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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 ...
11 Mar, 2016
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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 ...
01 Mar, 2016
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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 ...
01 Mar, 2016
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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 ...
11 Jan, 2016
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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 ...
21 Dec, 2015
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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 ...
02 Dec, 2015
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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 ...
11 Nov, 2015
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Beyond the Echo Chamber: A Roundup of Nonpartisan Election News -- October 7, 2015
The latest headlines on nonpartisan voting rights from across the nation. Enjoy.Young, Independent Voters Denied Full Access to Elections in Pa.Source: John Finnerty, The HeraldMy Take: From a st ...
07 Oct, 2015
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The First Amendment You Know Was Not The One Proposed by the Founders
We all know that the Bill of Rights enshrined in the Constitution contains ten amendments. However, it is less well known that the Bill of Rights sent to the states for ratification originally contain ...
09 Sep, 2015
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One Year Later: 6 Reflections of an Independent Author
I have been writing for IVN since the summer of 2014. Though my academic background is in political science, I can confidently say I have learned more about American politics in this one year ...
03 Sep, 2015
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