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New York City can move forward with its debut of ranked elections in seven weeks, because a state judge has turned back arguments the system would effectively disenfranchise minority voters.
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More than half of the early voting centers in Georgia's third largest county have been shuttered ahead of the high-stakes Senate runoffs next month.
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Next year's redistricting landscape is, at best, a mixed bag for good-governance advocates. Although the mapmaking process has become fairer and less politicized in a handful of states over the past decade, partisan gerrymandering will still have a profound impact on representation across most of the country.
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The wall of official resistance to President Trump's defeat has started to crumble a bit.
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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.
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All across the country, the consistent theme of this presidential year has been turmoil.
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October is the last chance for most Americans to register if they want to vote for president this year. But 86 million eligible Americans, or one-third of the national total, can even sign up — and then proceed to cast a ballot — on Election Day.
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Preemptive and premature declarations of presidential victory won't be possible on Facebook anymore.