The current system makes it difficult for non-partisan candidates to get on the ballot and seek financing. Fundamental reforms are needed to open the electoral process to candidates who think and speak for themselves if the partisan divide that threatens true democracy can be eliminated. This section will focus on the efforts and developments by reformers, organizations and candidates, to open ballot access beyond the current two-party domination.
In 2012, at least fifty bona fide independent candidates have run for the US House and Senate. About twenty of those candidates have already withdrawn or been defeated.
With the 2012 electoral deadlines rapidly approaching, all parties involved are making the final push to register first-time voters. A vast majority of of these voters are entering their freshman.
Cynthia Dill, Angus King, and Charlie Summers trade insults in a series of press releases and campaign ads as the Maine senate race heats up.
The immigrant integration movement is sparking a revolution of naturalized voter initiatives across the US as November 6th draws closer.
US Representative Pete Stark is facing his first serious reelection challenge in years against a fellow Democrat for the redrawn 15th Congressional District. Eric Swalwell hopes to unseat an incumbent.
Third party candidate platforms address many issues important to independent voters that the two major presidential candidates rarely, if ever, address.
Question: Can Internet voting be done securely? While this question seems simple enough, it actually provokes conflicting and complex opinions, and sometimes strong emotions on both sides. There are folks.
