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Migrant Students Work in Fields During COVID School Closures | CalMatters
Sisters Maria and Jennifer Salvador start their days before the sun. The Southern California teenagers report to work at an Oxnard strawberry farm with one goal: To harvest as many bright red strawber...
Being in Bensonhurst: Remembrance. Resistance. Reality.
I.The marches in Bensonhurst are a distant memory for me. They were 30 years ago. I don’t recall many of the specifics, the details. We rode on busses to the Slave Theatre in Brooklyn and congregated ...
Fact Check: Can Mail-In Ballots Be Sent to the Wrong Address?
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Absentee voting refers to when a voter requests a ballot for an e...
Iowa Is Officially No Longer The Only State with a Lifetime Ban On Felons Voting
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Iowa's governor decreed Wednesday that most felons in the state...
Why The Maine GOP's Biggest Argument Against Ranked Choice Voting is a Lie
After failing to submit enough valid signatures for a People’s Veto, Maine’s Republican bosses are again trying to kill ranked-choice voting (RCV). In this case, the GOP leadership is hiding behind fo...
The Way We Conduct Primaries is a Problem, and These Campaigns Aim to Fix It
There is growing consensus among pro-voter reformers that when we discuss comprehensive solutions to provide voters with better elections, primary election reform has to be a part of the conversation....
Top Virginia Newspapers Endorse Amendment to End Party Control over Political Redistricting
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the latest newspaper to publish an endorsement of a constitutional amendment that would end single-party control over redistricting in Virginia and bring transparency to...
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost h...
New Report Warns Campaign Finance Loophole Invites Foreign Interference in Elections
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Businesses that finance super PACs could be exploited by foreign...
OPINION: Maine GOP's Hypocrisy on Ranked Choice Voting
Consider this voting method: “If, on the first ballot, no one candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, the candidate receiving the least number of votes shall be eliminated…balloting shall con...