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White House, States Fight over Your Personal Voter Data
White House, States Fight over Your Personal Voter Data
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who serves as vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity, sent a letter to every secretary of state in the US this week asking them ...
30 Jun, 2017
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A Bipartisan No: Governors Say Healthcare Reform Needs Work
A Bipartisan No: Governors Say Healthcare Reform Needs Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ei68aCWupY&t=0m27sThe efforts by a group of Senate Republicans to craft the repeal of Obamacare has come up woefully short, and it not acceptable. So say a group of ...
28 Jun, 2017
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Efficiency Gap: The Greatest Weapon to Fight Partisan Gerrymandering
Efficiency Gap: The Greatest Weapon to Fight Partisan Gerrymandering
The fight against gerrymandering nationwide is taking a new turn. Courts are no longer just looking at discrimination based on race, sex, or class, but political discrimination and partisan motives to ...
26 Jun, 2017
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5 Things You Missed This Week In Nonpartisan Election News
5 Things You Missed This Week In Nonpartisan Election News
From the media blackout of a DNC lawsuit to open primaries to term limits and more, here are 5 things you may have missed in nonpartisan political and election news.1. Media Blackout of DNC ...
19 May, 2017
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Colorado One Step Closer to Implementing Open Primaries
Colorado One Step Closer to Implementing Open Primaries
On Monday, the Colorado State Senate approved SB 305, a bill that guides the secretary of state on how to write the rules for the state's open primary system, approved by voters under Propos ...
09 May, 2017
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Congress Effectively Legalizes Medical Marijuana at the Federal Level
Congress Effectively Legalizes Medical Marijuana at the Federal Level
Last week, Congress avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded for another week.Then over the weekend, US lawmakers agreed to a deal tha ...
04 May, 2017
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Debriefing Democracy: 5 Takeaways in Nonpartisan News This Week
Debriefing Democracy: 5 Takeaways in Nonpartisan News This Week
From the ongoing legal battle against the Commission on Presidential Debates to taking nonpartisan election reform to the nation's largest battleground state, here are 5 key stories on election and po ...
21 Apr, 2017
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GOP Chairman Candidate Doesn’t Understand Law, Facts He Uses To Argue Against Open Primaries
GOP Chairman Candidate Doesn’t Understand Law, Facts He Uses To Argue Against Open Primaries
In November of last year, voters in Colorado passed two election reform measures aimed at their June elections. Proposition 107 established presidential primaries in Colorado (previously the state had ...
29 Mar, 2017
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IVN Podcast: Libertarian Party Chair Talks Core Principles and Current Issues
IVN Podcast: Libertarian Party Chair Talks Core Principles and Current Issues
This week meet the party whose mantra is “good ideas don’t have to be mandatory.”Host T.J. O’Hara is joined by the Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark. The two discuss the Libertaria ...
15 Mar, 2017
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Former Sen. Gary Hart Has Dire Warnings About Future of US Foreign Policy
Former Sen. Gary Hart Has Dire Warnings About Future of US Foreign Policy
Former Senator Gary Hart, who co-chaired the United States Commission on National Security, spoke last Friday at a luncheon of The Denver Forum.Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, in introducing the ...
14 Mar, 2017
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