There is growing consensus among pro-voter reformers that when we discuss comprehensive solutions to provide voters with better elections, primary election reform has to be a part of the conversation. 

As it stands, millions of voters nationwide have no meaningful voice in the elections process because taxpayer-funded partisan primary elections are designed to explicitly give an advantage to the two dominant political parties and their members.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the latest newspaper to publish an endorsement of a constitutional amendment that would end single-party control over redistricting in Virginia and bring transparency to the process. The Times-Dispatch joins other major newspaper endorsements in Virginia, including The Virginian-Pilot, The Washington Post, Daily Press, The Roanoke Times, and others. 

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.

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With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost half the states have now altered some normal laws or regulations to make casting a ballot easier and safer in light of the coronavirus.

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.

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Businesses that finance super PACs could be exploited by foreigners who want to secretly and illegally spend millions to influence American elections, a campaign finance advocacy group warned Wednesday.

BOSTON, MASS. - It looks like former GOP presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld supports bringing ranked choice voting to the commonwealth. He is included on a list of  7 high-profile individuals named honorary co-chairs  of the “Yes on 2” campaign to adopt RCV for state elections.

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The campaign released the names of all of its honorary co-chairs Wednesday, which along with Weld include::

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Scot Faulkner joins host T. J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to discuss his experience as the first Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives and how he views the transitioning nature of our Nation. He shares the inside story of just how corrupt the House was when he was called upon to “fix it” in 1995 and who erected barriers (and why) to limit the change in the second edition of his critically acclaimed bestseller, "Naked Emperors; The Failure of the Republican Revolution.”

ALBANY, N.Y. - The Libertarian Party of New York (LPNY) and Green Party of New York (GPNY) filed a lawsuit against state officials Tuesday for new ballot access restrictions the parties say were passed under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic to kick third parties off the ballot and keep them off.

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher.

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Four states are on the cusp of approving anti-gerrymandering petitions for the November ballot, but challenges still remain.

Ranked choice voting (RCV) opponents tried to repeal RCV for state primaries and non-presidential federal elections in Maine. They failed. They tried to have a federal court throw out RCV results in the 2018 general election. They failed. They tried to garner enough signatures for a people’s veto against RCV for presidential elections. They failed.

Yet the motto of RCV opponents in Maine apparently is if at first you don’t succeed at overturning the will of the people, try, try, try, try, and try again.