David Meyers, president of DBM Content Solutions, is the former Executive Editor of The Fulcrum. Before launching The Fulcrum, David spent more than two decades at CQ Roll Call, a leading publisher of political news and information.
Election Reform
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.
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For the eighth consecutive year, the United States has been rated a “flawed democracy” by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research and analysis business owned by the publisher of The Economist.
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Starting in August, voters in a handful of states will have the opportunity to change how their governments operate by determining the outcome of ballot initiatives.
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Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Four years ago, when the nation headed to the polls in the middle of Donald Trump’s divisive term as president, half of eligible voters cast a ballot.
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. In 2020, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated more than $400 million to state and local governments to boost election administration funding. Since then,
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Millennials and members of Generation Z have little faith in any level of government, and nearly half of young Black people do not feel like full citizens of
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished in its entirety on IVN with permission from the publisher. President Biden gave Ukraine top billing and said fighting inflation is the “top priority” during his State of the Union address Tuesday. But he also
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Alternative voting systems have been making inroads across the country in recent years but suffered a setback Monday when the Tennessee General Assembly passed a ban on ranked-choice
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. There’s some good news in the latest version of an annual study of government corruption: The United States didn’t become more corrupt for the first time
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. When Sen. Joe Manchin's office told CNN this week that he opposes the For the People Act, the West Virginia Democrat struck a fatal blow to
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Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. A new study suggests some voters in Wisconsin, particularly members of minority communities in that perennial tossup state, may lose their voting rights thanks to flaws in the