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Bill That Enfranchises Over 350,000 Independent Voters In Maine Becomes Law
A third of Maine’s electorate will have an opportunity for meaningful participation in taxpayer-funded elections. Governor Janet Mills allowed a bill to go into law Monday that creates a semi-open pri ...
10 May, 2022
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New Survey Shows Overwhelming Favorability for Ranked Choice Voting in Federal Elections
A new survey from the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC) shows that most Americans favor using ranked choice voting in federal elections with three or more candidates. ...
20 Apr, 2022
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3 min read
Young People Overwhelmingly Do Not Trust the Government
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Millennials and members of Generation Z have little faith in an ...
14 Apr, 2022
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3 min read
New Bill Calls For Fairer Elections in California Recall Process
California voters could soon see major systemic changes made to the state’s recall process for governor. A new bill introduced in the California Legislature would change how candidates qualify for the ...
05 Apr, 2022
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Oregon's Largest Voting Group is Barred from Taxpayer-Funded Elections
Voters registered as “Non-Affiliated” in Oregon now outnumber registered Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest voter registration data. Yet, despite being the largest voting group, these ...
28 Mar, 2022
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3 min read
Believe It or Not, Some CA Dems and FL Republicans Agree on Something: Banning Ranked Choice Voting
It doesn’t seem like there is much these days that can unite Republicans and Democrats. However, one thing both parties have consistently agreed on is that nothing should threaten their grip on power. ...
10 Mar, 2022
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14 min read
Deconstructing Nonpartisan Reform with NANR’s Exec. Director
Andy Moore, Executive Director of the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers (NANR), joins host T. J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to discuss that organization’s progress toward attaining nonpartisa ...
23 Feb, 2022
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Tennessee General Assembly Votes to Ban Ranked Choice Voting
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Alternative voting systems have been making inroads across the ...
15 Feb, 2022
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3 min read
Your Big-Tech Dystopian Nightmare Has Arrived! (Investigative Journalist Geoff Cain Interview)
(Interview Begins at 15:30)Geoff Cain's new book, The Perfect Police State, details how the Chinese Communist Party is already operating a high-tech system in the Xinjiang region able to congeal all t ...
15 Feb, 2022
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Andrew Yang: You Should Be Allowed to Vote, Regardless of Your Party
Andrew Yang was the guest of a special virtual event Wednesday hosted by Open Primaries and IndependentVoting.org’s Politics for the People book club. Yang is a former Democratic presidential candidat ...
13 Jan, 2022
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