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Ranked Choice Voting: US Elections

250 Years of American Democracy

1776 → 2026 → next

250 years should not mean 250 years without improvement.

American democracy has changed again and again. Who could vote changed. How senators were elected changed. Voting protections changed. The voting system itself can be examined too.

1776 The American experiment begins.
1787–1789 The Constitution creates the new federal system.
1870 15th Amendment.
1913 17th Amendment: direct election of U.S. senators.
1920 19th Amendment.
1964 24th Amendment.
1965 Voting Rights Act.
1971 26th Amendment lowers the voting age to 18.
What next? Participation. Expression. Representation. Better ballots.

Dates and historical claims will be linked to constitutional, statutory, archival, and scholarly sources in the data pass.