Category Archives: Voting Rights

The Healthy Democracy, Healthy People Initiative and California, Texas, Florida, and New York Ratings

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

We present key graphs of the index showing the correlation between voting rights in the Healthy Democracy and Health Care in the Healthy People Initiative for all states, and then the health care rankings breakdown for the four most populous … Continue reading →

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The International Democracy Survey of 2022

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

For most countries, there are few changes from the Survey of 2021, which we recently put up.  The 2022 survey includes events through 2021.  The 2022 Survey is at V-dem.org.  It is a compilation of ratings from 0 to 1 … Continue reading →

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Putin’s Nuclear Threats, and the Danger of Authoritarians with Nuclear Powers

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Putin’s Nuclear Threats and the Danger of Authoritarians with Nuclear Powers Putin has now put his nuclear forces on alert, although there is no evidence of any threats to Russia or Russian forces in Ukraine from NATO or nuclear powers.  … Continue reading →

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The Democracy Index 2021 Summary

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Democracy Index 2021 Summary This is produced yearly by The Economist Intelligence Unit, based on 60 indicators in 5 categories.  Each category is rated 0-10, and then the overall score is their average.  We focus on those by size … Continue reading →

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The International Democracy Survey of 2021

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The International Democracy Survey Evaluation of governments for 2021 shows continual decrease in Democratic ratings.  They use 3,500 scholars and country experts to evaluate 179 countries on hundreds of attributes.  The 2021 report is at V-Dem.org.  In general, the global … Continue reading →

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2021 Voter Suppression Laws Compared to their States’ Mottos

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

2021 Voter Suppression Laws Compared to their States’ Mottos.  The Mottos were created when the states had the highest ideals in their formation. We work from the list of states shown in the MSNBC map of states which passed voter … Continue reading →

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The Three Trump Supremes: The Wrong Justices for the Ripe Times

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Three Trump Supremes:  The Wrong Justices for the Ripe Times We haven’t seen enough cases to see the emergence of the Trump Era on the Supreme Court caused by his highly biased choice of conservative and religious justices, but … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Election Interference Plots

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Trump’s Election Forces  While Trump appears to be slowly adapting to the new constraints of an election in a pandemic year, he is mustering a breadth of election forces which have long been contemplated and hinted at.  Several of them … Continue reading →

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Totally Masked Trump is Slowly Being Unmasked

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Totally Masked Trump is Slowly Being Unmasked Update:  July 7.  CNN reported from Mary Trump’s expose that Donald Trump hired another student (who she named) to take his S.A.T.’s for him.  This after two days of Trump doubling down on … Continue reading →

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The Judicial Corruption of Trump, Barr, McConnell, and the Republican Senate

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Judicial Corruption of Trump, Barr, McConnell, and the Republican Senate You don’t need to be a law professor to see mob rule. Yesterday’s huge corruption of justice is Trump’s Tulsa Rally promise to select and name 50 people who … Continue reading →

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