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Top Virginia Newspapers Endorse Amendment to End Party Control over Political Redistricting
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the latest newspaper to publish an endorsement of a constitutional amendment that would end single-party control over redistricting in Virginia and bring transparency to...
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost h...
A National Database: The Nonpartisan Solution to Police Misconduct
Editor's Note: Please see the corresponding number in the "Notes" for the source of the information.IntroductionNow more than ever, police misconduct has rocketed to the forefront of our national conv...
How We Vote Could Make You Sick, And We Shouldn't Accept That
Voting is a right; This shouldn’t be a controversial statement but it is. The struggle to ensure that every adult United States citizen has the right to vote has been going on since the founding of ou...
Nonpartisan Reformers Offer Good News in a Tumultuous 2020
We know it can be hard to see past all the troubling news coming out of 2020. Yet, even in these trying times, we do have something to celebrate:Reform is WINNING.In the past month, our members broke ...
Does Nebraska Hold The Secret to a Better Democracy?
Nebraska, landlocked deep in America’s heartland, has paradoxically set itself apart as an anomaly in the US political ecosystem -- from the way it allocates presidential electors, to the makeup of it...
New Ad: Florida Must Stop Denying 3.5 Million Citizens the Right to Vote
A group supporting nonpartisan open primaries in Florida recently released a new ad urging voters to vote "Yes" on Amendment 3 in November. Amendment 3 would replace the state's closed partisan p...
Alaskans Could Make History with Top-Four Primary with Ranked Choice Voting
Alaskans have an opportunity to level the playing field in elections, give voters more choice, and end secret money in politics with one vote in November. All they have to do is vote “Yes” on Ballot M...
'Chiafalo' Completes the Coup
The exact opposite of what the Framers originally intended has now been made the Law of the Land. John Jay wrote in Federalist 64 that the virtue of the Electoral College is that it can dampen “the ac...
SCOTUS: Electors' Primary Obligation is to The State and Their Party
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that states may re...