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Major National Reform Progress: New Initiatives, Spotlights, Books, and More...
Major National Reform Progress: New Initiatives, Spotlights, Books, and More...
First, on behalf of the NANR Board, I want to thank our members for making NANR's first Spotlight program on June 8 a big success, highlighting the important work our members are doing to ensure safe ...
18 Jun, 2020
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5 min read
Need More Proof of a Rigged Political Process?
Need More Proof of a Rigged Political Process?
Most Americans believe the US is headed in the wrong direction, trust in the federal government is at dismal levels, and people are consumed by frustration, grief, and/or rage in uncertain and tumultu ...
18 Jun, 2020
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11 min read
DC Court Rejects Evidence of Rigged Two-Party Bias in Presidential Debates
DC Court Rejects Evidence of Rigged Two-Party Bias in Presidential Debates
Editor's Note: This article originally published in The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher.‍A long, and long-shot, quest to get more candidates onto the presidential d ...
16 Jun, 2020
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3 min read
It's Time to Break the 'Fixed' Two-Party Duopoly
It's Time to Break the 'Fixed' Two-Party Duopoly
‍"Most Americans believe our political system is a public institution that follows a set of detailed, impartial principles, structures and practices derived from the Constitution… It isn’t.” - Katheri ...
11 Jun, 2020
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5 min read
Pro-Voter Reformers: George's Primary Debacle Underscores Need for Vote-By-Mail Nationwide
Pro-Voter Reformers: George's Primary Debacle Underscores Need for Vote-By-Mail Nationwide
The Georgia elections Tuesday were characterized as “catastrophe.” A new $104 million voting system broke down, many voters couldn’t vote as a result of a ballot shortage, and those who could ended up ...
10 Jun, 2020
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2 min read
New Study Says Nonpartisan Primaries 'Most Likely' to  Disrupt Political Monopoly in Baltimore
New Study Says Nonpartisan Primaries 'Most Likely' to Disrupt Political Monopoly in Baltimore
Baltimore is a one-party city, so much so that it hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1967. Registered Democrats vastly outnumber any other party registration, having a tenfold advantage over the Repu ...
08 Jun, 2020
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3 min read
Beware The Harvest: What Tops the 6 Downsides of an All-Mail Election
Beware The Harvest: What Tops the 6 Downsides of an All-Mail Election
This article first appeared on The Fulcrum.DeVore, a Republican state legislator in California from 2004 through 2010, is vice president for national initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, ...
08 Jun, 2020
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5 min read
June's 'Super Tuesday' Proves Vote-at-Home Works, Advocates Say
June's 'Super Tuesday' Proves Vote-at-Home Works, Advocates Say
In the midst of social turmoil and civil unrest, on top of an ongoing pandemic, the news didn’t spare much time to talk about 9 primary elections held Tuesday -- primaries that, according to vote at h ...
03 Jun, 2020
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10 min read
Open Primaries Should Head List of Crisis-Driven Election Reforms
Open Primaries Should Head List of Crisis-Driven Election Reforms
Many Mainers, for the first time, have been confronted with what it means to have their right to vote threatened. It’s a deeply unsettling feeling. Which is why editorial boards across the state, incl ...
02 Jun, 2020
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4 min read
GOP Sues to Stop California's Plan For an All-By-Mail General Election
GOP Sues to Stop California's Plan For an All-By-Mail General Election
This article was first published on The FulcrumThe GOP has sued to prevent the effort to conduct the November election almost entirely by mail in the nation's most populous state as a way to limit the ...
27 May, 2020
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3 min read