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PBS Educates Voters Nationwide on Restrictive Voting Laws with 'Ballot Watch'
The 2014 midterm elections are less than a month away and the GOP is poised to seize a majority in the Senate, though that would require winning some close races. Some are expected to come down to jus ...
09 Oct, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- August 15, 2014
1. The Open Primary Initiative in Oregon has raised over $1 million."Despite the donations, the measure faces stiff opposition. “Both parties have come out against it,” Henderson said."The initia ...
15 Aug, 2014
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Finding Common Ground: How to Fix our Broken Political System
Most Americans have come to see our political system as highly dysfunctional.An October 2013 Gallup poll shows that 60 percent of Americans do not feel well-represented by either major party and favor ...
13 Aug, 2014
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Why Oregon Voters Should Support The Top-Two Primary Initiative
This fall, Oregonians will vote by mail to decide whether Oregon will join its neighbors, California and Washington, and become the third west coast state to pass the top-two primary.As expected, much ...
06 Aug, 2014
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How Do We Define the Political Center on Privacy?
While the U.S. political scene is often described as polarized, many members within the major political parties can agree on one issue: privacy and surveillance. From Democrats like Dianne Feinstein a ...
04 Aug, 2014
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2 States, D.C. to Let Voters Decide Fate of Marijuana Legalization
A plume is haunting America -- the plume of legal marijuana. The November ballots of two states, Oregon and Alaska, and the District of Columbia will include initiatives to legalize recreational marij ...
31 Jul, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- July 30, 2014
1. State director for Oregon's Working Families Party explains why his organization endorsed the state's top-two primary initiative."As a minor political party we understand as intimately as anyone th ...
30 Jul, 2014
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A Brief Overview of the American Voting System
...measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. --James Madison, ...
30 Jul, 2014
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Does All-Mail Voting Have an Impact on Voter Turnout?
Three states -- Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state -- have all-mail voting systems in place, but if recent history is any guide, they will soon be joined by other states like California, Arizona, ...
25 Jul, 2014
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American Party Candidate Jill Bossi Pushes Term Limits in S.C. Senate Race
In the 2014 U.S. Senate race in South Carolina, most of the focus seems to be on Senator Tim Scott's campaign to not only be the first black senator to serve South Carolina in the Senate, but the firs ...
24 Jul, 2014
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