Election Reform Editor for IVN.us since 2012. Studied history and philosophy at University of North Texas. Covers political and election reform efforts nationwide with deep expertise on the reform movement. Based in San Diego, CA.
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"Partisan gerrymandering is diluting the voice of the American people," writes US Rep. John K. Delaney (D-Md.) in a Facebook post. Delaney posted a video on his Facebook Page Monday explaining in simple terms how partisan gerrymandering works, and how his "Open Our Democracy Act" would
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US voters say lawmakers on Capitol Hill care more about what the media is saying than what voters want. That is what a new Rasmussen poll found. Rasmussen published the results of a new poll Monday that shows 55% of respondents "believe what the media thinks matters more to
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The Supreme Court of the United States has released its October oral argument calendar. Bloomberg SCOTUS reporter Greg Stohr tweeted the cases that will be heard, which includes the Wisconsin gerrymandering case, Gill v. Whitford: https://twitter.com/GregStohr/status/887733773827289099 SCOTUS decided in June to hear the case. It
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"A cancer on our democracy." Those are the words U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar used to describe the two-party gerrymandering scheme going on in Maryland and across the country. A US district court sided with GOP voters Friday, describing Maryland's redistricting process as "
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Thousands of voters have cancelled their voter registration in Colorado since President Trump's election integrity commission requested personal voter data on every registered voter in the country. That is what the Denver Post reported Thursday. "Nearly 3,400 Coloradans canceled their voter registrations in the wake of
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SANTA FE, N.M. - The majority of Santa Fe voters sent a message to city officials in 2008: They want a change to the way local elections are conducted. They want ranked choice voting. City voters approved a local initiative to adopt ranked choice voting for local elections in
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The majority of voters are clearly fed up with politics as usual in Washington. Tens of millions feel disenfranchised, they believe elections are either broken or rigged, and most do not feel represented by the Republican and Democratic Parties. The broad frustration, discontent, and outrage over the current state of
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There is big news for the Libertarian Party: It can add one more state where it has official party status and ballot access for the 2018 midterms. Ballot Access News reported Monday that the LP's petition for party status was validated by the Arkansas secretary of state on
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Legislation that would add Oregon to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is having a little trouble in the state Senate. Willamette Week reports that the Democratic Majority Leader and the Democratic Senate President refuse to hold an up-or-down vote on the current bill. But it's the reason
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The biggest headline this week on President Donald Trump's election integrity commission is that 44 states plus DC have partly or fully rejected the commission's request for a broad array of personal voter data if it is publicly available per state law. Source: NBCNews.com Source:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Cn1zB7610 Nevada became the fifth state in the nation -- joining Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington -- to legalize the use and sale of recreational marijuana Saturday. Marijuana advocates and consumers celebrated with fireworks and other festivities -- fitting for the July 4 weekend.
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who serves as vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity, sent a letter to every secretary of state in the US this week asking them to send publicly-available data on their voter rolls. The information requested includes: full names of every registered