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Coalition Sues Pennsylvania over Partisan Gerrymandering
Pennsylvania is the latest battleground over the issue of partisan gerrymandering.Several plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging congressional maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Pennsylv ...
16 Jun, 2017
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Nevada Voter Suppression: Democrats Blocking Independent Voter Access
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2013 that struck down pre-clearance requirements from the Voting Rights Act, Republican-controlled state legislatures jumped at the opportunity to i ...
14 Jun, 2017
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Former DNC Official: Hillary Biting the Hand that Fed Her
Former DNC Data Director Andrew Therriault is upset at Hillary Clinton. He believes the former Democratic presidential candidate went too far when she said the party's data was "me ...
01 Jun, 2017
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Gerrymandering: Everything You Need to Know in 60 Seconds
There are several ways the Republican and Democratic Parties manipulate the vote and control elections. They control the narrative, who gets to vote in primary elections, and redraw electoral districts to their favor.
31 May, 2017
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Hold Your Horses: SCOTUS Considers Bigger Gerrymandering Case than North Carolina
Progressive politicians and pundits are collectively celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling that North Carolina illegally used racial gerrymandering to draw its congressional districts. But even autho ...
25 May, 2017
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Study: Wisconsin Voter ID Had Bigger Impact on Election Than You Think
There has been a lot buzz in Washington lately over the new leaks coming out of the Trump administration, as well as the ongoing investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign a ...
23 May, 2017
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Congress Effectively Legalizes Medical Marijuana at the Federal Level
Last week, Congress avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded for another week.Then over the weekend, US lawmakers agreed to a deal tha ...
04 May, 2017
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Debriefing Democracy: 5 Takeaways in Nonpartisan News This Week
From the ongoing legal battle against the Commission on Presidential Debates to taking nonpartisan election reform to the nation's largest battleground state, here are 5 key stories on election and po ...
21 Apr, 2017
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This Book Will Change The Way You Look at Elections in the U.S.
“Are American elections working well?”[...]“All of this said, things could work much better."The first of these two sentences appears in Chapter 1 of Changing How America Votes, edited by Todd Donovan ...
20 Apr, 2017
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Wisconsin Bill Limiting Recounts is Detrimental to Election Integrity
More than a decade after the 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida, the litigation following the 2016 presidential election demonstrated that our electoral system is still not equipped to conf ...
19 Apr, 2017
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