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Ranked Choice Voting Gets Positive Review in NYC, Despite Tally Blunder
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. A tallying error by the New York City Board of Elections threw...
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...
Voter Purge or Maintenance: 100,000 Voters to be Removed from Georgia's Rolls
Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher.More than 100,000 Georgians will be removed from the voter rolls this summe...
The Case for Open Primaries in Maryland
Within a year from now, Maryland voters will head to the polls to elect their party candidates for the 2022 elections. While voters from the Democratic, Republican, and other third parties will choose...
Maine Lawmakers Open State Primaries to 400,000 Independent Voters
In a bipartisan vote, the Maine Legislature passed a bill Wednesday that implements a semi-open primary system, which will allow voters registered independent (32% of the registered electorate) to cho...
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...
We Have To Break the Long History of Minority Rule in the US
It has become popular on the Left to ascribe Republicans’ recent attempts to change voting laws as anti-democratic, even potentially criminal. There are those, such as Paul Waldman at the Washin...
HR1/S1 Hypocrisy: Under The Guise of ‘For the People’, Democrats Support Voters Rights, But Suppress Voter Choice
With S1 going to markup before the U.S. Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday, May 11, the inherent hypocrisy behind HR1/S1 - the ‘For the People Act’ must be called out. But it won't happen as part ...
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 eac...
5 News Articles to Read Now That Gerrymandering Efforts Are Underway
Editor's Note: This update originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Now that the Census Bureau has finally announced which states hav...