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Lawsuit Aims to Halt any More Online Voting in New Jersey
This article was first published on The FulcrumNew Jersey piloted a new online voting system for people with disabilities this week, but a lawsuit could stop the state from using it again.Human rights ...
18 May, 2020
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Covid-19: Nothing's Deadlier Than Not Acting Now
Last week President Trump announced that he will be making the "toughest decision" of not just his presidency but his life: When and how to open our Covid-ravaged country again.During the same week, D ...
15 Apr, 2020
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Saving the Voting Rights Act: Virginia as a case study for reform
Originally published on The Fulcrum.Enactment of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 remains a celebrated landmark in American history. It's time to celebrate the law's potential anew by making some big cha ...
15 Apr, 2020
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THE SPEECH THAT BERNIE SHOULD GIVE (but probably won’t)
Hello America! Hello my Brothers and Sisters!This campaign, this race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, has come to a critical point. A boiling point, some would say. And before we go ...
09 Mar, 2020
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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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Here's What Each Candidate Has Spent Per Vote in The Democratic Primary
With a lot of primary left to go, the Democratic presidential candidates have raised and already spent a small fortune on their White House aspirations.So much for keeping money out of politics, right ...
07 Mar, 2020
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10 States Where Party Planners Can Host (and Avoid) Representative Primaries
Illinois should host the first presidential primaries if the goal is to pick a state that most closely matches the demographics of the country.And Vermont, the home state of Democratic front-runner Be ...
27 Feb, 2020
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Can't Argue With Science: MIT Study Supports Growing Demands to Unrig US Elections
The beginning of the 2020 presidential election was an unmitigated disaster. Results that should have been reported the night-of in Iowa instead took days as a result of technical issues with an app a ...
11 Feb, 2020
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Judge to Decide Fate of 5.6 Million California Independent Voters
On November 19, a California judge will hear arguments to determine whether California’s presidential primary rules violate the constitutional rights of California’s 5.6 million “no party preference” ...
13 Nov, 2019
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Spoiler Alert: Schultz, the Democrats, and the Independents
There is a dirty word in American politics, worse than “crook,” more terrible than “philanderer,” and more despicable than “liar.” The word is “spoiler.”A crook, a philanderer, and a liar sully the ch ...
13 Feb, 2019
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