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These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
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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4 States Get Closer to Advancing Anti-Gerrymandering Initiatives to November Ballot
4 States Get Closer to Advancing Anti-Gerrymandering Initiatives to November Ballot
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher.‍Four states are on the cusp of approving anti-gerrymandering petitions for t ...
27 Jul, 2020
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How We Vote Could Make You Sick, And We Shouldn't Accept That
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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Beware The Harvest: What Tops the 6 Downsides of an All-Mail Election
Beware The Harvest: What Tops the 6 Downsides of an All-Mail Election
This article first appeared on The Fulcrum.DeVore, a Republican state legislator in California from 2004 through 2010, is vice president for national initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, ...
08 Jun, 2020
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5 min read
GOP Sues to Stop California's Plan For an All-By-Mail General Election
GOP Sues to Stop California's Plan For an All-By-Mail General Election
This article was first published on The FulcrumThe GOP has sued to prevent the effort to conduct the November election almost entirely by mail in the nation's most populous state as a way to limit the ...
27 May, 2020
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New Book: The Need for Political Innovation Greater Now Than before Pandemic
New Book: The Need for Political Innovation Greater Now Than before Pandemic
Many are aware by now that US Rep. Justin Amash has decided not to run for president -- citing the cumbersome realities the current political system presents to candidates outside the two major partie ...
21 May, 2020
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Courts Will Protect the Voting Rights of Party Members, But Why Not Independents?
Courts Will Protect the Voting Rights of Party Members, But Why Not Independents?
New York state cannot cancel the Democratic presidential primary, according to a ruling by a federal judge on Tuesday after top Democratic leaders tried to remove presidential candidates from the ...
08 May, 2020
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Amash's Candidacy Underscores Failures of the Two-Party System
Amash's Candidacy Underscores Failures of the Two-Party System
It came as no surprise that not long after US Rep. Justin Amash announced his Libertarian bid for president, both major parties took aim at him. Amash points out that there are “[millions] of Ame ...
29 Apr, 2020
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The Biggest Stories You've Missed This Month to End the Two-Party Duopoly
The Biggest Stories You've Missed This Month to End the Two-Party Duopoly
The one silver lining pro-voter reformers see in the midst of these unprecedented and troubling times is that voters are now even more aware of the weaknesses in the US political and electoral process ...
23 Apr, 2020
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New Study Concludes Neutral Partisan Effects of Vote at Home
New Study Concludes Neutral Partisan Effects of Vote at Home
Attacks have been made from both the right and the left about the viability of vote at home systems and their potential to advantage one party over the other. In the midst of a global pandemic that co ...
17 Apr, 2020
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