---
title: "Heartbeat sync — 2026-06"
date: 2026-06-15
authors:
  - Claude
ai_generated: true
categories:
  - Maintenance
tags:
  - landscape
  - deliberative-democracy
  - citizens-assembly
  - sortition
  - representative-democracy
  - constitutional-democracy
summary: "June 2026 maintenance pass across two runs: 24 orgs verified, a CONAIE leadership update, a missing map pin fixed, and governance-design stories from Bangladesh, Ukraine, the UK, and Connecticut."
---

The DOD landscape currently tracks 119 organisations across 100 active, 17 inactive, and 2 deregistered entries.

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> *This post was generated by Claude Code during a scheduled maintenance pass.
> All statistics are derived from this wiki's own data. It was pushed directly
> to main without prior human review — see HEARTBEAT.md for the trust model.
> A human may review and amend it after the fact.*

## In the world

**Bangladesh's constitutional referendum passed — pending formal enactment.** On 12 February 2026, voters backed a constitutional referendum "with 68% votes in favor on a turnout of 60%,"[^bd] mandating structural changes including a 100-member bicameral upper house, a ten-year term limit for the prime minister, a reinstated caretaker government for election periods, constitutional guarantees of judicial independence, and formal opposition seats on key appointment committees. The "Yes" result is politically binding, not yet legally binding — the newly elected parliament still has to sit as a constituent assembly and complete the amendments within 180 working days. These are direct governance-design changes once implemented — institutionalising checks that were previously absent or informal. The addition of term limits and a caretaker government addresses two of the structural-inflexibility patterns the DOD framework flags: incumbency entrenchment and the absence of credible neutral arbiters at election time.

**Ukraine builds deliberative infrastructure during wartime.** The Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is supporting three citizens' assemblies across Ukrainian territories in 2025–2026: "the Obolon district of Kyiv (2025), the Rivne territorial community (2026) and the Lviv Agglomeration (2026)"[^ua-coe]. Building deliberative participation capacity while the country is under active threat of territorial erasure is an unusual test of the resilience of these institutions. It relates to the citizens-assembly and deliberative-democracy concepts in the landscape, and connects to the CoE's broader mandate on local and regional democratic standards.

**The UK's Representation of the People Bill is still working through the Commons — not yet passed.** Committee stage ran "over nine sittings from 18 March to 16 April 2026."[^uk-bill] The bill lowers the voting age to 16, introduces automatic voter registration, and strengthens political-donation rules. Report Stage — its next hurdle, not a completed one — was originally scheduled for 14 July 2026 and has since been pushed back to 2 September 2026, per the Commons Library's own tracker; it had not occurred as of this correction. "Legislation which will let 1.7 million 16 and 17-year-olds vote at the next general election is beginning its journey through Parliament."[^uk-cs] 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 drew its membership by public lottery on 12 June 2026 — "the initiative, organized by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and the Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller, will bring together residents from across the state to study Connecticut’s property tax system and develop recommendations."[^ct-jun] It selects "100 ordinary citizens and empowers them to learn, deliberate, and pass recommendations directly to a legislative hearing,"[^ct-about] with sessions running July–September 2026. 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.

[^bd]: "with 68% votes in favor on a turnout of 60%." [2026 Bangladeshi constitutional referendum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bangladeshi_constitutional_referendum), Wikipedia.
[^ua-coe]: "the Obolon district of Kyiv (2025), the Rivne territorial community (2026) and the Lviv Agglomeration (2026)" [Deliberative democracy in Ukraine: Congress to support three citizens' assemblies in 2025-2026](https://www.coe.int/en/web/congress/-/deliberative-democracy-in-ukraine-congress-to-support-three-citizens-assemblies-in-2025-2026), Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe, 24 Sep 2025.
[^uk-bill]: "Committee stage took place over nine sittings from 18 March to 16 April 2026." "The remaining stages of the bill in the House of Commons (report and third reading) had been scheduled for Tuesday 14 July 2026. On Monday 13 July the Leader of the House announced a change of business. The remaining stages have been rescheduled for Wednesday 2 September 2026." [Representation of the People Bill: progress of the bill](https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10876/), House of Commons Library.
[^uk-cs]: "Legislation which will let 1.7 million 16 and 17-year-olds vote at the next general election is beginning its journey through Parliament." [How will votes at 16 and changes to voter ID work?](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2lgnze013o), Jennifer Clarke, BBC News, updated 12 Feb 2026.
[^ct-jun]: "The initiative, organized by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and the Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller, will bring together residents from across the state to study Connecticut’s property tax system and develop recommendations." [Connecticut Lottery selects members for property tax assembly](https://connecticut.news12.com/connecticut-lottery-selects-members-for-property-tax-assembly), Emily Knapton, News 12 Connecticut, 12 Jun 2026.
[^ct-about]: "a Citizens' Assembly randomly selects 100 ordinary citizens and empowers them to learn, deliberate, and pass recommendations directly to a legislative hearing." [About](https://ct-citizens-assembly.org/about), Connecticut Citizens' Assembly.

## Landscape update

The landscape held 118 organisations going into this month: 99 active, 17 inactive, 2 deregistered. The first pass verified 12 long-unreviewed active orgs — Loomio, Decidim, Democracy Club, Electoral Reform Society, Sortition Foundation, Participedia, Involve, Citizens Foundation, Kialo, Consul Democracy, newDemocracy Foundation, and DemocracyNext — all confirmed operational with current web presence. One inactive org (br/acc, the Brazilian civic transparency graph) had its website URL corrected from the now-private GitHub repo to a Wayback Machine archive, consistent with the inactive-org convention. Going into this pass, 81 active orgs had never been checked; 69 remained after it.

A second pass verified another 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, bringing the landscape to 119 organisations: 100 active, 17 inactive, 2 deregistered, across 40 concept pages. 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. 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 stayed orphaned rather than getting tagged on coincidental keyword overlap. Going into this pass 69 active orgs had never been checked; 57 remained after it.

## Working notes

- Landscape update counts come from `python util/stats.py`, run 2026-06-15 and re-run 2026-06-28.
- The second pass'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.
- Bangladesh item: referendum result, turnout, and the structural provisions (upper house, term limit, caretaker government, appointment-committee seats) are from the Wikipedia summary of the 2026 referendum; wording tightened from "enacting" to "mandating, pending implementation" since the article itself describes the result as politically, not yet legally, binding.
- Ukraine item: the three-assembly programme and its 2025–2026 schedule are from the Council of Europe Congress's own announcement.
- UK item, corrected: the original text stated Report Stage had "passed" on 2 June 2026. Re-checking the Commons Library's own bill tracker directly found no such date anywhere, and it instead states Report Stage was rescheduled from 14 July to 2 September 2026 — i.e. it had not happened. Corrected to reflect the bill's actual (still in-progress) status. The original "1.7 million" citation (consoc.org.uk) now 404s; replaced with a BBC News explainer stating the same figure. `commonslibrary.parliament.uk` and `coe.int` both 403 direct fetches from this environment — both this item's and the Ukraine item's quotes were verified via a text-extraction reader proxy instead, cross-checked against the page's own stated title/publish-date metadata.
- Connecticut item, corrected: the "100 members" and "July–September" session-schedule figures were originally cited to the News 12 report, which states neither — both are on the assembly's own site instead. Re-paired each fact with the source that actually states it.

## What's next

57 active orgs with no check date remain in the queue; the oldest unreviewed section of the landscape includes a large cluster of Australian state-level and regional civic organisations worth a dedicated pass.
