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Ballot Access News reported Thursday that Level the Playing Field, the reform group dedicated to changing the current presidential debate rule that practically ensures any candidate outside the two major parties does not have a place in the fall debates, along with Peter Ackerman, the Libertarian Party, and the Green Party updated their lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission. Ballot Access News reports: "On August 27, Level the Playing Field, Peter Ackerman, the Libertarian Party, and

"Let the lines fall fair." This is the message from Florida state Representative Evan Jenne (D-Dania Beach). During an interview with IVN, Rep. Jenne discussed his proposal to hand the responsibility for drawing the state's congressional and legislative boundaries over to an independent redistricting commission. Our conversation came on the heels of a fruitless special session in the Florida legislature. State lawmakers convened in August to redraw the state's congressional map after the Flori

Update: This article has been updated to include the Independent Map Amendment's response to the People's Map mailer. ILLINOIS - People's Map, a group formed by partisan-dominated interests, is opposing redistricting reform backed by the Independent Map Amendment to implement independent redistricting in Illinois. The reform, resurrected by the Independent Map movement, would place the power of redrawing state House and Senate districts into the hands of an independent commission. People's Map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u29SJjBF2Hk With three weeks left in this year's legislative session, California has entered the "Top Two" season. With the Capitol in the twilight of its annual calendar, a number of seminal bills requiring compromise – especially those requiring bipartisan votes – will come to the floors in the Assembly and the Senate. Most notably this year will be a deal to raise revenue – and hopefully enact some performance and accountability assurances – to literally fil

http://youtu.be/u29SJjBF2Hk Democratic state Senator Steve Glazer spoke at the California Nonpartisan Primary Summit on Wednesday. The event, hosted by the Independent Voter Project and California Forward, focused on the impact of California's relatively new nonpartisan, top-two primary system. Glazer shared his first-hand experience with nonpartisan primaries and how he managed to successfully endure negative attacks from his own party. He faced fellow Democrat Susan Bonilla in a special elec

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently found that the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) had not violated current rules on access to debates. That was no surprise - when you consider that the FEC, like the CPD, is divided between Democrats and Republicans. It's a bipartisan, not non-partisan agency. What was surprising, however, was a joint statement that was just released from two members of the FEC: the chair, Ann Ravel, and a commissioner, Ellen L. Weintraub. These two commissi

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. -- California legislators, public affairs representatives, and reformers of all stripes attended the first-ever California Nonpartisan Primary Summit on Wednesday at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. The event, co-hosted by the Independent Voter Project (IVP) and California Forward (CA Fwd), featured a series of discussions on nonpartisan primaries, voting rights, and the future of election reform. Proposition 14, better known as California’s nonpartisan, top-two primary, was

On August 19, the Independent Voter Project (IVP) and California Forward (CAFwd) will co-host the California Nonpartisan Primary Summit, a series of panel discussions on the effects of California's nonpartisan primary system, voting rights, and the future of election reform. "The summit will be an excellent opportunity for interested persons of all political stripes to both hear and learn from legislators, as well as political and public policy experts about the already demonstrated effects of

The latest headlines on nonpartisan voting rights are from Mississippi, Florida, Oklahoma, and California. Enjoy. Petitioning for a jungle primary Source: Mark Lane, Daytona Beach News-Journal A piece outlining the proposal in Florida for a top-two nonpartisan primary with numbers underscoring the need for opening primaries to independent voters. My Take: For those open to the concept, a stronger, more direct case can’t be made. Lane notes that in Florida over the last ten years, while Demo

The subject of California’s top-two primary is expected to draw up to 200 people on August 19 in Sacramento. That’s when the Independent Voter Project and California Forward are sponsoring a day-long discussion of the electoral reform, which is now five years old. "The goal was to elect candidates who would be reasonable, pragmatic, and open minded," said former Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado at a California Forward discussion in Los Angeles. Maldonado, as a state senator, helped break a budget de