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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...
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...
Voting Rights Advocates Dealt 3 Major Blows after Historic Victories
Voting Rights Advocates Dealt 3 Major Blows after Historic Victories
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.‍After a string of recent successes, advocates for improving the fairn...
Will John Roberts Save Democracy?
Will John Roberts Save Democracy?
Lawrence Goldstone is the author of numerous books and articles on Constitutional Law, most recently “On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Votin...
Former Michigan Gov Calls Mail-In Voter Fraud Claims 'Utter BS'
Former Michigan Gov Calls Mail-In Voter Fraud Claims 'Utter BS'
As the fight continues across the country to expand safe and secure options for voters to participate in the 2020 elections, 5 nonpartisan organizations collaborated to put on a virtual rally to bolst...
Straight-Ticket Voting Won't Return to Texas in 2020
Straight-Ticket Voting Won't Return to Texas in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and was republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Straight-ticket voting won't be returning to Texas now that a federal...
Racism and Closed Primaries: A History Intertwined
Racism and Closed Primaries: A History Intertwined
That voter suppression is antithetical to democracy seems axiomatic, particularly if democracy is defined as rule by the majority. It is also, however, perhaps the most effective means for a minority ...
National Reformers Spotlight Record-Setting Elections under Vote at Home, Ranked Choice Voting
National Reformers Spotlight Record-Setting Elections under Vote at Home, Ranked Choice Voting
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacies of most elections in the US, specifically when it comes to protecting the right of voters in the midst of a crisis. However, two reforms have taken c...
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,...
Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Voting-By-Mail Expansion in Texas
Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Voting-By-Mail Expansion in Texas
This article was first published on The Fulcrumupdate: A federal appeals court has temporarily put on hold a lower court’s sweeping ruling that would have allowed all Texas voters to qualify to vote b...