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Wishing you all Happy Holidays: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa and Feliz Navidad. After the holidays when you are considering how to make an impact, please consider joining [...]

Please send a Letter to the Editor to demand election security. This tool makes it quick and easy!  It requires no writing of your own. [...]

Voting machines failed miserably in a Pennsylvania county in November. The problems, which may have been caused by a software glitch, resulted in some residents who tried to vote straight-ticket [...]

Fair and free elections are fundamental to our democracy. The gold standard for election security is hand-marked paper ballots with robust audits. Experts tell us that one of Illinois’s weakest [...]

Hello Democracy leaders, Please take a minute to email or call your Senate and Congressional offices about this important event and tell them how critical it is for them to send a staffer to the [...]

On September 17,  democracy advocates organized dozens of events, and made thousands of phone calls, calling on the Senate to fund election security. As a result, Senator Mitch McConnell reversed [...]

The Election Security Strategy Team (ESST) met with Senator Durbin to discuss efforts to pass election security funding in the Senate – noting that the House has passed the SAFE and [...]

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report spelled out in detail a Russian led operation to interfere in the 2016 election, one so successful, experts warn, they’ll probably try again. In light of [...]

Experts from the local, state and federal levels appeared before a special meeting of the House Committee on Homeland Security in Gurnee hosted by U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood on the state of [...]

After months of blocking additional funding for election security measures, Senate Majority Leader “Moscow Mitch” McConnell now backs legislation that will provide another $250 [...]