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Will White House Respond to Calls for Nonpartisan Primaries?
Gerrymandering. Acrimonious partisan rhetoric. High-dollar campaign financing. Systematic barriers to full participation by minor political parties. Bipartisan support for international trade agreemen...
Net Neutrality is Not a Win for Either Party; It Is a Win for Internet Users
Many Republicans are up in arms.The FCC has officially classified the Internet as a telecommunications utility, a major step toward ensuring net neutrality. The whole concept of net neutrality — or ru...
What America Should and Shouldn't Do to Implement Proportional Representation
NATIONAL -- There is no doubt that there are some IVN readers who support some form of proportional representation, often seen as a voting scheme that maximizes representation and makes every vote cou...
Rand Paul Considers Adding Audit the Fed Bill to Debt Ceiling Increase
The Hill reported Thursday that U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) may attach his Audit the Fed bill to the debt ceiling increase, which could come as early as March. One way or another, Paul expects...
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...
Speaker Boehner: Senate Dems Need To 'Get off their Ass and Do Something'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRAYXRio8QU.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) says House Republicans have won the fight over DHS funding and ending the president's executive actions on ille...
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...
Top-Two Election Reform Will Not Boost Voter Participation -- On Its Own
On Friday, February 6, the Cook Political Report published an article on the impact the nonpartisan, top-two primary and independent redistricting have had on voter turnout. The author, Amy Walter, po...
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 ...
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 ...