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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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Andrew Yang Says Goodbye to the Democratic Party
After 26 years as a registered Democrat, Andrew Yang has announced he is breaking up with the party. Yang published a statement Monday that says he wants to be a catalyst for change and advancement in ...
04 Oct, 2021
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California Permanently Adopts Universal Vote-by-Mail, But Ignores Bigger Voting Rights Problem
California is now the largest state to permanently adopt universal mail-in ballot distribution. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the measure into law Monday. While it goes a long way to increase voter par ...
28 Sep, 2021
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3 min read
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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All Aboard The Freedom to Vote Act Train
It’s January 2021, there’s a new president in D.C., a new Senate majority and a Democratic majority crowing about how voting rights is their top priority, even making the For the People Act their firs ...
22 Sep, 2021
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3 min read
Statewide Coalition Launches to Bring Ranked Choice Voting to California
Could ranked choice voting soon come to the nation’s most populous state? That is the goal of a new coalition that officially launched on Tuesday, September 21.The California RCV Coalition introduced ...
22 Sep, 2021
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4 min read
Can Andrew Yang's New Party Break Through The Two-Party Duopoly?
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.The Republican and Democratic parties have dominated politics f ...
14 Sep, 2021
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3 min read
A Court of the Inquisition
On September 1, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, refused to prevent new, draconian Texas abortion legislation from taking effect. The Court’s tentative acceptance of that law, ...
14 Sep, 2021
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6 min read
The Success Story Behind Maine's Adoption of Semi-Open Primaries
Maine has long been at the forefront of political innovation, from the way its ballots are designed, to its clean election funds program, to same-day voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting, ...
13 Sep, 2021
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2 min read
Do California Elections Need Ranked Choice Voting?
Toppling the Duopoly host Shawn Griffiths is joined by Tom Charron, who is representing a new group called the California RCV Coalition (Cal RCV). At a time when ranked choice voting is having a momen ...
10 Sep, 2021
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1 min read