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Ranked Choice Voting Draws Historic Voter Turnout in 2018 Midterms
The following blog is based on a new FairVote report on ranked choice voting elections in 2018In the first half of 2018, nearly half a million voters ranked their choices in elections ...
12 Jul, 2018
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The State That Defied America's Archaic Electoral Politics with a New Voting System
Democracy advocates recently celebrated a victory in Maine, where voters used ranked-choice voting in their statewide primaries — the first state ever to do so. In that election, voters also approved ...
06 Jul, 2018
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Politics for the People Book Club: 5 Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
I am writing from a spot nestled in the woods in Washington County in rural New York, listening to the chatter of the morning birds and looking forward to a walk along the Battenkill River later today ...
05 Jul, 2018
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IVP & FairVote Call For Top Four Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting
National Election Reform Groups, the Independent Voter Project and FairVote, are advocating for a primary that advances the “top-four” candidates instead of just two.The groups believe doubl ...
13 Jun, 2018
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The Myths, The Facts, The Future: Everything You Need to Know About Ranked Choice Voting
Partisan gerrymandering. Money in politics. The Electoral College. Undue restrictions on who votes and how we vote. Every contentious election issue discussed today was either inherited from 18th-cent ...
11 Jun, 2018
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17 min read
New Mexico: Where Voter Choice Goes to Die?
The headline may sound sensational, but trust me: there is a lot of truth to it.New Mexico held its primary elections on Tuesday, June 5. It is a closed primary state, which means only registered Repu ...
05 Jun, 2018
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May Was A Monumental Month for Independents
It’s been a while! However, no matter how little we’ve written about independent candidates and organizations over the past month, actions continue to be taken by those who look to change the two ...
29 May, 2018
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Independent Revolution Expands to New Mexico with Competitive Slate of Candidates
There is so much history being made in the independent and reform movements in 2018 that it is almost impossible to keep up with it all.Unite New Mexico, a partner of Unite America, announced Thursday ...
24 May, 2018
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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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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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