John Oliver’s redistricting warning is blunt: escalating partisan map wars may win seats now, but it destroys the basic idea that voters choose their representatives.
His campaign website frames the entire race around one premise: that Big Money has corrupted both parties to the point where regular people who play by the rules can no longer afford the lifestyle their parents had
In 2024, D.C. voters overwhelmingly approved ballot initiative 83 to open the city’s taxpayer-funded primary elections, with 73% of voters voting yes. But New York independent voters remained locked out in their state despite funding the elections.
We sit down with Jeremy, Senior VP of Open Primaries, to dig into a new IVP/Open Primaries poll of registered NYC Democrats - and what it reveals is wild.
A new SurveyUSA poll finds overwhelming majorities of DC voters say ranked choice voting was easy, support using it, and want independents included in taxpayer-funded primaries.
Undoing Top Two means telling 6.9 million independent voters they may no longer participate in primary elections unless they sign up with a club they have already decided not to join.
New York, Maryland, and Utah are holding publicly funded primaries today—but the voters who refuse to join a party remain locked outside the contests that often decide who governs them.
Shawn Griffiths
Cara Brown McCormick
Chad Peace
Matt Shinners
Jeremy Gruber
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