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BREAKING: HB1, legislation to close New Hampshire’s open primary has been defeated!
BREAKING: A New Mexico House bill proposal would no longer require voters to register into a party to participate in primaries. Adopting open primaries in New Mexico would open up the process to 300,000 more voters!
Bonner County Daily Bee: The GOP in Idaho continue to tighten their grip on controlling who gets to vote and who doesn’t in taxpayer funded primaries.
New York: The campaign to get rid of partisan primaries in NYC has officially launched!
RSVP: Our Virtual Discussion Series RETURNS Wed 1/18 at 2pm ET w/ The Accelerating Demand to Let all Voters Vote: Meet the Citizen Activists Championing Primary Reform
CS Monitor: Inside the Alaska model for US politics
Nebraska Examiner: Nebraska legislators should remember the vision of George W. Norris
BREAKING: Oregon’s open primary measure for 2024 has received a ballot title!
CNN: Michael Smerconish thinks more leaders should follow Sinema’s lead, embrace political independence in solidarity with millions of independent Americans, and let all voters vote.
Inquirer.com: If Philadelphia wants better turnout a first step would be to open the primaries to ALL voters.
BREAKING: The GOP in Texas is proposing moving to a CLOSED primary process–this would lock out MILLIONS of Texas and have national political ramifications,
NBC News: Independent voters are the fastest growing bloc of voters in the country and in the next 15 years will be the 2nd largest or largest bloc in a majority of states–we need a political process that treats them as legitimate voters. We need open primaries.
WATCH: South Dakota Open Primaries’ Joe Kirby discusses push to get an open primaries ballot measure on the 2024 ballot
WATCH: Our latest virtual discussion w/ David Holt and Danny Ortega: An Alternative Look at the Midterm Elections.
RealClearPolitics PA: Bills to ensure all voters can vote in all elections are gaining traction in PA
REGISTER: Our final virtual discussion of 2022 is happening Wed. 12/4: An Alternative Look at the Midterm Elections: a discussion w/ David Holt (Mayor of OKC) & Civil Rights Advocate Danny Ortega.
Arkansas Online: a proposal to close the primaries in Arkansas has been DEFEATED by Common Ground AR–thanks for mobilizing and protecting AR voters!
BREAKING: South Dakota Open Primaries is officially pushing for a constitutional amendment to allow South Dakotans to vote in a top two open primary system:
WATCH: Young voters turned out big in 2020. What motivates them, and what do they think about how our system works? A Conversation w/ the Forward Party, Students for Open Primaries and Open Primaries.
NPR: Nevadans vote to open the primaries to ALL Nevadans! Voters need to approve the measure once more in 2024 but they’re one step closer to letting all voters vote!
NewsNation: Watch OP President John Opdycke talk with Chris Cuomo about the origin of primaries and what we’re up against working to let all voters vote.
Tulsa World: Margaret Kobos & Ross Swimmer call on Oklahomans to take action and REPEAL closed primaries.
Reno Gazette Journal: Nevada’s Gambling on Democracy
WATCH: How Independents Can Save American Democracy (w/ Jackie Salit, Thom Reilly & John Opdycke)
Arkansas Online: Arkansas voters will decide whether it will take 60% of voters to pass proposed constitutional amendments
PBS: OP Senior VP Jeremy Gruber is featured in this piece on why we need to start paying attention to the partisanization of our election administration & the threat this holds for our Democracy
PBS: OP Senior VP Jeremy Gruber is featured in this piece on why we need to start paying attention to the partisanization of our election administration & the threat this holds for our Democracy
Washingt0n Post: Side effect of divisive politics? Unaffiliated voter numbers rise.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Pennsylvania invented the direct primary. Now it’s time to fix them.
AZ PBS: OP Senior VP Jeremy Gruber & ASU’s Thom Reilly on why nonpartisan election administration might not be the norm and how the parties have prioritized their power at the exclusion of everyone else.
Have you registered for our next virtual discussion yet? Tuesday. November 1st. 2pm ET.
The Hill: The constitution is not the problem with America today.
The Wall Street Journal: Alaska’s old primary system would have disqualified 74% of AK voters from participating. Their new nonpartisan system gives EVERY Alaskan a voice:
Tuscon.com: Are we doing primaries all wrong?
Forbes: A Majority of Americans Think Democracy is in Trouble
MERCURY NEWS: The Threat to Democracy No One is Talking About
ATTN: Register for our next Virtual Discussion: Declaration of Independents: Veterans Sound Off on Repealing Closed Primaries—Friday 10/21 at 2PM EST–RSVP HERE!
New York Sun: The New Voter Suppression–Locking Independents Out of Primaries
THE INTELLEGENCER: State Senator Collett: Protecting our right to vote and expanding it for independents
THE NEVADA INDEPENDENT: Open primaries are needed now that the two-party system has failed
AZ Central: Don’t like your choices in November? Then let’s fix Arizona’s broken election process
OKLAHOMANS: Sign up to volunteer with Oklahoma United at the Tulsa State Fair! Help register people to vote & sign the UNMUTE OK petition. 9/29-10/9
AZ Capitol Times: Independent voters are the ones deciding general elections yet they’re underrepresented in our primaries with candidates catering to the partisan base. Nonpartisan primaries would eliminate the “campaign pivot”
Nevada 2022: Betting Big on Reform–WATCH THE FULL DISCUSSION:
ABQ Journal: Read Bob Perls’ latest piece: Elections should have us all on same team – the voting team
Oregon Capital Chronicle: Unaffiliated voters & candidates deserve a fair & equal playing field. All Oregon Votes is working to get a constitutional amendment on the Oregon ballot in 2024 to finally address this
Citrus Chronicle: Lawmakers Need to Address Flaws of Florida’s Closed Primaries:
