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A National Database: The Nonpartisan Solution to Police Misconduct
Editor's Note: Please see the corresponding number in the "Notes" for the source of the information.IntroductionNow more than ever, police misconduct has rocketed to the forefront of our national conv ...
24 Jul, 2020
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12 min read
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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3 min read
Nonpartisan Reformers Offer Good News in a Tumultuous 2020
We know it can be hard to see past all the troubling news coming out of 2020. Yet, even in these trying times, we do have something to celebrate:Reform is WINNING.In the past month, our members broke ...
16 Jul, 2020
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4 min read
Does Nebraska Hold The Secret to a Better Democracy?
Nebraska, landlocked deep in America’s heartland, has paradoxically set itself apart as an anomaly in the US political ecosystem -- from the way it allocates presidential electors, to the makeup of it ...
16 Jul, 2020
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5 min read
New Ad: Florida Must Stop Denying 3.5 Million Citizens the Right to Vote
A group supporting nonpartisan open primaries in Florida recently released a new ad urging voters to vote "Yes" on Amendment 3 in November. Amendment 3 would replace the state's closed partisan p ...
13 Jul, 2020
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Alaskans Could Make History with Top-Four Primary with Ranked Choice Voting
Alaskans have an opportunity to level the playing field in elections, give voters more choice, and end secret money in politics with one vote in November. All they have to do is vote “Yes” on Ballot M ...
08 Jul, 2020
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3 min read
'Chiafalo' Completes the Coup
The exact opposite of what the Framers originally intended has now been made the Law of the Land. John Jay wrote in Federalist 64 that the virtue of the Electoral College is that it can dampen “the ac ...
07 Jul, 2020
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2 min read
SCOTUS: Electors' Primary Obligation is to The State and Their Party
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that states may re ...
06 Jul, 2020
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2 min read
Closed Primaries: The Parties' Most Effective Tool to Control (And Suppress) The Vote
2020 is already a year to remember – a world-wide pandemic, militant Black-led protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer, and a presidential election. It is ...
06 Jul, 2020
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5 min read
The Constitution: Not As Easy As It Looks
There is a good deal of mention of the Constitution on social media these days; frequently, in short, declarative sentences that express with certainty what the document means. Oftentimes these commen ...
03 Jul, 2020
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6 min read