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Ranked Choice Voting: An Easy Solution to Fix Our Broken Elections
Ranked Choice Voting: An Easy Solution to Fix Our Broken Elections
This piece, written by Rob Richie, originally appeared in Cato Unbound as the lead essay in a series on ranked choice voting in December of 2016.American democracy today is working more poorly than it ...
04 Jan, 2017
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7 min read
The States Likely to Gain and Lose House Seats in 2020
The States Likely to Gain and Lose House Seats in 2020
Recently, Real Clear Politics extrapolated demographic trends to project which states are likely to gain or lose U.S. House seats in the reapportionment that will occur after the 2020 Census ...
03 Jan, 2017
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1 min read
Trump to Adopt Texan Energy Policy
Trump to Adopt Texan Energy Policy
News broke Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump will tap former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the Energy Department, a move that has the mainstream media recalling the 2011 Republican preside ...
13 Dec, 2016
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Debriefing Democracy: Nonpartisan Movements Score Major Victories in November
Debriefing Democracy: Nonpartisan Movements Score Major Victories in November
Keep up with the reform efforts building on the post-election momentum. Big change starts small, and these organizations have been hard at work to fix our broken system, little by little.With so much ...
12 Dec, 2016
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5 min read
Score Runoff Voting: The New Voting Method that Could Save Our Democratic Process
Score Runoff Voting: The New Voting Method that Could Save Our Democratic Process
It’s called Score Runoff Voting, and it’s about to take Oregon by storm.SRV is a relatively new concept from the minds of Mark Frohnmayer, political scion and founder of the Equal Vote Coalition, ...
08 Dec, 2016
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4 min read
Let's All Agree On This: Stop Blocking Traffic for Protests!
Let's All Agree On This: Stop Blocking Traffic for Protests!
There's a lot that American voters may be divided over, but there's one issue that hopefully we can all get together on and embrace a nonpartisan, obvious, and sane position. Demonstrators who have be ...
18 Nov, 2016
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4 min read
Prop. 64: An In-Depth Look at California’s Marijuana Legalization Measure
Prop. 64: An In-Depth Look at California’s Marijuana Legalization Measure
Editor’s note: This article was co-authored by Chris Micheli and Michael Daft. This article was originally self-published by the authors and has been republished on IVN with their consent.&n ...
17 Nov, 2016
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19 min read
How 600,000 People Broke Big Money's Grip On Power
How 600,000 People Broke Big Money's Grip On Power
This election was historic for the movement to break big money’s grip on our political system. On November 8, 2016, voters in South Dakota passed the first-ever statewide Anti-Corruption Act. This bal ...
14 Nov, 2016
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8 States Just Legalized Marijuana for Recreation or Medicinal Purposes
8 States Just Legalized Marijuana for Recreation or Medicinal Purposes
In a watershed electoral victory for drug policy liberalization in the United States, an astounding eight states voted to legalize marijuana for recreational or medicinal purposes Tuesday.That’s an es ...
09 Nov, 2016
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3 min read
Desglosando la Democracia: Movimientos No-Partidistas en el Foco
Desglosando la Democracia: Movimientos No-Partidistas en el Foco
Estamos a menos de una semana del Día de las Elecciones, dando cierre a una contienda presidencial que ha dado a los votantes dos de los candidatos más rechazados y desconfiados en la historia moderna ...
02 Nov, 2016
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7 min read