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Could Ranked Choice Voting Help Save the Parties from Themselves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwyVJ_-q0mE&feature=youtu.beVideo Source: Rebel HQWhen it comes to electoral reform right now, there is no hotter topic -- arguably -- than ranked choice voting (RC ...
18 Jul, 2018
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SF Gives Ballot Access To Non-Citizens, First In The State
San Francisco, CA. - San Francisco is now the first city in California to allow non-citizens to vote in elections.In the November 2016 election, San Francisco voters passed Proposition N, the Non-Citi ...
17 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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Will Massachusetts Soon Follow Maine in Adopting Ranked Choice Voting?
Ranked choice voting has grown significantly in popularity since the battle between voters and politicians in Maine caught the attention of national media outlets. Now, there are a number of states th ...
02 Jul, 2018
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Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld Endorses Kevin McCormick, Candidate for AZ Governor
Former Republican Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld has endorsed Libertarian Kevin McCormick for Governor of Arizona.The announcement comes as McCormick is on the campaign trail, driving home his me ...
22 May, 2018
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Tornado Watch in Kansas
Last week I traveled to Kansas for an appearance at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. Nestled in the hills of Lawrence (seemingly the only hills in this flattest of ...
09 May, 2018
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Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld Wants to Help The Libertarian Party Win in 2020
In 2016 the Libertarian Party enjoyed 50-state ballot access for the first time since 1996, and polled higher than any third party had since Ross Perot took the 1992 presidential election by storm on ...
04 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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"Hollywood for Ugly People": Independent Candidate Gets Candid About DC Corruption
"Hollywood for ugly people."It is not a phrase coined by Michigan independent congressional candidate Cooper Nye. However, Nye says he can see why some people have come to view Washington, DC thi ...
23 Apr, 2018
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"Fix Politics Now": New Campaign Draws Hundreds of Politicians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgBDGHGJSEkTransparency, integrity, and accountability. Three words that currently cannot be used to describe elections and the political system in the US. However, a n ...
15 Mar, 2018
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