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Should the State Investigate Local Police Shootings? California Rethinks its Resistance
If officers shot and killed Sean Monterrosa in Connecticut or New York — instead of in Vallejo, California — a state agency would investigate the June 2 incident, when a police officer reportedly mist ...
11 Aug, 2020
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13 min read
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 ...
03 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
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 ...
03 Jul, 2020
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6 min read
The Alliance Party: An Attempt to Introduce Civility, Transparency and Responsibility into the Political Arena
Dr. James Rex, National Chair of The Alliance Party, joins host T.J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to discuss the rapid emergence of this new political party. Dr. Rex also describes the philosophical underp ...
01 Jul, 2020
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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 ...
25 Jun, 2020
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NC Bill Combining Easier Mail-In Voting with Voter ID Makes Its Way to Governor's Desk
Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Compromise legislation that would make it easier to vote absente ...
15 Jun, 2020
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4 min read
Fresh lawsuits challenge vote-by-mail limits in four Southern states
This article was first published on The FulcrumUpdated Monday afternoon to describe four, not three, lawsuits.Expanding voters' access to absentee ballots across the South during the coronavirus pande ...
05 May, 2020
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4 min read
Kentucky latest to expand mail voting in response to pandemic
Originally published on The Fulcrum.All Kentuckians will get the chance to vote by mail in the June 23 primary under a deal worked out between Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, and Secretary of State Mic ...
28 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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5 min read
Another coronavirus victim: public access to government
Originally published on The Fulcrum.Advocates of open government are sounding the alarm that local, state and federal officials are too quickly sacrificing public access to the cause of public health ...
27 Mar, 2020
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4 min read
