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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...
California Needs a Party That Stands for Common Sense
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us.The Common Sense Party, a new political party being formed in California, stands for fiscal responsibility,...
Fact Check: Can Mail-In Ballots Be Sent to the Wrong Address?
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Absentee voting refers to when a voter requests a ballot for an e...
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...
3 More States Expand Access to Absentee Voting
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Proponents of expanded voting by mail during the pandemic won vi...
Moves in three states to avoid another Wisconsin, even as Sanders bows out
Originally published on The Fulcrum.Bernie Sanders ending his campaign, obviating the need for more Democratic presidential primaries, is the biggest news of the week about keeping democracy safe duri...
Here's What Each Candidate Has Spent Per Vote in The Democratic Primary
With a lot of primary left to go, the Democratic presidential candidates have raised and already spent a small fortune on their White House aspirations.So much for keeping money out of politics, right...
10 States Where Party Planners Can Host (and Avoid) Representative Primaries
Illinois should host the first presidential primaries if the goal is to pick a state that most closely matches the demographics of the country.And Vermont, the home state of Democratic front-runner Be...
Poor Bernie
Poor Bernie Sanders. It’s not enough that he had the balls to challenge The Anointed One in the Democratic Party primary in 2016. It’s not enough that in doing so he split open a divide in his party t...
Will New England States Bolster Ranked Choice Voting in 2019?
MONTPELIER, VT. - New legislation is slated to be introduced in the Vermont legislature that would implement ranked choice voting for the state's elections. Vermont is one of several states that could...