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.
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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. A tallying error by the New York City Board of Elections threw the otherwise smoothly run ranked-choice voting primary into disarray on Tuesday. The Board of Elections accidentally
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Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher. More than 100,000 Georgians will be removed from the voter rolls this summer unless swift action is taken to verify their registration. Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger made
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher. While much of the country's election reform legislation has been rife with partisanship, Vermont is bucking that trend. Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed into law on Monday a
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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. Partisanship reached a boiling point in Texas over the weekend as Democratic lawmakers took a dramatic step to obstruct a GOP-backed bill that would impose severe limits on
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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. Nearly every state legislature is considering bills to either roll back pandemic-era voting easements or make permanent the rules that allowed a record-breaking number of Americans to cast
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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. As states prepare to redraw their election maps later this year, democracy reform advocates are raising the alarm once more about the severe threat of gerrymandering facing a
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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 record-high turnout in last year's general election, a new report found that a majority of congressional elections in 2020 were determined by only a small
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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. Republican lawmakers need only clear a couple minor hurdles in their effort to eliminate same-day voter registration in Montana. On Tuesday, the GOP-majority state Senate voted 32-18 along
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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 premier of ranked-choice voting in New York City appears to have gone smoothly as exit polling shows most voters found the new system easy to use. Voters
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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. At a time when democracy feels most fragile, in the wake of a divisive election fueled by disinformation and an insurrection at the Capitol, two good-government groups have
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At a time when democracy feels most fragile, in the wake of a divisive election fueled by disinformation and an insurrection at the Capitol, two good-government groups have a new proposal for restoring trust in democracy.
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Gov. Larry Hogan is making one last effort to stymie partisan gerrymandering in Maryland before the next decade's election maps are drawn.