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Mass. Voters May Get Ranked Choice Voting on the 2020 Ballot | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. New Voting Methods. Mass. Voters May Get Ranked Choice Voting on the 2020 Ballot. August 9, 2019. Voter Choice Massachusetts is proposing a ballot initiative to implement ranked choice voting statewide. The group has filed language with the state…
Ranked Choice Voting Campaign Smashes Signature Requirement to Get on 2020 Ballot | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. New Voting Methods. Ranked Choice Voting Campaign Smashes Signature Requirement to Get on 2020 Ballot. May 27, 2020. Voter Choice for Massachusetts 2020. (Voter Choice Mass) announced Wednesday that it has smashed the signature requirement to get…
James Ryan | Independent Voter NewsJames Ryan. James holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Delaware and an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and currently teaches History in Springfield, MA.…
UnRig It: "There's Something Rotten in Denmark!" | Independent Voter Newsmore. Second, Mac D'Alessandro, State Director of Voter Choice Massachusetts, formerly a principal in the political consultancy, Democracy Partners. Mac discussed the tremendous momentum of ranked choice voting, which passed statewide in Maine and where 90…
2019 Sees Tremendous Surge in Ranked Choice Legislation Nationwide | Independent Voter Newsranked choice voting (RCV) has been a key part of this conversation in state legislatures from Massachusetts to Hawaii. RCV has made the agenda on 14 states and counting. The bills vary in their scope and history: those in in Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois…
Will New England States Bolster Ranked Choice Voting in 2019? | Independent Voter Newsthe alternative voting method. Vermont isn't the only state, though, that will take up ranked choice voting in 2019. The Massachusetts legislature is also likely to consider RCV legislation, as grassroots activists have heavily lobbied lawmakers to adopt…
Courts grant signature-gathering relief for politicians, but not for ballot measures | Independent Voter Newsbeen more lenient than others. In Massachusetts, a state court has loosened signature requirements for politicians this year, given the national health concerns. But a federal court in Arizona did not consider doing the same for ballot measure campaigns…
Giving Millions of Citizens A Better Way To Vote | Independent Voter Newsand all the places it will either soon be implemented or passed. This includes the Big Apple, a city of over 8 million residents, Massachusetts, Alaska, and many, many efforts nationwide to get ranked choice voting on the ballot or passed through state…
Courts Will Protect the Voting Rights of Party Members, But Why Not Independents? | Independent Voter NewsReform on the Massachusetts Ballot. Speaking of major court decisions. Voter Choice for Massachusetts 2020 was handed a big win in court after a judge ruled that they could collect electronic signatures online in their campaign to get ranked choice voting…
Need More Proof of a Rigged Political Process? | Independent Voter Newschallenging the way people view the political process and are making history with transformative reforms. Here is what has happened in the past week alone: Massachusetts Campaign Submits Record Number of Signatures to Get Ranked Choice Voting on the Ballot…