Sara Swann is a staff writer for The Fulcrum, where she reports on big money in politics, gerrymandering, voting rights and other democracy reform issues.
Election Reform
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Voters in Clark County, Wash., will get the opportunity in 2022 to decide whether to move to ranked-choice voting for future elections. The county’s Charter Review Commission,
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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. With the 2021 redistricting cycle in full swing, one-third of the country has already solidified some of its new state and federal districts for the next decade. Sixteen
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on the IVN Network with permission from the publisher. The massive elections reform bill known as the Freedom to Vote Act appears to be headed down the same path as its predecessor: blocked from Senate
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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. Nearly all Americans agree that the proliferation of misinformation online is a problem, but few believe they have played a part in spreading it, recent polling found. More
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher. Public opinion of the Supreme Court dropped to its lowest point in two decades after the justices declined to block Texas' controversial abortion law, new polling shows, echoing poor
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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. The Republican and Democratic parties have dominated politics for decades, with alternative parties occasionally sprouting up but rarely having a significant impact on elections. Political reformers will be
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher. Ineffective communication between members of Congress and their constituents has led to a breakdown in trust in government and democratic institutions, a recent report found. Lawmakers are inundated with constituent
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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. Despite more Americans than ever opting to vote by mail in the 2020 election, a comprehensive government report found no significant increase in ballot rejections — refuting former President
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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. To the casual observer, gerrymandering can be difficult to spot, especially with recent technological advancements. But two new tools make it much easier to uncover partisan map manipulation.
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the Fulcrum and has been republished on the IVN Network with permission from the publisher. A vast majority of voters, across the political spectrum, would support Congress taking action to combat election subversion, new polling found. The survey found strong bipartisan
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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. More than halfway into the year, and with most state legislative sessions concluded, the full scope of voting changes spurred by the 2020 election is coming into view.
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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. President Biden on Tuesday decried the wave of GOP-backed voting restrictions as a "21st century Jim Crow assault" on American democracy. But "good government"