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When Voter Registration Becomes A Barrier to Voting
When Voter Registration Becomes A Barrier to Voting
Earlier this year, Utah and Washington quietly joined 14 other states that have eliminated the use of registration deadlines as a final cutoff to be able to vote. The congruent actions of a red s ...
26 Jul, 2018
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3 min read
Supreme Court Punts on Partisan Gerrymandering Decision
Supreme Court Punts on Partisan Gerrymandering Decision
The Supreme Court refused to weigh in on the issue of partisan gerrymandering in two cases out of Wisconsin (Gill v. Whitford) and Maryland (Benisek v. Lamone). The justices sent Gill v. Whitford back ...
18 Jun, 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
National Week of Conversation: Historic Movement Shatters Partisan Barriers
National Week of Conversation: Historic Movement Shatters Partisan Barriers
Did you participate in the National Week of Conversation?The Bridge Alliance, along with 100 sponsoring organizations, community organizers, elected officials, and more, held hundreds of events -- pub ...
30 Apr, 2018
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8 min read
60 Reasons To Legalize Marijuana
60 Reasons To Legalize Marijuana
1. Liberty - Well a good place to start is so that we can live out our own American values of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by respecting every individual's liberty to make their own cho ...
24 Apr, 2018
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15 min read
Dem. Rep. Scott Peters on Immigration, Qualcomm, and Common Ground with President Trump
Dem. Rep. Scott Peters on Immigration, Qualcomm, and Common Ground with President Trump
IVN San Diego sat down with Democratic Rep. Scott Peters at our studios for a wide-ranging interview that focused on the County Board of Supervisors 3-1 vote on SB-54, the DACA debate where Peters tho ...
24 Apr, 2018
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4 min read
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
The Predicament of Polling
The Predicament of Polling
If 2016 taught me anything, it is how disastrous political polls have become. And as we head into the 2018 midterms, we should take a hard look how we are conducting them, crunching the numbers and us ...
20 Apr, 2018
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6 min read