theyre just a lot of local elections. >> theyre complicated. joining us to discuss this, wendy wiser, director of democracy program at nyu. thank you for being here. walk us through this. the state that is dont have paper backups, what do they do to protect the vote? >> we have actually had a lot of redundant systems in place, reg...