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4 Important Take Aways from the IVN 2020 Presidential Survey
Last week, we asked the IVN Facebook audience to tell us who they would be willing to support in the 2020 presidential election. The survey, which represents the views individual members of our a...
Giving Millions of Citizens A Better Way To Vote
New York City voters could soon adopt a fairer, more empowering, and more representative voting method in November, while other states look to join Maine in making history with ranked choice voting in...
OPINION: Corporate Citizenship Starts with not Undermining Our Democracy
When a Facebook post launched a mass movement to stop self-serving legislators from drawing their own districts in Michigan in 2018, organizers knew they would face stiff opposition from incumbents be...
Newsletter: Have You Heard About "UnRig it"?
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...
6 Big Fights Against Voter Suppression That Neither Party Wants You To Know About
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 an...
Bad Solutions and No Solutions: The Two-Party Failure on Gun Violence
Referencing events in El Paso and Dayton a week ago, the editors of The Lives of Guns, commented via Politico, “The two mass shootings this weekend have inflamed a gun-control debate that never seems ...
Mass. Voters May Get Ranked Choice Voting on the 2020 Ballot
Voter Choice Massachusetts is proposing a ballot initiative to implement ranked choice voting statewide. The group has filed language with the state attorney general ahead of Wednesday's deadline.Inde...
Disappointing, But Not Unexpected: Court Leaves Gerrymandering Reform to States; So Let’s Get to Work
The Supreme Court’s decision to punt on partisan gerrymandering (RUCHO ET AL. v. COMMON CAUSE ET AL.) was discouraging for many in the electoral reform movement, but really should not have come as a s...
Lawsuit FILED: Voters v. California Secretary of State
“No taxation without representation.”That was the battle cry for Freedom that fueled the American revolution.Yet, today, the interests of private political parties are put ahead of “We, the People.” T...
Study: Politicians Don't Really Care What Voters Want... Because They Don't Have To
Do you remember the old Schoolhouse Rock segment about how a bill becomes a law? The first step, according to the bill, is that constituents come together in support of new legislation, they call thei...