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Vermont Sets An Example for Bipartisan Vote-By-Mail Expansion | Independent Voter Newselection reform legislation has been rife with partisanship, Vermont is bucking that trend. Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed into law on Monday a measure that will automatically send Vermont's 495,000 registered voters a mail-in ballot ahead of statewide…
Will New England States Bolster Ranked Choice Voting in 2019? | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. New Voting Methods. Will New England States Bolster Ranked Choice Voting in 2019? January 4, 2019. MONTPELIER, VT. - New legislation is slated to be introduced in the Vermont legislature that would implement ranked choice voting for the state's…
INCREDIBLE: Third Party, Independent Representation Up 40% Since 2014 | Independent Voter Newsopportunity to help third parties elsewhere. The other eight states where it remains legal don’t demonstrate that success. Separately, the arrangement is not without some controversy in Vermont. Terri Hallenbeck chronicles the tensions between Vermont’s…
3 More States Expand Access to Absentee Voting | Independent Voter Newsthis year. Vermont joined the handful of states that have decided to send return-by-mail ballots to all voters for the general election. And Connecticut's plans to open mail voting to everyone in next month's primary survived a GOP lawsuit. The various…
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10 States Where Party Planners Can Host (and Avoid) Representative Primaries | Independent Voter Newscountry. And Vermont, the home state of Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders, should have minimal influence over the process because its makeup is least similar to the entire United States — meaning the results from that state would be hardly at all…
19 States Where It Is Never Too Late to Register to Vote | Independent Voter Newssame day-places are reliably in Biden's corner: California, Colorado, Connecticut, D.C. Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, Vermont and Washington. Another regularly blue state, New Mexico, will institute same-day registration starting next year. Idaho…
Fact Check: Can Mail-In Ballots Be Sent to the Wrong Address? | Independent Voter Newsdistinction from "everyone") a ballot without a request. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Colorado, Hawaii, Utah, Washington and Oregon were already vote-by-mail states. But now California, Nevada and Vermont will also automatically send ballots to registered voters…
New Jersey The First State to Reverse COVID-Inspired Swith to Vote-by-Mail | Independent Voter NewsCalifornia, Nevada, Vermont, almost all of Montana and Washington, D.C. None of them has decided for sure what their election systems will be for 2022 or beyond. New Jersey was pressed to make a decision because it and Virginia are the only states with…
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020 | Independent Voter News(39.5 million), and the second-least populous state, Vermont. (624,000), the solidly Democratic legislatures have voted to send every registered voter an absentee ballot while also providing for in-person voting. For at least this year, they will join the…
Moves in three states to avoid another Wisconsin, even as Sanders bows out | Independent Voter Newsthe biggest news of the week about keeping democracy safe during the coronavirus pandemic. The Vermont senator dropped out Wednesday, hours after the end of a. chaotic day of primary voting. in Wisconsin that went ahead on schedule even though a federal…