Election Reform - Independent Voter News (Page 33)

After 2024, Republicans Should Also Want to End the Current Electoral College System

It’s time to make nationwide popular vote an issue about not partisan advantage, but civic virtue and democratic legitimacy.

By Tad Daley

January 7, 2025

After 2024, Republicans Should Also Want to End the Current Electoral College System

Will Congress Grant Independent Voters Full Voting Rights in 2025?

While all eyes are on the speakers vote Friday, a bipartisan coalition of US lawmakers plan to re-introduce legislation that would represent the largest expansion of voting rights in modern US history.

By Shawn Griffiths

January 3, 2025

Will Congress Grant Independent Voters Full Voting Rights in 2025?

In Fight Against Big Money in Politics, Maine Leads the Charge

Editor's Note: This op-ed originally published in the Portland Press Herald as a letter to the editor and was submitted to be republished on IVN with permission

By Peter Murray

January 2, 2025

In Fight Against Big Money in Politics, Maine Leads the Charge

Congress to Enter Its Most Divided Term in Modern US History

Pew Research Center analyzed historical data going back to the 88th Congress (1963-65) and found that the majority party in the upcoming term, the Republican Party, will have the slimmest majority in the House in modern history.

By Shawn Griffiths

December 27, 2024

Congress to Enter Its Most Divided Term in Modern US History

4 Principles of Change Open Primary Advocates Must Embrace

This was a big year for the open primaries movement. Seven state-level campaigns and one municipal. Millions of voters declaring their support for open primaries. New leaders emerging across the country. Primary elections for the first time at the center of the national reform debate.

By Jeremy Gruber

December 23, 2024

4 Principles of Change Open Primary Advocates Must Embrace

2024 Recap: Lessons Learned from the Successes and Failures of Statewide Primary Reform

In 2024, a historic number of statewide initiatives appeared on the ballot to open primary elections to all voters and candidates. Most of the initiatives failed, but reformers were successful in Washington DC.

By Shawn Griffiths

December 19, 2024

2024 Recap: Lessons Learned from the Successes and Failures of Statewide Primary Reform

Declining Voter Turnout and Rising Costs Highlight Problems with Runoff Elections, New Report Finds

A new report shows that runoff elections are not only expensive, but in 2024 were less effective than in any other election in modern history at providing adequate representation.

By Shawn Griffiths

December 17, 2024

Declining Voter Turnout and Rising Costs Highlight Problems with Runoff Elections, New Report Finds

Down, But Not Out: Nonpartisan Election Reformers Maintain Their Resolve

Nonpartisan election reformers have chosen not to hang their head in defeat after a few statewide losses in 2024. Instead, their mood was surprisingly optimistic when they met in San Diego for the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers’ annual summit.

By Shawn Griffiths

December 16, 2024

Down, But Not Out: Nonpartisan Election Reformers Maintain Their Resolve

The Worst Partisan Gerrymanders of the 2020s

With two post-census election cycles in the books, congressional district maps are mostly set for the remainder of the decade – which means we will know the outcomes of the vast majority of House elections before voters even cast ballots in November 2026, 2028 and 2030.

By David Meyers

December 13, 2024

The Worst Partisan Gerrymanders of the 2020s

Most Evanston Voters Said They Wanted Ranked Choice Voting, But Will They Get It?

In 2022, nearly 83% of voters in Evanston, Illinois, approved a city referendum to adopt ranked choice voting. The referendum stated that the first use of the new voting method would be during the city's consolidated elections in April 2025.

By Shawn Griffiths

December 11, 2024

Most Evanston Voters Said They Wanted Ranked Choice Voting, But Will They Get It?

As Expected, Alaska Measure 2 Recount Didn't Change Anything

The recount in Alaska over Ballot Measure 2 is complete. The state's Republican Party requested it after voters rejected the initiative and chose to keep their nonpartisan election system by a narrow margin. But as predicted on IVN, this margin wasn't narrow enough for the results to change.

By Shawn Griffiths

December 10, 2024

As Expected, Alaska Measure 2 Recount Didn't Change Anything

Exit Poll: 9-in-10 Portlanders Understood How to Fill Out Their Ranked Choice Ballot

The research and data group, FM3 Research, polled voters in Portland, Oregon, to determine how well they understood ranked choice voting (RCV) after the city's first use of it, including the unique use of proportional RCV for city council seats.

By Shawn Griffiths

December 4, 2024

Exit Poll: 9-in-10 Portlanders Understood How to Fill Out Their Ranked Choice Ballot