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HR1/S1 Hypocrisy: Under The Guise of ‘For the People’, Democrats Support Voters Rights, But Suppress Voter Choice
With S1 going to markup before the U.S. Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday, May 11, the inherent hypocrisy behind HR1/S1 - the ‘For the People Act’ must be called out. But it won't happen as part ...
11 May, 2021
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6 min read
Political Parties Should Be Players in Our Politics, Not The Rule Makers
We all know the system is broken. It’s rigged. It does not work. How do we know? Because our leaders are not producing solutions to the issues we care about. No one is listening, just talking past eac ...
05 May, 2021
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5 min read
5 News Articles to Read Now That Gerrymandering Efforts Are Underway
Editor's Note: This update originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Now that the Census Bureau has finally announced which states hav ...
04 May, 2021
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1 min read
1 in 8 Iowans Targeted for Eventual Purge Under New Voting Curbs
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Iowa is already seeing the effects of the year's first Republic ...
29 Apr, 2021
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2 min read
Too Strong? Too Weak? Or Obsolete? Looking at the Power of Political Parties
Demographics in the American electorate are shifting, the needs and priorities of voters are changing, yet politics in the US hasn't changed much in the last half century. In fact, the only thing tha ...
14 Apr, 2021
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10 min read
It's Time For Nonpartisan Leadership to Run State Elections
Editor's Note: This piece by Larry Diamond, Kevin Johnson, and Miles Rapoport originally published on The Hill, and has been republished with permission from the authors.Two secretaries of state were ...
06 Apr, 2021
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5 min read
Independent Voters Aren’t Just Growing, They're Changing American Politics
Just a few weeks after the storming of the Capitol and the impeachment trial, Gallup found for the first time that 50% of voters identify as independents. Registered independent voters are now t ...
06 Apr, 2021
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4 min read
Partisan Insiders Attempt to Rob Alaskans of Political Reforms They Voted For
Alaskans for Better Elections, along with Alaska’s Division of Elections, have filed for summary judgment in a lawsuit to overturn the historic election reform a majority of voters approved in Novembe ...
05 Apr, 2021
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3 min read
Maine Voters Deserve More Freedom: Support Nonpartisan Open Primaries!
Editor's Note: The following piece was originally published as a "Letter to the Editor" for the Portland Press Herald and has been republiched on IVN by request and with permission from the autho ...
05 Apr, 2021
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1 min read
New Bill Introduced In Oregon Would Make History with STAR Voting
The Equal Vote Coalition announced Monday that a historic new bill has been introduced in the Oregon State House that would establish STAR (Score, Then Automatic Runoff) Voting as the default voting m ...
30 Mar, 2021
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2 min read