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How Do I Vote? Everything You Need to Know by State
Table of Contents State-by-state Information How Do Primaries Work? Partisan v. Nonpartisan Closed (Partisan) Semi-Closed (Partisan) Open (Partisan) Open (Nonpartisan) Variants of Traditional Election ...
17 Jan, 2014
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22 min read
Obama to Reform NSA Spying Programs
On Friday, President Obama spoke before the Department of Justice to comment on his administration's internal review of intelligence programs used by the National Security Agency. The administra ...
17 Jan, 2014
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3 min read
What Are the Different Types of Primary Elections?
Primaries first began in the early twentieth century as a response to increasingly strong party control over elections. At the time, voters wanted a larger say in who would be chosen as their candidat ...
16 Jan, 2014
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9 min read
Number of Registered Independents Nationwide Jumps 11.2% in 5 Years
Put the state of Colorado into a news search engine right now and you’ll get one big result: Yes, you can now legally buy marijuana for personal use in the state.However, there’s something more impor ...
13 Jan, 2014
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3 min read
Taxpayers Continue to Flee States with Heaviest Tax Burdens
United Van Lines (UVL) is one of the largest moving companies in the United States. Each year since 1977, UVL has issued a study of interstate migration patterns. This study reports the share of outbo ...
03 Jan, 2014
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2 min read
GOP Will Not Survive without Independent Voters, Strategist Says
Could the Republican Party be spent as a national electoral force? It will be if it doesn’t learn from its mistakes and return to a more central position in American life which includes talking to ind ...
03 Dec, 2013
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3 min read
NSA Spying Scandal Creates Uncertain Relationship with Brazil
As of July 2013, American journalist Glenn Greenwald has published several accusations against U.S. authorities, such as the National Security Agency, who have allegedly spied on not only American ci ...
25 Nov, 2013
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2 min read
Over 33% of Population Lives in a State Where Gay Marriage is Legal
Last week, both Illinois and Hawaii passed same-sex marriage making them the 15th and 16th states to do so. Overall, 2013 has been quite a year for the LGBT community. These last two states just seem ...
12 Nov, 2013
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5 min read
Abysmal Voter Turnout in 2013: A Sign Voting Should Be Easier
“Off-year” elections, like those in 2013, tend not to get a lot of attention, especially from voters. There are not a lot of big races around the country, and turnout is usually far lower than in pres ...
12 Nov, 2013
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3 min read
Early Voting May Help Resolve Voting Rights Battle, Report Finds
The fact that early voting is even a contentious issue in America today tells us a great deal about how poisoned our politics has become; how untethered it often can seem from sense and sensibil ...
04 Nov, 2013
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5 min read