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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 ...
30 Jul, 2020
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How We Vote Could Make You Sick, And We Shouldn't Accept That
Voting is a right; This shouldn’t be a controversial statement but it is. The struggle to ensure that every adult United States citizen has the right to vote has been going on since the founding of ou ...
20 Jul, 2020
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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 ...
06 Jul, 2020
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Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Voting-By-Mail Expansion in Texas
This article was first published on The Fulcrumupdate: A federal appeals court has temporarily put on hold a lower court’s sweeping ruling that would have allowed all Texas voters to qualify to vote b ...
21 May, 2020
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Lawsuit Aims to Halt any More Online Voting in New Jersey
This article was first published on The FulcrumNew Jersey piloted a new online voting system for people with disabilities this week, but a lawsuit could stop the state from using it again.Human rights ...
18 May, 2020
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Pro-Voter Groups Stand Up for Safer, Fairer Elections in This Crisis
‘Anger.’ ‘Frustration.’ ‘Controversy.’ ‘Chaos.’ Those were among the words used to describe Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary as voters were given a choice: Risk their health to vote in-person or have no vo ...
08 Apr, 2020
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Opinion: Ranked Choice Voting Must Be A Part of the Coronavirus Elections Fix
Richie is president and Daley a senior fellow at FairVote, a nonpartisan electoral reform group that promotes ranked-choice voting. This month Daley published "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Bac ...
30 Mar, 2020
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Stop Confusing California’s Top-Two with Louisiana’s Jungle Primary
For those familiar with California’s top-two nonpartisan primary, written by the Independent Voter Project, the election process may sound similar. However, there’s a very important distinction.
14 Oct, 2019
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Stop Confusing California’s Top-Two with Louisiana’s Jungle Primary
Many eyes are on Louisiana right now where the “jungle” primary over the weekend resulted in a “runoff” election in the gubernatorial race. The top two vote-getters, Democratic Governor John Bel Edwar ...
14 Oct, 2019
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Basketball Battles and Political Scores (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)
With politics in a permanent state of chaos, we might have to look outside the political sphere to be grounded politically. At least I do. Sports is a good place to turn -- real sports, not the blood ...
10 Apr, 2019
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