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Voter Suppression: How Politicians Are At War With Your Vote
Voter Suppression: How Politicians Are At War With Your Vote
Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from voting and is different from political campaigning.Campaigning attempts to change ...
09 May, 2018
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Profile: Why Independent Senate Candidate Neal Simon Can't Stand Partisanship
Profile: Why Independent Senate Candidate Neal Simon Can't Stand Partisanship
Neal Simon is running for United States Senate. The successful businessman is an affirmed independent, and he is competing in bright blue Maryland against incumbent Democratic Senator Ben Cardin as Ca ...
08 May, 2018
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14 min read
Ohio: The Next State to End Gerrymandering?
Ohio: The Next State to End Gerrymandering?
Update 5/9/18: Issue 1 -- Ohio redistricting reform -- passed with three-fourths voter support, 74.9% voting "Yes."Update 5/8/18, 8:57 PM ET: Election results in Ohio point to overwhelming victory for ...
07 May, 2018
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4 min read
Pennsylvania: The Wretched Face of Gerrymandering
Pennsylvania: The Wretched Face of Gerrymandering
Another election season, another increasingly bizarre redrawing of the electoral map. In states across the U.S., voting districts are elongated and chopped, stretched like taffy to cover certain state ...
01 May, 2018
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4 min read
New Survey: Americans Agree These Reforms Are Needed to End Two-Party Control
New Survey: Americans Agree These Reforms Are Needed to End Two-Party Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9Ir0B5uGEAt a briefing on Capitol Hill, the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation presented new public opinion data that shows American v ...
26 Apr, 2018
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Young, Scrappy, and Hungry: More Independents Take On Two-Party Duopoly
Young, Scrappy, and Hungry: More Independents Take On Two-Party Duopoly
Welcome to our weekly post, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves independent candidates and organizations made over the past week.Nathan Altman, a 30-year old “scrappy en ...
23 Apr, 2018
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3 min read
Independent Senate Candidate: Two-Party Politics An "Injustice to America"
Independent Senate Candidate: Two-Party Politics An "Injustice to America"
The track record for winning an election as an independent is far from good. However, Neal Simon of Maryland hopes to strengthen those numbers come November. We sat down with the U.S. Senate candidate ...
03 Apr, 2018
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16 min read
Supreme Court Rules in PA Gerrymandering Case
Supreme Court Rules in PA Gerrymandering Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqyYokJ97cVideo Source: CBS NewsThe Supreme Court turned down a request by Republican state lawmakers Monday to prevent Pennsylvania’s new congressional map from being ...
20 Mar, 2018
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Unite America Director: History Will Be Made In November
Unite America Director: History Will Be Made In November
We are only three months into 2018, but already big things are happening within the independent movement -- especially in Colorado.Unite America (formerly the Centrist Project) recently launched with ...
13 Mar, 2018
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6 min read
New Political Movement Aims to Unite America with National Slate of Independent Candidates
New Political Movement Aims to Unite America with National Slate of Independent Candidates
Unite America, formerly the Centrist Project, announced Tuesday a historic national slate of independent candidates running for governor and US Senate.The 5 candidates on the slate include: Incumbent ...
27 Feb, 2018
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1 min read