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NH Governor Vetoes Permanent Switch to No-Excuse Vote-by-Mail
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Three months ago, Gov. Chris Sununu used his executive power to...
Damaging Democracy in Florida: What Are Phantom Candidates?
The Naples Daily News Editorial Board penned a piece earlier this month condemning the widespread practice of “phantom candidacies,” which play an unfortunate role of shutting too many voters out of t...
Despite Reported Opposition, Significant Percentage of Maine GOP Plan to Take Advantage of Ranked Choice Voting
FairVote released the results of a new SurveyUSA poll Wednesday that found that Maine Republicans in the state’s second congressional district plan to reap the benefits of ranked choice voting in the ...
Closed Primaries: The Parties' Most Effective Tool to Control (And Suppress) The Vote
2020 is already a year to remember – a world-wide pandemic, militant Black-led protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer, and a presidential election. It is ...
The Constitution: Not As Easy As It Looks
There is a good deal of mention of the Constitution on social media these days; frequently, in short, declarative sentences that express with certainty what the document means. Oftentimes these commen...
It's Our Republic, If We Can Keep It
Most people know the story: Moments after the Constitutional Convention ended in 1787, Ben Franklin walked out of Independent Hall and was approached by a woman. The woman asked, “Well, Doctor, what h...
Justice Requires Us to Act!
This is a horrific time for our country and a time of deep reflection for me. As a child of the 60’s, it is almost incomprehensible to fathom that we are experiencing a moment that is eerily simi...
Former Michigan Gov Calls Mail-In Voter Fraud Claims 'Utter BS'
As the fight continues across the country to expand safe and secure options for voters to participate in the 2020 elections, 5 nonpartisan organizations collaborated to put on a virtual rally to bolst...
Straight-Ticket Voting Won't Return to Texas in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and was republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Straight-ticket voting won't be returning to Texas now that a federal...
Legal Fight Heats Up over Missouri Law Requiring Notarized Mail-In Ballots
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Progressive groups may use the courts to pursue even more wide-...