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Introducing The Public Primary: Protecting the Rights of Voters While Giving Them More Choices
FairVote believes that every vote should matter and be heard in every public election. The fundamental goal of any primary election system should be to help foster a general election that wi...
Prediction: Trump Will Pick New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez for VP
With 19 wins and well over 700 delegates under his belt, the race for the Republican presidential nomination is looking good for Donald Trump. Barring a contested convention or maneuvering f...
Why The Greatest Threat To Personal Data May Be Political Campaigns
Running for political office has changed. The name of the game now is voter data. Political campaigns are now nothing more than huge data gathering machines. These campaigns suck up every detail abo...
Discussions About Independent Voters Would Be Improved if Philosophical Principles Were Set Out
Many authors and commenters on IVN clearly believe that it is wrong for any party, or any state law, to prevent independent voters from voting in a government-administered primary for public office. I...
Who Has Endorsed Donald Trump?
Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump is dominating the GOP field right now, despite the fact that few took his candidacy seriously when he launched his campaign last summer. His anti-esta...
Millions of Voters Disenfranchised on Super 'Undemocratic' Tuesday
Super Tuesday (March1) is one of the most heavily covered events in the presidential election process. With over a dozen contests and a quarter of the delegates up for grabs on the Democrati...
Regardless of Party Affiliation, Missouri Voters Hunger for Independent Candidates
The Centrist Project today released the results of an online survey of 1200 likely Missouri voters in the United States Senate election in 2016 that shows 34.5% of voters would support an unnamed inde...
To Discredit the Two-Party System, Vote Your Conscience
In 2004, the esteemed Catholic philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre wrote a popular essay lamenting the lack of voter choice in the impending presidential election. Rather than recommending that voters cast...
Top 10 Political War Chests Being Fueled by 'Big Oil'
The United States consumes more petroleum products than any other country in the world. Hand in hand with this high-octane intake are the heavy subsidies the United States government provides to petro...
Center for Public Integrity Gives 11 States an 'F' in Ethics -- But That's Not The Whole Story
The Center for Public Integrity has evaluated all 50 states and found them lacking on issues of integrity and ethics, giving Alaska the highest grade of "C," while failing 11 other states.Each state w...