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New: Georgia To Keep Unsafe Voting Machines for Midterms
A federal district court judge has decided that Georgia will not switch to paper ballots this year and will instead keep its electronic voting system. Judge Amy Totenberg took state election officials ...
18 Sep, 2018
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New Research: Even Computers Can't Remove Human Bias from Redistricting
We let computers to determine our Facebook feeds and drive our cars. Why not let technology replace the political and personal interests of people when it comes to drawing district lines?In a recent c ...
17 Sep, 2018
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4 States to Vote on Ending Partisan Gerrymandering in November
A central element of this remarkable year in election reform has been the pivot of the anti-gerrymandering fight from the courts to the ballot boxes. As has been widely reported, five states vote this ...
14 Sep, 2018
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Unrigging The System: How Voters Can Reclaim Their Power This November
Political reformers across America are paying close attention to key elections on November 6. But their focus is not on candidates or political parties. It’s about how Americans vote on ballot measure ...
12 Sep, 2018
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Power to the People: 9 Wins (And Counting) in 2018 to Unrig the System
In the current political environment, the perception is that there is much that divides Americans. Yet there is one important thing that unites most people across the political spectrum: the idea that ...
11 Sep, 2018
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Party Insiders, Lobbyists Sue to Get Anti-Corruption Measure off Missouri Ballot
There is a proposed constitutional amendment that is slated to be on the November ballot in Missouri aimed at eliminating corruption, creating a more transparent legislative process, and ending partis ...
30 Aug, 2018
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Secretary of State: There Is No "Paper-Ballot Fairy"
It has been a long hot summer in the war of the paper ballots in Georgia. The Secretary of State Brian Kemp is set to face off with plaintiffs on September 12th in oral arguments over a lawsuit accusi ...
28 Aug, 2018
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A Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Voice of a People, The Soul of a Movement
Updated on Thursday, August 23, 2018 Aretha Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942, two years later her family moved to Buffalo, New York and from there to Detroit, Michigan wh ...
17 Aug, 2018
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The Summer of Our Discontent
Lately, I’ve been glued to my laptop watching CNN news clips from 1999, when Donald Trump was weighing a possible presidential run in the Reform Party. “Everybody wants me to run for President …” he t ...
15 Aug, 2018
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Students Invent Gerrymander Board Game And It's Taking Off
Three siblings from Austin, Texas are set to make cash off of gerrymandering. No, they're not running for office; they're creating a board game called Mapmaker that educates people about the very ...
14 Aug, 2018
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