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Conservatives, Progressives Unite Against Powerful Interests to Pass Anti-Corruption Law
JUNEAU, ALASKA - Independent Alaska Governor Bill Walker signed a new anti-corruption law Thursday that reduces the influence of special interests, lobbyist gifts, and cracks down on taxpayer-funded f...
Could Ranked Choice Voting Help Save the Parties from Themselves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwyVJ_-q0mE&feature=youtu.beVideo Source: Rebel HQWhen it comes to electoral reform right now, there is no hotter topic -- arguably -- than ranked choice voting (RC...
Florida Legislature, Partisan Appointees Prevent Equal Voting Rights for All
FLORIDA - In March 2017, I was asked to assume leadership of the grassroots organization Florida Fair and Open Primaries (FFAOP). The organization was created by Duane Pike, of Tampa, FL in 2012 under...
Access Denied: NY Green Party Candidate Shut Out of Televised Debate
I was on a roll. As the Green Party congressional candidate for District 21 in upstate New York (NY-21), I participated in five congressional candidate debates or forums between April and June 2018. T...
Why Can't The Media See Independent Voters?
Nearing the two year mark since the shocking 2016 presidential election result devastated both the Democratic and Republican Party power structures, liberal mainstream media journalists are still stuc...
4 New Voting Methods That Upend Partisan Politics
Maine became the first state in the nation to use ranked choice voting in statewide elections in June. The historic moment has boosted interest in alternative voting methods that offer better election...
America's Power Struggle: Whose Corner Are You In?
We are having a big argument within the country -- about culture and norms. But mostly about power.I’m intimately familiar with power struggles, changing cultures and norms. I grew up between two worl...
Ranked Choice Voting Draws Historic Voter Turnout in 2018 Midterms
The following blog is based on a new FairVote report on ranked choice voting elections in 2018In the first half of 2018, nearly half a million voters ranked their choices in elections ...
Pipat’s Letter
I was following the story of the boys, the Thai soccer team and their coach, who were trapped in Tham Luang Cave in Thailand. When I passed a newsstand on Monday night and saw that four wer...
The Gerrymander Case: Who Speaks for the Country?
On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the “gerrymander” case. In Gill v. Whitford, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 3692, 138 S. Ct. 1916, 2018 WL 3013807, Democratic Party members claimed that their rights were ...