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June's 'Super Tuesday' Proves Vote-at-Home Works, Advocates Say
In the midst of social turmoil and civil unrest, on top of an ongoing pandemic, the news didn’t spare much time to talk about 9 primary elections held Tuesday -- primaries that, according to vote at h ...
03 Jun, 2020
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10 min read
PODCAST: Contract to Unite America: Ten Reforms to Reclaim Our Republic
Neal Simon, the author of Contract to Unite America: Ten Reforms to Reclaim Our Republic, joined T.J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to discuss the challenges of our current partisan political environment an ...
03 Jun, 2020
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Three Ways COVID-19 Could Help Trump's Reelection Bid
In case you hadn’t heard, COVID-19 has disrupted the economy perhaps more than any other singular event in history. Here are three metrics to get a sense of the damage.Goldman Sachs originally forecas ...
05 Apr, 2020
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9 min read
Unrig Roundtable: How Vote-At-Home Can Save Our Republic and Save Lives
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on American life and the democratic process. Voters want a meaningful say in the 2020 elections, but they don’t want to risk their health to exercise their const ...
02 Apr, 2020
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6 min read
Opinion: Ranked Choice Voting Must Be A Part of the Coronavirus Elections Fix
Richie is president and Daley a senior fellow at FairVote, a nonpartisan electoral reform group that promotes ranked-choice voting. This month Daley published "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Bac ...
30 Mar, 2020
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5 min read
Convoluted CA Presidential Primary Rules Add to Vote Count Nightmare
It didn’t take long for the presidential landscape to radically shift following a monumental Super Tuesday. Yet, despite the departure of the richest person to run for president in modern US hist ...
09 Mar, 2020
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9 min read
Supreme Court Reaffirms It Will Not Protect Voters from Partisan Gerrymandering
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.
08 Oct, 2019
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2 min read
Supreme Court Reaffirms It Will Not Protect Voters from Partisan Gerrymandering
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:"Th ...
08 Oct, 2019
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2 min read
2020 and Beyond: The View from County Road T
For the last several years, I’ve been spending time in rural Wisconsin in a small farmhouse set on 130 heavily-wooded acres on County Road T, Polk County. This is the northwestern Wisconsin of hardscr ...
15 May, 2019
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10 min read
2019 Unrig Summit Celebrates Historic Victories Over Two-Party Duopoly
A Roadmap to A Better DemocracyBy: Wes MessamoreReform activists from around the country gathered in the Country Music Capital of the World –– Nashville, Tennessee –– over the last weekend in March to ...
08 Apr, 2019
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17 min read