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Voters Have A Right to Choose The Election System They Want
In the latest episode of Toppling the Duopoly, host Shawn Griffiths and his guests discuss a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the will of the people in Alaska, who approved a comprehensive reform ...
09 Apr, 2021
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1 min read
Partisan Insiders Attempt to Rob Alaskans of Political Reforms They Voted For
Alaskans for Better Elections, along with Alaska’s Division of Elections, have filed for summary judgment in a lawsuit to overturn the historic election reform a majority of voters approved in Novembe ...
05 Apr, 2021
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3 min read
Maine Voters Deserve More Freedom: Support Nonpartisan Open Primaries!
Editor's Note: The following piece was originally published as a "Letter to the Editor" for the Portland Press Herald and has been republiched on IVN by request and with permission from the autho ...
05 Apr, 2021
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1 min read
Report: Voters Largely Denied A Meaningful Say In Most Congressional Elections
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Despite record-high turnout in last year's general election, a n ...
30 Mar, 2021
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3 min read
The Youth Vote: Will The Future Be Defined By Party Politics?
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The general perception of young voters is that they are largely detached from politics and thus have no interest and don’t participate. Yet, the largest s ...
25 Mar, 2021
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13 min read
Virtual Magic Show to Introduce Ranked Choice Voting to San Diego
When representatives from the League of Women Voters, RepresentUs, and the Independent Voter Project first met in 2019, political insiders said it would take a miracle to bring an innovative election ...
17 Mar, 2021
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2 min read
Who Will Lead The New Party Movement?
Americans want options. They don't want to have to pick just between Coke and Pepsi. They don’t just want to have to pick between McDonald’s and Burger King. And, in higher numbers than at any other p ...
12 Mar, 2021
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15 min read
Report: Partisan-Driven Voter Suppression Getting Worse with Rise of Independent Voters
Independent voters are on the verge of being at least the second largest voting bloc in nearly all states that register voters by party. This is the findings of a report the Open Primaries Education F ...
25 Feb, 2021
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6 min read
Joe Biden Can't Bring Voters Together, But There's One Reform That Can
There are a number of nonpartisan reforms being proposed to address the myriad of deep systemic problems that ensure US elections primarily serve the private, gain-seeking interests of the Republican ...
29 Jan, 2021
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22 min read
Joe Biden Can't Bring Voters Together, But There's One Reform That Can
Ranked choice voting, or the ability to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference instead of simply choosing one, has been adopted and/or implemented in 21 cities and 2 states, representing a total voting age population of over 9.2 million people.
29 Jan, 2021
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22 min read