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Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.</p> <p> <a href="https://ash.harvard.edu/about/" class="button2 -fix1" text="About Us" target="_self"><span>About Us</span><i class="icon-directional-right-filled"></i></a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="colored1 -breakout -o:h -cs:d1 -cs:i -mb:0"> <div flex class="-gg:0"> <figure w="24/24/12" reveal="1/"> <span class="img1" style="--w: 840; --rl: 1;"> <img class="lazyload " data-src="https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Artikel_13_Demonstration_Koln_2019-03-23_49-2-500x375.jpg" alt="" data-srcset="https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Artikel_13_Demonstration_Koln_2019-03-23_49-2-500x375.jpg 500w, https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Artikel_13_Demonstration_Koln_2019-03-23_49-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Artikel_13_Demonstration_Koln_2019-03-23_49-2-1024x768.jpg 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class="insert1 card1-main" reveal="2/" aligned> <p class="card1-brow -mb:m3 -t:17 -c:a1t" >Feature </p> <h4 class="card1-title -t:5" ><span class="-a:1 -as:1">‘Both parties now can claim the mantle of a multiracial electorate’</span></h4> <div class="card1-lead -t:10" ><p>From global election trends to inflation anger, swing state performance, and failed voting reform initiatives, Harvard election law experts break down last week’s presidential election and what it might mean for the future of American democracy.</p> </div> <p class="card1-date -t:20 -c:d2t"><time datetime="">Nov 21, 2024</time></p> </div> </article> <article class="card1" w="24/12/8" reveal="1/" aligned hovercatch> <a href="https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/election-2024-appreciating-the-front-line-workers-of-democracy/" class="overlink1 card1-link -as:1" hoverwatch><span invisible>Election 2024: Appreciating The Front-Line Workers of Democracy</span></a> <div class="card1-line hr1 -thick -c:d1t" aria-hidden="true" reveal="3l/" aligned></div> <figure class="img1 card1-image -hover1" reveal="2/" aligned style="--w: 480; --rl: 0.58333333333333;"> <img class="lazyload " data-src="https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-email-template-700-x-350-67-500x250.png" alt=""I voted" stickers on top of each other" data-srcset="https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-email-template-700-x-350-67-500x250.png 500w, https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-email-template-700-x-350-67-300x150.png 300w, https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-email-template-700-x-350-67-1024x512.png 1024w, https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-email-template-700-x-350-67-768x384.png 768w, https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-email-template-700-x-350-67-100x50.png 100w, https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-email-template-700-x-350-67-250x125.png 250w, 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However, it is important that the public not be lulled into thinking this signals the end of election administrators’ problems.</p> </div> <p class="card1-date -t:20 -c:d2t"><time datetime="">Nov 20, 2024</time></p> </div> </article> <article class="card1" w="24/12/8" reveal="1/" aligned hovercatch> <a href="https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/sophie-pierre-named-inaugural-senior-fellow-in-indigenous-governance-and-development-at-harvard-kennedy-school/" class="overlink1 card1-link -as:1" hoverwatch><span invisible>Chief Sophie Pierre Named Inaugural Senior Fellow in Indigenous Governance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School</span></a> <div class="card1-line hr1 -thick -c:d1t" aria-hidden="true" reveal="3l/" aligned></div> <figure class="img1 card1-image -hover1" reveal="2/" aligned style="--w: 480; --rl: 0.58333333333333;"> <img class="lazyload " data-src="https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Sophie-Pierre-snow-background-500x333.jpg" alt="Photo of Sophie Pierre in 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