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California elections. An October 2018 Public Policy Institute of California survey found that. 61% of Californians. believe a competitive third party is needed. The Common Sense Party is offering a new home that they call “open, responsible, and inclusive…

– Governor Newsom and the Democratic legislature are hoping to keep Republicans home. But this is old news for California’s independent voters, who outnumber Republicans in the state. Despite the state’s constitutional requirement that California provide an “open…

injunction. against the California Secretary of State stating, among other claims, that California’s confusing semi-closed presidential primary puts the interests of political parties before the constitutional rights of California's voters. Tom Campbell, Interim…

Up Next. Open Primaries. Judge to Decide Fate of 5.6 Million California Independent Voters. November 13, 2019. On November 19, a California judge will hear arguments to determine whether California’s presidential primary rules violate the constitutional…

nonpartisan primary, written by the Independent Voter Project, the election process may sound similar. However, there’s a very important distinction. In California, the first round of the election happens in the primary, months before the general election…

Up Next. Open Primaries. Never Before Have Independents Had The Power Over an Election Like They Do Right Now in California. October 10, 2018. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - It’s simple math. The Kavanaugh confirmation has calcified partisan voters like no event in…

Up Next. Campaigns. California Republicans Mimic Democrats on Ballot Harvesting. October 30, 2019. Michael Smolens, writing for the San Diego Union-Tribune. , reports that Republicans are planning to copy the California Democratic Party's strategy of…

BY INDEPENDENT VOTER PROJECT. The Independent Voter Project (IVP), author of California’s nonpartisan statewide primary system, is one of 7 plaintiffs suing the California Secretary of State, claiming that the State is violating the state’s constitution…

Up Next. Open Primaries. California’s Presidential Primaries are Blatantly Unconstitutional. September 24, 2015. Article II, Section 5(c) of the California Constitution says, “The Legislature shall provide for partisan elections for presidential…

transformers, keeping the lights on for tens of millions of Californians who mostly take it for granted. They shouldn’t, says Bakke, who grew up in a rural California town regularly darkened by outages. A cultural anthropologist who studies the consequences of…