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More Choice; Less Division: New Reform Campaign Launches in San Diego
More Choice; Less Division: New Reform Campaign Launches in San Diego
Reformers in California face a monumental challenge: Can a large coalition of diverse and sometimes opposing perspectives on the most important way to improve elections put their differences aside and ...
09 Nov, 2021
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4 min read
Ranked Choice Voting Had Another Historic Election
Ranked Choice Voting Had Another Historic Election
The momentum powering the ranked choice voting movement doesn’t appear to be slowing down. Along with being used in a record number of cities in 2021, voters in 3 additional cities approved its use in ...
03 Nov, 2021
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2 min read
Statewide Coalition Launches to Bring Ranked Choice Voting to California
Statewide Coalition Launches to Bring Ranked Choice Voting to California
Could ranked choice voting soon come to the nation’s most populous state? That is the goal of a new coalition that officially launched on Tuesday, September 21.The California RCV Coalition introduced ...
22 Sep, 2021
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4 min read
The Media Has To Stop Worshipping A Partisan-Controlled Elections Process
The Media Has To Stop Worshipping A Partisan-Controlled Elections Process
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in the Portland Press Herald and has been republished on IVN by request and with permission from the author. ‍Greg Kesich’s July 25 column in the Por ...
24 Aug, 2021
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3 min read
California: A Voting Rights Catalyst or Dinosaur?
California: A Voting Rights Catalyst or Dinosaur?
Depending on what news station you watch, you might think that one party is the savior and the other, the enemy, of our sacred right to vote. But what if a larger battle is being waged to secure ...
22 Jul, 2021
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9 min read
As We Move Toward Normalcy, We Must Continue Prioritizing Workers
As We Move Toward Normalcy, We Must Continue Prioritizing Workers
After more than a year of economic suffering that has left millions of Americans reeling from the devastating effects of unemployment, the end finally appears to be in sight. While the upward trends t ...
01 Jul, 2021
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3 min read
Thanks To Ranked Choice Voting, A NYC Mayoral Candidate Won't Win with 32% of the Vote
Thanks To Ranked Choice Voting, A NYC Mayoral Candidate Won't Win with 32% of the Vote
Voters in New York City won't know who won Tuesday's hotly contested Democratic mayoral primary just yet. Voters went to the polls to rank for the first time their preferences in a large field of viab ...
23 Jun, 2021
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5 min read
PBS Film Digs Deep Into The Rise of the 'Democracy Rebellion'
PBS Film Digs Deep Into The Rise of the 'Democracy Rebellion'
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - The most important story not being told by the mainstream press today is the many movements that have emerged to give voters an electoral system that is truly “of, by, and for” the ...
07 Jun, 2021
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Bill To Give Parties Control over Congressional Primaries in Louisiana Dropped
Bill To Give Parties Control over Congressional Primaries in Louisiana Dropped
The movement to take control of primaries out of the hands of political parties is growing. However, nonpartisan primary systems are only in place in a few states, and the only nonpartisan system in t ...
05 May, 2021
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3 min read
Political Parties Should Be Players in Our Politics, Not The Rule Makers
Political Parties Should Be Players in Our Politics, Not The Rule Makers
We all know the system is broken. It’s rigged. It does not work. How do we know? Because our leaders are not producing solutions to the issues we care about. No one is listening, just talking past e ...
05 May, 2021
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5 min read