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On Monday, March 12 at 8 pm ET, hundreds of people will dial into Independent Voting’s national conference call. Jackie Salit, president of Independent Voting, hosts these calls, and I wanted to exten ...

In the study of migration patterns, scholars often times point to different “push” and “pull” factors that have influenced migration trends over time.Historically, the free market structure of the Uni ...

For me, history, the study of it and the making of it, has been an essential part of life.Growing up in the underground of the poor black community, reading became my salvation, and reading ...

The fourth estate is a term you used to hear more often in reference to American politics. These days, it has to be explained. It's not a hard concept. The media takes responsibility for sharing objec ...

Virginia Independent Voters Association Director Steve Richardson wrote an op-ed in The Virginian-Pilot Thursday in support of a new bill that would reform state primaries to a nonpartisan, top-two op ...

Update: The Senate voted Monday to reopen the government, and extend funding until February 8, setting up yet another potential shutdown fight. The recent government shutdown is only the latest m ...

With the new year, begins a new legislative session. Legislators have the opportunity to use this time to introduce bills to empower voters in their state. Ranked choice voting (RCV) continues to expa ...

Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul is no stranger to election reform. He has championed a number of legislative efforts to improve elections in the past, and has introduced a new package of election reforms ...

American voters who have remained in the two-party system are more partisan than ever before and they're saying so in public opinion polls every year:"Surveys over time have used a 100-point thermomet ...

It’s been a dramatic week in the race to fill the 94th District seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. After the initial tabulation from the Nov. 7 election, incumbent David Yancy (R) led challenger S ...