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Up Next. Campaigns. Arkansas Amendments to Give Voters More Control over Their Elections Advance to 2020 Ballot. August 21, 2020. Over 150,000 Arkansas voters signed a petition to put a nonpartisan top four primaries with ranked choice voting in the…

Up Next. Campaigns. Arkansas vs Georgia: Who Wants the Worst Ballot Access Laws? February 18, 2019. America's two major political parties may dominate nearly every elected office in the country, but they remain eager to further restrict any competition in…

is the last chance Arkansas, Nevada, North Dakota and Oregon have to make the switch to an independent redistricting commission before maps are redrawn for the new decade. But the Covid-19 pandemic has made gathering signatures to qualify for the ballot…

get nonpartisan primary reform passed with an alternative voting method in Alaska, Arkansas, North Dakota, St. Louis, and the campaign to bring nonpartisan primaries to one of the nation's biggest battleground states -- Florida. Griffiths and Opdycke not…

Primaries Arkansas. has filed a lawsuit in federal circuit court in response to the Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision to remove. an amendment. from the ballot that would have implemented a nonpartisan, top-four primary with ranked choice voting in the general…

primary reform is on the ballot, but in states like Alaska, North Dakota, and Arkansas, voters have an opportunity to completely transform the electoral process. (Update 8/26/20: The North Dakota Supreme Court has. removed the proposed reform amendment. from…

solution: the ranked-choice voting ballot, as cast by thousands of voters last year in primaries in Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina and in general elections in Mississippi and, yes, Louisiana. Louisiana pioneered the process for military voters to…

while former Vice President Joe Biden can count on winning Connecticut and Trump can count on carrying. Arkansas, Tennessee. and. West Virginia. Three states have gone even further and suspended the excuse requirement altogether for this fall: Solid blue…

exclude anyone affiliated with another party, giving most voters no voice in who represents them. The one-party states of Hawaii (D) and Arkansas (R) were extreme examples in the midterm of statewide and legislative races decided early in primaries…

the special interests together, and denied the voters the right to make a simple choice about how our elections should be governed," said Carol Sawicki, chairwoman of North Dakota Voters First. With North Dakota's efforts dashed, Virginia. and. Arkansas…