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Wide-Ranging Better Elections Amendment Removed from North Dakota Ballot | Independent Voter Newsare redrawn next year. The court's decision means North Dakota's legislative districts will remain subject to partisan. gerrymandering. for another decade. (The state's sole seat in the U.S. House isn't subject to remapping.). Soon after North Dakota Voters…
Special Interests Seek to Kill ND Amendment to Increase Election Security, Empower Voters, and End Gerrymandering | Independent Voter Newsjust going to waste our hard earned tax dollars," said Carol Sawicki, Chair of North Dakota Voters First and Fargo resident. "Drop the suit. Let the people vote. North Dakotans deserve more choices at the ballot box, not fewer.". As updates continue to…
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…
4 States Get Closer to Advancing Anti-Gerrymandering Initiatives to November Ballot | Independent Voter Newsis 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…
Every State Where the Duopoly Is Being Challenged in 2020 | Independent Voter Newsprimary 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…
"We're Throwing a Punch at the Bipartisan Establishment" | Independent Voter Newscombined efforts to 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…
Arkansas Amendments to Give Voters More Control over Their Elections Advance to 2020 Ballot | Independent Voter Newsgeneral election amendment on the November ballot. Not long after. Open Primaries Arkansas. submitted 59,000 of those signatures the amendment was certified to go before state voters. Arkansas joins Alaska and North Dakota in the growing list of states turning…
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79% of State Legislative Incumbents Had No Primary Opposition this Year | Independent Voter Newsfive states with the lowest percentages of incumbents in contested primaries include: 44. Connecticut. 43. Maine. 42. Iowa. 41. Colorado. 41. North Dakota. The maps below show a partisan breakdown between Democratic and Republican incumbents. States shaded…
Legislators Feel Caught in the Trap of Partisan Primaries | Independent Voter Newstheir primaries to independents. Some states. , such as West Virginia, have made this reform. Other states. , like North Dakota, have open primaries that permit anyone to vote in the primaries. In the meantime, the primaries trap draws tighter on GOP…
National Reformers Spotlight 9 Efforts to Give All Voters an Equal Vote in Elections | Independent Voter Newsnonpartisan primaries with this alternative voting method. Ballot referendums in Arkansas and North Dakota also garnered enough signatures to go before voters. However, after facing legal challenges, the referendums were removed from the ballot by the courts…