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Want to Vote By Mail? Anti-Corruption Group Launches Resource to Counter Disinformation and Confusion
FLORENCE, MASS. - Elections officials in the US are expecting a surge in absentee votes in the 2020 election as the US continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. To provide voters with the resource ...
13 Aug, 2020
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These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost h ...
03 Aug, 2020
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How We Vote Could Make You Sick, And We Shouldn't Accept That
Voting is a right; This shouldn’t be a controversial statement but it is. The struggle to ensure that every adult United States citizen has the right to vote has been going on since the founding of ou ...
20 Jul, 2020
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Fresh lawsuits challenge vote-by-mail limits in four Southern states
This article was first published on The FulcrumUpdated Monday afternoon to describe four, not three, lawsuits.Expanding voters' access to absentee ballots across the South during the coronavirus pande ...
05 May, 2020
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Kentucky latest to expand mail voting in response to pandemic
Originally published on The Fulcrum.All Kentuckians will get the chance to vote by mail in the June 23 primary under a deal worked out between Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, and Secretary of State Mic ...
28 Apr, 2020
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Sanders Criticizes California for Denying Independent Voters the Right to Vote
All the momentum in the 2020 Democratic presidential race appears to be behind US Senator Bernie Sanders after another victory in Nevada over the weekend. Now, headed into the most consequential Super ...
26 Feb, 2020
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A Presidential Primary for Independents in 2020?
It is no secret that both parties control the presidential nomination process.But what is less-known is that taxpayers, not the parties, fund the primary election.So, why wouldn’t every voter, regardl ...
11 Apr, 2019
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2019 Unrig Summit Celebrates Historic Victories Over Two-Party Duopoly
A Roadmap to A Better DemocracyBy: Wes MessamoreReform activists from around the country gathered in the Country Music Capital of the World –– Nashville, Tennessee –– over the last weekend in March to ...
08 Apr, 2019
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It's Okay to Be Really Good At Selling Coffee
At Splinter News David Boddiger writes:"Howard Schultz finally has his big campaign rallying cry."He's referring to a chant raised by a few loud attendees at the Unrig Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, ...
02 Apr, 2019
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10 Nonpartisan Organizations to Watch in 2020
There are hundreds, literally hundreds of organizations and individual campaigns working right now to fix the myriad of problems that face our political and electoral processes -- from the local to th ...
15 Mar, 2019
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