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Maine Primary Voters Agree: Ranked Choice Voting Simple, Fair, and Easy
The League of Women Voters of Maine announced results of an on-line survey asking how voters liked using ranked choice voting in the June 12 primary.The informal survey does not purport to represent t ...
18 Jun, 2018
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2 min read
LISTEN NOW: DNC Proposes New "Loyalty Oath" to BERN Independents
In my latest interview, I spoke with Nick Braña, who served as the National Outreach Coordinator for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign and is the founder of the Movement for a People's Party, ...
14 Jun, 2018
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IVN Podcast: CA Rep. Scott Peters Says "Don't Count On Immigration Reform"
House Speaker Paul Ryan and lawmakers have been working on a pair of bills that if passed, would solve the long-sought comprehensive immigration reform the country clearly needs.Next week, Speaker Rya ...
14 Jun, 2018
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5 min read
IVP & FairVote Call For Top Four Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting
National Election Reform Groups, the Independent Voter Project and FairVote, are advocating for a primary that advances the “top-four” candidates instead of just two.The groups believe doubl ...
13 Jun, 2018
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4 min read
Maine Voters Lift Up Democracy; Democratic Party Pulls It Down
A wise man once said, “Those who make the rules, rule.” Today, we wonder whether the current rules of voting and governing can deliver any kind of progress.An important rules question was on the ballo ...
13 Jun, 2018
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5 min read
Ranked Choice Voting Stands In Maine
It's been a long, bumpy road for ranked choice advocates in Maine. State politicians have pulled out all the stops to overturn the voter-approved election reform, but Maine voters sent them a strong m ...
12 Jun, 2018
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4 min read
Unbelievable: Maine's LePage Threatens to Not Certify Ranked Choice Voting Results
Maine Gov. Paul LePage opposes ranked choice voting so much that he says he "probably" won't certify Tuesday's election results.Every Mainer who voted in Tuesday's primary made history. They were the ...
12 Jun, 2018
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2 min read
The Myths, The Facts, The Future: Everything You Need to Know About Ranked Choice Voting
Partisan gerrymandering. Money in politics. The Electoral College. Undue restrictions on who votes and how we vote. Every contentious election issue discussed today was either inherited from 18th-century England or came out of a compromise in our democracy’s incubation when there were few voters and fewer voting models.
11 Jun, 2018
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17 min read
Robert J. Dole Institute Explores the ‘Rise of the Independents’
In a political world dominated by voices from the Republican and Democratic parties, the Robert J. Dole Institute at the University of Kansas stepped outside of the partisan narrative with its Spring ...
07 Jun, 2018
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5 min read
No Joke, Maine's LePage Says We Need Minority Rule
In his weekly public address Wednesday, Maine Governor Paul LePage took time to talk about the upcoming June 12 primary elections, specifically about his objection to Clean Elections funding and -- in ...
06 Jun, 2018
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3 min read