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Joe Biden has told the world leaders invited to the White House summit for democracy that preserving democracy is “the challenge of our time”.
The US president pledged that the US is going to “lead by example”.
Americans face unprecedented barriers to having their voices heard in the upcoming 2022 and 2024 elections, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said on Wednesday.
In a panel at the Reuters Next conference, Griswold warned of multiple dangers to democracy in the United States, including bills designed to suppress voting, death threats against election officials and mistruths perpetuated by politicians both nationally and on a state level.