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National Reformers Spotlight 9 Efforts to Give All Voters an Equal Vote in Elections
National Reformers Spotlight 9 Efforts to Give All Voters an Equal Vote in Elections
With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, campaigns across the country are ramping up their activities the best they can in the final eight weeks of a pandemic-affected election. This includes several ca ...
09 Sep, 2020
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7 min read
Wide-Ranging Better Elections Amendment Removed from North Dakota Ballot
Wide-Ranging Better Elections Amendment Removed from North Dakota Ballot
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.‍A sweeping election reform measure has been removed from the Nov ...
26 Aug, 2020
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2 min read
From Internet Rights to Streeteries, How the Pandemic is Changing Working From Home
From Internet Rights to Streeteries, How the Pandemic is Changing Working From Home
Coronavirus has reshaped how Californians live, learn and work in uneven ways. The pandemic has exposed the state’s long-standing digital divide with a significant share of low-income and rural househ ...
10 Aug, 2020
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6 min read
Fact Check: Can Mail-In Ballots Be Sent to the Wrong Address?
Fact Check: Can Mail-In Ballots Be Sent to the Wrong Address?
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Absentee voting refers to when a voter requests a ballot for an e ...
10 Aug, 2020
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2 min read
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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3 min read
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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2 min read
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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3 min read
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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3 min read
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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12 min read