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Major Parties Conduct State-by-State Effort to Limit Voter Participation
There is an ongoing lawsuit attempting to close Montana’s open primary system. This lawsuit is being joined by the Montana Republican Party. State Republicans support closing their primaries beca ...
17 Feb, 2015
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240 U.S. Reps. Sign On to Bill Protecting Private Online Communications
While proposed reforms to government surveillance continue to stall, there are bipartisan efforts currently being made in Congress to protect Americans' online privacy.Authorized in 1986, the Electron ...
16 Feb, 2015
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2015 On Pace to Have Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades
As of February 6, there have been 121 reported cases of the measles in 17 states and Washington, D.C., in 2015 alone. If the measles outbreak continues at this pace, the number of repor ...
11 Feb, 2015
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Rand Paul, Marijuana Legalization, and Winning The Youth Vote
Last week, the Boston Globe reported that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush smoked marijuana as a teenager at prep school. The report resulted in Sen. Rand Paul, a potential presidential rival to ...
02 Feb, 2015
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47 U.S. Representatives Co-Sponsor Bipartisan Industrial Hemp Farming Act
Vote Hemp, a major grassroots hemp advocacy group, on Thursday announced the introduction of complementary bills in the U.S. House and Senate, S. 134 and H.R. 525, titled the "Industrial Hemp Farming ...
22 Jan, 2015
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5 Things About the 2014 Midterms You Likely Missed
Republicans swept the 2014 midterm elections on Tuesday, capturing the Senate and delivering a stinging defeat to Democrats that will likely define the next two years.If the 2010 midterms were a “shel ...
06 Nov, 2014
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In The End, Low Voter Turnout Comes Down to Competitiveness in Elections
No matter what political ideology a voter identifies with, every single election comes down to one thing: voter turnout. If voters don't go to the polls to cast ballots, their party affiliation, or la ...
23 Oct, 2014
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5 Issues That Deeply Divide Republicans and Democrats -- But Really Shouldn't
Problem solving and uncompromising virtues are mutually exclusive, but in politics they lead to a new level of dysfunction. That was a reason why moderate Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, an ...
07 Oct, 2014
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Gay Marriage Rights Extended in 5 States after SCOTUS Rejects Appeals
The Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court on Monday rejected to hear the appeals of 5 states in an effort to keep their bans on same-sex marriage. Marriage rights will immediately ...
06 Oct, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- August 18, 2014
1. Ralph Nader criticizes the use of "spoiler" to describe independent and third-party candidates and how the major parties treat these candidates to maintain their dominance in elections."Remember th ...
18 Aug, 2014
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