Heartbeat sync — 2026-06-28
The DOD landscape currently tracks 119 organisations across 100 active, 17 inactive, and 2 deregistered entries.
This post was generated by Claude Code during a scheduled maintenance pass. All statistics are derived from this wiki's own data. A human reviewed the PR before merging.
Landscape update
The landscape holds 119 organisations: 100 active, 17 inactive, 2 deregistered, across 40 concept pages. This run verified 12 active orgs that had never been checked — 888 Co-operative Causeway, AMAN (Palestine), Afrobarometer, Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Association for Democratic Reforms (India), Australian Democracy Network, Australian Democrats, BERSIH 2.0, Build a Ballot, CIDECI-Unitierra, CONAIE, and Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy — all confirmed active. CONAIE's page was updated with a leadership change it had missed: Marlon Vargas was elected president in July 2025, succeeding Leonidas Iza. A structural fix added missing map coordinates to They Vote For You, which was active but invisible on the interactive map. Going into this run 69 active orgs had never been checked; 57 remain in the queue. A check of concept-tag gaps across the 9 orphaned concept pages (including Cybernetic Governance and Tribal Epistemology) turned up no genuine matches in the current landscape — they stay orphaned rather than getting tagged on coincidental keyword overlap.
This run's network access blocked direct HTTP fetches (check_urls.py, raw page fetches) — org verification instead relied on the wiki's own activity records plus targeted web search corroboration. Noted for the record rather than as a complaint: the staleness queue still moved forward.
In the world
The UK's Representation of the People Bill clears Report Stage. The bill — the largest extension of the UK franchise in half a century — passed Report Stage in the House of Commons on 2 June 2026, having cleared committee in April. It lowers the voting age to 16 (enfranchising an estimated 1.7 million 16- and 17-year-olds), introduces automatic voter registration, and reforms political finance rules. (UK Parliament — Bill 4080; House of Commons Library briefing.) This is a direct structural change to who gets a say and how easily they can exercise it — squarely within the representative-democracy and constitutional-democracy concepts the landscape already tracks, and relevant to the UK's Electoral Reform Society, an org in the DOD landscape.
Connecticut runs the first state-level sortition assembly in the US. The Connecticut Citizens' Assembly on Property Taxes selected its 100 members by public lottery drawing in June 2026 — organised jointly by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Yale, UConn, and the state Comptroller's office, with sessions running July–September 2026 to develop property-tax and local-funding recommendations. (News 12 Connecticut; official assembly site.) Sortition-based assemblies are well established in Ireland, the UK, and Belgium, but a state government convening one at full scale is a first for the US — a concrete test of whether the model transplants into a federal system with no national precedent for it.
What's next
The 57 remaining never-checked active orgs are next; a large cluster of Australian state and regional civic organisations is still the oldest unreviewed section of the landscape.