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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…
Convoluted CA Presidential Primary Rules Add to Vote Count Nightmare | Independent Voter Newsthe final vote tally and results. However, California will still be counting votes when Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and Washington report the winner of their primaries Tuesday night -- leaving California in the rearview mirror…
2019 Unrig Summit Celebrates Historic Victories Over Two-Party Duopoly | Independent Voter Newsrepresentatives will govern.”. In North Dakota, a team of “badass grandmas” led a campaign to enact sweeping anti-corruption measures that promote greater transparency and accountability in the state government. “I think we cleverly packaged a label, a…
Can't Argue With Science: MIT Study Supports Growing Demands to Unrig US Elections | Independent Voter Newsis making waves. STL Approves. is finishing up its signature drive to put approval voting on the city ballot in St. Louis, Missouri. Approval voting advocates are hoping to follow the reform's success in Fargo, North Dakota, in 2018 where it was approved…
6 Big Fights Against Voter Suppression That Neither Party Wants You To Know About | Independent Voter NewsMethod Coming to St. Louis? In 2018, Fargo, North Dakota, made history by becoming the first city to adopt approval voting for local elections. Approval voting is an alternative voting method that gives voters the option to choose as many candidates on the…
10 Nonpartisan Organizations to Watch in 2020 | Independent Voter Newscandidates on the ballot as they want and the candidate with the most votes wins. In terms of alternative voting methods, it doesn’t get much simpler. Fargo, North Dakota became the first jurisdiction in the United States to adopt approval voting in 2018, part of…
Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Opinion. Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists. January 2, 2019. In December, I wrote an article on a particularly egregious case of the famous legislative "revolving door." After sixteen years in the South Dakota Legislature, Senator Deb…
Tulsi Gabbard: US Regime Change Policies Undermine North Korea Talks | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Legislation. Tulsi Gabbard: US Regime Change Policies Undermine North Korea Talks. February 26, 2019. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard believes that the US's response to the sociopolitical crisis in Venezuela could prevent successful negotiations with North…
Independents and Major Party Candidates Should Play by the Same Rules | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Opinion. Independents and Major Party Candidates Should Play by the Same Rules. November 15, 2019. It might surprise you to learn North Carolina (NC) has more unaffiliated (Independent) voters than Republicans. The percentage of NC voters…
Shawn Griffiths | Independent Voter NewsShawn Griffiths. Shawn, election reform expert and former editor for IVN.us, studied history and philosophy at the University of North Texas. He joined the IVN team in 2012.…