Last week, the 2016 presidential candidates were required to file financial reports on the donations they’ve received with the Federal Elections Committee (we’ve analyzed that information and presented it in our Money Race Tool).

Although the disclosures contain nothing that suggests the influence of big-money power brokers is waning, they show that small-dollar donors (people giving less than $200) are rewarding candidates with campaigning on populist, anti-establishment rhetoric.

The latest headlines on nonpartisan voting rights from across the nation. Enjoy.

Who Controls Primary Elections, And Who Gets To Vote?  

Source: Jonathan Stahl, Constitution Daily

If you are a Bernie Sanders supporter, you clicked the link to this op-ed, fully prepared to defend your beloved candidate. With a #FeelTheBern hashtag ready to be dispensed, you are here to boldly proclaim that Sanders is not only the right choice for voters, but he is also the only choice.

The governor recently signed a collection of election reform laws in California, including the “New Motor Voter” Act which automates voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles, and a measure that makes rejecting ballots for technical errors more difficult.

Recently, various news services exploded with the fact that retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson has only been part of the Republican Party for less than a year. They questioned his “fitness” to be a candidate if he had been an independent just until October 31, 2014.

IVN has been following the work of Dr. Beth Clarkson, a Wichita State University engineer and statistician who claims that the 2014 Kansas senatorial race (among others) had suspicious trends that indicate tampering of the electronic voting machines.

Maine electoral reformers delivered over 70,000 signatures, mostly gathered by volunteers, to the Maine secretary of state on Monday in Augusta. The Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, a grassroots group of Maine citizens, has garnered broad support from across the political spectrum, all with a singular focus: uphold majority rule and give voters a stronger voice in elections.

The most recent scuffle over congressional redistricting in Virginia illustrates how poor a job single-winner districts do at achieving meaningful elections with fair results.

Earlier this year, now-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proposed a bill to spend $1 trillion over a five-year period in order to "rebuild America’s crumbling network of roads, bridges and transit systems." Yet his refrain about the need to repair the nation's "crumbling infrastructure" invites the basic question, just how bad is America's infrastructure?

Much effort has been put into making the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal into the largest trade agreement in the history of the United States. It is that expansiveness and the president’s imprint of the rule-making process that has some Republicans calling it “Obamatrade.”