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The US Supreme Court refused to hear a last ditch attempt by Maine Republicans Tuesday to prevent ranked choice voting from being used in Maine’s presidential election -- a first in both state and US history. The Associated Press reports that Maine Republicans filed the appeal after the first votes had already been cast. Not only have ballots been sent out to overseas voters, but additional absentee ballots were returned this week either by mail or in person. Justice Steven Breyer rejected t

The race to replace San Diego’s Mayor is a little different this year. For the first time in history, two Democrats are in the runoff for the City’s top executive position. Without a party label to highlight their differences, here’s what the local media has to say: Gloria’s Mixed Messages on Bry: ‘Too Progressive’ to GOP Voters; ‘Too Republican’ to Democratic Voters The OB Rag joined other media in covering the misleading ads sent by Todd Gloria's campaign telling Republicans that Barbara

My father was a Jamaican immigrant, and I was raised in poverty by my single mother. My husband is Mexican and Puerto Rican — our family is proudly multiracial. We urge Californians to vote “no” on Proposition 16 in November. In June, amidst an unprecedented health crisis, the California Legislature proposed a dire change to our State Constitution: a repeal of Proposition 209, which passed in 1996 and prohibits California’s public sector, including universities, from discriminating against, or

Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on The Free and Equal Elections Foundation's website and has been republished on IVN with permission from the authors. ‍ Last week’s showdown between the sitting U.S. President and his opponent was an exhausting production that played into the divisiveness of our country, rather than focusing on solutions. Since 2008, we have been sounding the alarm on the two party system’s control of Presidential debates, while creating alternative platforms tha

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to [email protected] How does San Diego compare to other coastal cities? Like San Francisco and Santa Barbara, San Diego is well-positioned on the beautiful Pacific coast. Unlike these cities, San Diego has officials who seem determined to wall-off our coast and bays. San Francisco has preserved four closed military bases and an amazing 82,000 acres of prime coastal headlands – forever protected for public use. Santa Barbara's coastal hei

Independent Voting recently released the results of its second national survey "Confronting A New Reality: Independents Speak Out,” interviewing over 3,600 independent voters across the country on the hot button issues of 2020 (from the government's handling of COVID to police reform to what being independent means to them). The survey gave voice to a segment of the voting population that is often ignored in the current political climate. “What I love about this survey, its results, and the ac

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Monday morning, Sept. 28, California woke up sweaty, devastated, even shocked to find the state burning again. But if we’re honest, and to our great shame, no one was surprised. We’d seen this horror movie in this town. Three years ago, wildfire killed 25 people in Sonoma County. Now the Glass Fire was there, again, burning toward Santa Rosa. At 12:30 a.m., a string of seniors stood in line, many in pajamas, waiting to board an evacuation bus f

Last week TPR shared a new report from Embarcadero Institute disputing the accuracy of the state's methodology for calculating local housing needs. With the state moving to hold local governments accountable for meeting housing production goals and the report finding a 900,000 unit discrepancy, offered here is Embarcadero Institute's response to criticism received regarding the report's conclusions. Report author, Gab Layton, has a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and currently serves on the advis

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to [email protected]. “Slam Diego” is a slogan we are seeing all around town as the Padres have set an MLB record for consecutive grand slam homeruns this season and just clinched a spot in the postseason for the first time since 2006. But, our hometown roster of Swingin’ Friars isn’t the only group swinging past the fences and sliding across home plate in East Village this year. Last week, the City of San Diego decided to enter into an e

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. ‍ Nearly 100,000 New York City voters were mailed general election ballots with incorrect names and return addresses. The defective absentee ballots were first reported on Monday, and the following day the New York City Board of Elections confirmed the problem affected 99,477 voters in Brooklyn who had requested one. New ballots with correct information will be pr