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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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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.
15 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 ...
15 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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Women’s March: What’s That Word? Intersectionalism?
You may have heard the story. In late December, it came out that leaders of the Women’s March made anti-Jewish remarks and had ties Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam. You can see the ...
24 Jan, 2019
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Louisiana Statewide Race Decided by 17% of Voters, But There Is an “Instant” Solution
Louisiana held a special election for secretary of state in December, since no candidate got over 50% of the vote on Election Day. Yet, despite the fact that over 50% of registered voters turned out i ...
16 Jan, 2019
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Louisiana Statewide Race Decided by 17% of Voters, But There Is an "Instant" Solution
Louisiana held a special election for secretary of state in December, since no candidate got over 50% of the vote on Election Day. Yet, despite the fact that over 50% of registered voters turned out i ...
15 Jan, 2019
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2 min read