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With all the news on impeachment updates, a news story that flew under the radar this week was the latest decision by the Supreme Court to punt on a gerrymandering case out of Ohio. Reuters reports: "The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a challenge to Republican-drawn congressional districts in Ohio that Democrats said were drawn to unlawfully diminish their political clout, a move that follows a major ruling by the justices in June that foreclosed such lawsuits. The court’s action in t

With all the news on impeachment updates, a news story that flew under the radar this week was the latest decision by the Supreme Court to punt on a gerrymandering case out of Ohio.

The exclusionary presidential debate rules that prevent any candidate outside the Republican and Democratic Parties from participating is another critical cog in the anti-competitive electoral machine that is crippling our representative democracy.

The Arizona Democratic Party has given the state’s 1.3 million independent voters a hard snub ahead of the 2020 election.

The Arizona Democratic Party has given the state’s 1.3 million independent voters a hard snub ahead of the 2020 election. Party officials rejected a proposal Saturday to open its presidential preference election, despite urging from younger party activists and nonpartisan reformers to support the idea. Instead, both major political parties continue to send voters a clear message: “Pick a party” or don’t vote. Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts reported that those were, in fact, the wo

The California Common Sense Party is trying to introduce new political competition into California, not by pursuing an ideological agenda, but by appealing to voters from across the political spectrum who want to put practical policy before partisan politics.

Political insiders know what more and more voters are finally waking up to: the political “game” is rigged by both sides. From “member communications,” to gerrymandering, to systematic attempts to keep anyone who doesn’t toe the party-line from participating in elections, there is a reason voters “don’t matter” to the political class. But voters are waking up. In New York City, over 8 million residents could soon adopt ranked choice voting to reduce the “spoiler” effect for independent candid

There is one important truth about the state of US politics, and that is an increasing number of Americans understand that the system is rigged to put the interests of two private political parties and special interests first. The political establishment knows it. The media knows it. But, they don’t want the people to know it. They don’t want people to know that there are literally hundreds of organizations across the country working to unrig our political duopoly. They don’t want you to kno

The first episode of "UnRig It," the new podcast of the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, features two topics: first, on data for nonpartisan reform groups. We welcome Paul Westcott from L2 political to provide an update on data and modeling, as well as how NANR’s relationship with L2 can help level the playing field with the NANR Advantage Data Platform. Second, we discuss the important legal actions happening across the country to demand increased competition and choice for all v

On July 23, 2019, the Independent Voter Project (IVP)-- one of 7 plaintiffs -- filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Alex Padilla (Boydsten v. Padilla) for failing to provide an open presidential primary as required by the state constitution. Over the last several years, IVP has warned the secretary of state and the state legislature that millions of registered voters would be disenfranchised by a semi-closed presidential primary process that is both confusing and broadly criticized. The