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Nearly 20 States Have Restricted Private Funding of Elections
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.In 2020, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscil ...
25 May, 2022
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Meet The Honorees of the 20th Annual Anti-Corruption Awards
Independent voters are having a moment. The pro-voter reform movement is having a moment. And, the nonpartisan group Independent Voting is hosting a virtual event to celebrate this moment.On October 2 ...
12 Oct, 2021
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No Order in the Court
On September 6, 2021, Alan Braid, a seventy-six-year-old OBGYN in San Antonio, Texas, performed an abortion on a woman in her first trimester. A few years ago, this procedure would have attracted litt ...
22 Sep, 2021
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Report: A Third of the Country Has Limited Voting Access Since 2020 Elections
Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.More than halfway into the year, and with most state legislativ ...
22 Jul, 2021
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The 7 Most Difficult States to Cast a Ballot before Election Day
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Nearly every state legislature is considering bills to either ...
14 Apr, 2021
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10 Ways Joe Biden Is Just Like Donald Trump
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Forever, and ever, and ever...
17 Mar, 2021
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10 Ways Joe Biden Is Just Like Donald Trump
2020 was a weird year. Can we all agree on that?Here’s something weird about 2020 that you may not have noticed amid all the shouting and freaking out: Democrats nominated and successfully fielded a p ...
17 Mar, 2021
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The Perils of Extreme Minority Rule on Display in Kansas Amendment Fight
“Our frustration as a group, as mostly unaffiliated voters or voters who only affiliate with a party because we have to in order to fully participate in Kansas elections, we feel like we should not h ...
21 Jan, 2021
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The Perils of Extreme Minority Rule on Display in Kansas Amendment Fight
A group of Kansas lawmakers are proposing a monumental change to their state constitution -- an amendment that by law would have to go before voters if approved by the legislature. Advocates of it though want to put it on the ballot when the least number of voters participate.
21 Jan, 2021
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Kansas Legislators Propose Constitutional Vote That Would Disenfranchise Voters
On Friday, the Kansas Legislature will vote to amend the Kansas Constitution. A constitutional amendment must be approved by 2/3 of Kansas state legislators and then put before “the electors,” meaning Kansas voters. Yet advocates are looking at thee state's closed primaries.
14 Jan, 2021
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