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GOP Fails Again to Stop Independent Redistricting in Michigan | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. The Fulcrum. GOP Fails Again to Stop Independent Redistricting in Michigan. July 8, 2020. Editor's Note: This article. originally appeared. in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Another Republican…
Michigan Voted to End Partisan Gerrymandering; Are Partisan Primaries Next? | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Open Primaries. Michigan Voted to End Partisan Gerrymandering; Are Partisan Primaries Next? February 12, 2019. As a business owner and lifelong resident of Michigan, I am proud to have stood with so many of my fellow citizens soliciting…
Michigan's Capital May Be Denied Right to Decide Its Own Elections | Independent Voter Newsnow the same council members that said residents could decide for themselves how elections are conducted in the city. may pull the initiative. Why? Well, the council received a letter from Michigan Elections Director Jonathan Brater, who argued that the…
UPDATE: Republican Insiders Sue to Take Redistricting Back from Michigan Voters | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Gerrymandering. UPDATE: Republican Insiders Sue to Take Redistricting Back from Michigan Voters. August 5, 2019. Update 8/20/19: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nesse filed a brief in federal court on Monday, August 19, asking the judge to drop a…
Supreme Court: Federal Court Will NOT Stop Partisan Gerrymandering | Independent Voter Newsout of Michigan. , where a lower court ordered 34 legislative and congressional districts to be redrawn because the court found that the districts were drawn explicitly for the purpose of giving Republicans an advantage. The Supreme Court voided this…
Postal Service Warns Tossup States of Delivery Challenges under Voting Deadlines | Independent Voter NewsThe Postal Service is warning the two biggest Midwest presidential battlegrounds, Pennsylvania and Michigan, that much of their election mail won't get delivered on time because the states' absentee ballot deadlines are too tight. That sounding of the alarm…
Leon Jackson | Independent Voter NewsLeon Jackson. Leon Jackson is a Michigan businessman and election reform activist. He is the owner and CEO of Thumb BioEnergy LLC based in Troy.…
How to Slay a Dragon | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Opinion. How to Slay a Dragon. March 9, 2020. I recently had the pleasure of watching. Slay the Dragon. , Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance’s stunning documentary on the fight against partisan gerrymandering in Michigan and Wisconsin. It played…
Dem Rep Says His Party Needs Someone Authentic in 2020; Not An Ideologue | Independent Voter Newswith Newsy, Michigan US Rep. Dan Kildee (Flint) says his party needs to recognize that Trump won people in Michigan and other states critical to his 2016 win because they were fed up with a system they felt was rigged against them -- and they wanted an…
2020 and Beyond: The View from County Road T | Independent Voter NewsWisconsin is one of three states — with neighboring Michigan across Lake Michigan to the east, and Pennsylvania, further east touching the shores of Lake Erie — that defied predictions, polls and past patterns and delivered a combined 46 electoral votes to…