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Legal Fight Heats Up over Missouri Law Requiring Notarized Mail-In Ballots | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Legislation. Legal Fight Heats Up over Missouri Law Requiring Notarized Mail-In Ballots. June 25, 2020. Editor's Note: This article. originally appeared. on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher…
Kentucky latest to expand mail voting in response to pandemic | Independent Voter Newsduring the pandemic. Thirty-four states allow everyone to vote absentee without citing a reason, a number that has increased rapidly in recent years. Kentucky's move leaves just six — Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas…
2019 Sees Tremendous Surge in Ranked Choice Legislation Nationwide | Independent Voter NewsMassachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Wyoming call for adopting ranked choice voting for all state and federal offices, as Maine did via referendum in 2016. Bills in Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, and Virginia would give local governments…
OPINION: Corporate Citizenship Starts with not Undermining Our Democracy | Independent Voter NewsThe same year the Missouri Chamber of Commerce funded the campaign against the Clean Missouri Act, fixing campaign finance and ethics loopholes and ending gerrymandering. And in North Dakota, the main opponents to the 2018 “voters’ right to know…
Giant Funding Gaps Threaten Elections in GOP States, Study Finds | Independent Voter NewsOhio. The fourth is Georgia, which the GOP sees as newly competitive in the presidential race. The last is Missouri, which is not a purple state but is the home of Roy Blunt, a member of the GOP Senate leadership and a central player in negotiations on…
Can't Argue With Science: MIT Study Supports Growing Demands to Unrig US Elections | Independent Voter Newsconfidence in the process and thus have resulted in higher voter turnouts. (See: 2016 University of Missouri study. ). 2020: Another Big Year for Ranked Choice Voting. Ranked choice voting (RCV) entered the mainstream conversation following its historic…
Want to Vote By Mail? Anti-Corruption Group Launches Resource to Counter Disinformation and Confusion | Independent Voter Newsidentification with their ballot. These states are Alabama, Alaska, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin require a witness. The fact that each state has its own rules and these rules are still…
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020 | Independent Voter NewsMassachusetts. along with reliably red. Alabama. and. Missouri. Seven states have made other easements to their election plans. Minnesota. residents may now provide, and receive, an unlimited amount of help from others when voting absentee. Mississippi…
THIS WEEK: An Independent Primary, Unrigging the Presidential Debates, and Reform on the Rise | Independent Voter Newscandidate. That is why the fight to open the presidential debates continues. And that’s why a coalition of nonpartisan reformers is working together in states like Maine, Missouri, Florida, and more to level the playing field for candidates and voters. Finally…
4 Campaigns Discuss How They Terminated Gerrymandering in 2018 | Independent Voter NewsColorado's Kent Thiry, Catherine Kanter from Better Boundaries Utah, Clean Missouri's Sean Soendker Nicholson. Photo Credit: USC Schwarzenegger Institute. What is this story missing? Let us know. >>. Stay Informed. Get our exclusive. Nonpartisan Reform Report. delivered to your inbox twice a month. Comments. Auto Pager Link…