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High Court Accepts Case Involving Independent Voters
UPDATE: An important court case that could change the way the court views partisanship in the courtroom will be heading to the Supreme Court on March 25th. At stake is whether party affiliation, when ...
09 Mar, 2020
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Convoluted CA Presidential Primary Rules Add to Vote Count Nightmare
It didn’t take long for the presidential landscape to radically shift following a monumental Super Tuesday. Yet, despite the departure of the richest person to run for president in modern US hist ...
09 Mar, 2020
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9 min read
Here's What Each Candidate Has Spent Per Vote in The Democratic Primary
With a lot of primary left to go, the Democratic presidential candidates have raised and already spent a small fortune on their White House aspirations.So much for keeping money out of politics, right ...
07 Mar, 2020
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6 min read
Letter to the Bangor Daily News: Ending party control of elections
Written by Joe Pickering of Mainers for Open Elections, originally published in the Bangor Daily News.“Go Vote,” the March 4 BDN editorial urges. “There is no better way to reinvigorate the democratic ...
05 Mar, 2020
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1 min read
National Security Threat Whistleblower Blake Percival Releases Tell-All Book On IVN’s Deconstructed
“Blake Percival is one of the most important whistleblowers in recent history,” Attorney Larry Golston says. “We as a country are safer because of what he did.”The former Director of Fieldwork Service ...
02 Mar, 2020
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Sanders Criticizes California for Denying Independent Voters the Right to Vote
All the momentum in the 2020 Democratic presidential race appears to be behind US Senator Bernie Sanders after another victory in Nevada over the weekend. Now, headed into the most consequential Super ...
26 Feb, 2020
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14 min read
A Pathway to Ending Hyper-Polarization: Structural Reforms Won’t do it Alone
We can all agree that Washington is broken. Gridlock ensues as the divide between the Republicans and Democrats reaches Grand Canyon size proportions. Watching the Republicans put party over country i ...
14 Feb, 2020
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5 min read
The Independent State of the Union
Brace yourselves voters!Donald Trump's third State of the Union Address was-- exactly like every other SOTU address any of us has ever seen in our lifetimes.Okay, maybe not exactly like ever ...
05 Feb, 2020
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6 min read
An Independent Voter Guide to The Impeachment Trial
The impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump is underway!And it is... intensely predictable.This is why more and more voters are becoming independent.Democrats Want Trump Removed ...
28 Jan, 2020
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5 min read
Something Has to Give: The Case for Independents 1/3
The most basic right in a healthy democracy is the right to vote. Without this right, governments can turn into the worst of autocracies and dictatorships, ignoring the needs of citizens and abusing t ...
28 Jan, 2020
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5 min read