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1 in 8 Iowans Targeted for Eventual Purge Under New Voting Curbs
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Iowa is already seeing the effects of the year's first Republic...
Too Strong? Too Weak? Or Obsolete? Looking at the Power of Political Parties
Demographics in the American electorate are shifting, the needs and priorities of voters are changing, yet politics in the US hasn't changed much in the last half century. In fact, the only thing tha...
It's Time For Nonpartisan Leadership to Run State Elections
Editor's Note: This piece by Larry Diamond, Kevin Johnson, and Miles Rapoport originally published on The Hill, and has been republished with permission from the authors.Two secretaries of state were...
Independent Voters Aren’t Just Growing, They're Changing American Politics
Just a few weeks after the storming of the Capitol and the impeachment trial, Gallup found for the first time that 50% of voters identify as independents. Registered independent voters are now t...
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...
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...
New Bill Introduced In Oregon Would Make History with STAR Voting
The Equal Vote Coalition announced Monday that a historic new bill has been introduced in the Oregon State House that would establish STAR (Score, Then Automatic Runoff) Voting as the default voting m...
The Youth Vote: Will The Future Be Defined By Party Politics?
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 segment of the voting population -- Generation ...
Improv & Democracy: A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Reigniting Inclusive Political Engagement in America
“It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.” - John CleeseIndependent voters ha...
HR 1 Exacts Partisan Political Advantage in Exchange for Desperately Needed Voting Rights
U.S. democracy is in existential crisis. The country already suffers from unrepresentative winner-take-all, single-seat-district legislative elections, a two-party duopoly, partisan gerrymandering, th...