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California Elections 2020: Proposition 17 - Voting After Prison
What is Proposition 17?Proposition 17 is a constitutional amendment that would allow people on parole for felony convictions to vote in California.[1]Currently, the California Constitution disqualifie...
Will California Change Policing?
It’s crunch month for California legislators who promised sweeping reforms in response to the police killing of George Floyd and the protests his death unleashed.Yet some social justice advocates doub...
Want to Vote By Mail? Anti-Corruption Group Launches Resource to Counter Disinformation and Confusion
FLORENCE, MASS. - Elections officials in the US are expecting a surge in absentee votes in the 2020 election as the US continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. To provide voters with the resource...
Should the State Investigate Local Police Shootings? California Rethinks its Resistance
If officers shot and killed Sean Monterrosa in Connecticut or New York — instead of in Vallejo, California — a state agency would investigate the June 2 incident, when a police officer reportedly mist...
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...
Former Michigan Gov Calls Mail-In Voter Fraud Claims 'Utter BS'
As the fight continues across the country to expand safe and secure options for voters to participate in the 2020 elections, 5 nonpartisan organizations collaborated to put on a virtual rally to bolst...
Straight-Ticket Voting Won't Return to Texas in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and was republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Straight-ticket voting won't be returning to Texas now that a federal...
Kentucky latest to expand mail voting in response to pandemic
Originally published on The Fulcrum.All Kentuckians will get the chance to vote by mail in the June 23 primary under a deal worked out between Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, and Secretary of State Mic...
Opinion: Ranked Choice Voting Must Be A Part of the Coronavirus Elections Fix
Richie is president and Daley a senior fellow at FairVote, a nonpartisan electoral reform group that promotes ranked-choice voting. This month Daley published "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Bac...
Photo ID law coming to Kentucky while virus shuts many issuing offices
At a time when primary turnout is already taking a hit from the coronavirus, a new photo ID requirement in Kentucky looms as another deterrent from the polls this year.Legislation cleared Thursday by ...