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For the first time in decades, an independent presidential candidate has caught up to one of the two establishment parties in a statewide poll.

The independent reform movement has lost a champion, but his work is sure to live on. Harry Kresky, a renowned election law and civil rights attorney, author, poet, and activist passed away on March 11 at the age of 79. “Can we do it Without knowing how? Without any assurances of success Or even recognition?” - From A Better World, a poem by Harry Kresky, March 2023 Harry is survived by his wife, Cathy Stewart, who he worked with in the pursuit of equal rights for independent voters and can

Photo Credit: Mockup Free / Unsplash Ohio has open partisan primaries that do not require party affiliation as a condition for participation. However, a new bill in the Ohio House of Representatives would change the rules so that the right to vote was conditioned on joining the Republican or Democratic Party. House Bill 437, introduced by Ohio State Reps. Beth Lear and Brian Lorentz does 3 main things: 1. It requires voters to register with the Republican or Democratic Party to vote in the pr

Eight years ago, there was a competition still in play between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton when the California primary rolled around. But, even though the Democratic Party allowed independent votes to be counted toward the selection of convention delegates, then Secretary of State Alex Padilla refused to eliminate the arcane and undemocratic barriers to voting left over from partisan primary rules more than half a century old. ALSO READ: California Court Says It's Ok to Suppress Independ

Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster does not support calls from within his party to close primary elections to registered party members only. He has long pushed back against claims that non-party members will infiltrate the primaries to manipulate outcomes.

The South Carolina Republican presidential primary is scheduled for Saturday, February 24. It's an open primary, meaning any registered state voter can participate as long as they did not vote in the February 3 Democratic presidential primary.

The election day colloquially referred to as Super Tuesday used to mean something. It's an election date traditionally held in early March and is known for hosting the most presidential preference elections on a single day each election cycle. In 2024, Super Tuesday falls on March 5. In most cases, states that will hold presidential preference contests on this date are in the middle of early voting, including the nation's most populous state: California. In total, 16 states will hold president

Photo by Joshua Woroniecki on Unsplash The New Hampshire presidential primaries are scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 23. As it is the first-in-the-nation primary it garners substantial media attention. However, the most unique thing about this year's primary is getting no coverage from mainstream news outlets. A Presidential Primary Without the Incumbent President What many voters outside the Granite State may not know is that President Joe Biden will not be on the Democratic ball

Many voters watching the results from the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday may have noticed that the media only talked about votes on the Republican side. Only GOP results were posted on news websites and on social media.

As the political landscape in the United States gears up for the 2024 presidential election, the media's focus is often on the perceived threats to democracy posed by individual candidates or movements, like the rhetoric around the MAGA crowd and former President Donald Trump, who is treated as the