Presidential primaries are supposed to measure voter support. Too often, they measure who survived the calendar. Reform leader @Rob_Richie writes that ranked choice ballots could make sure voters aren’t punished for backing candidates who drop out too soon. #RankedChoiceVoting #ElectionReform #RCV #PrimaryElections ivn.us/presidential-primarie…

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ Trump called it fraud. California called it counting. The real story in LA isn’t stolen votes — it’s legal ballot harvesting, billionaire money, and a turnout machine most voters never see coming. #IndependentVoters #CaliforniaPolitics #LAMayor #TopTwoPrimary ivn.us/podcasts/trump-says-f…

More on Maine’s primary. It’s not what right looks like. But it’s better than most.

Maine did something most states refuse to do: It let independent voters into the primary without forcing them to join a party — then used ranked choice voting to make candidates earn broader support. IVN Editor @ThatShawnG reports on this story. #OpenPrimaries #RankedChoiceVoting #IndependentVoters #Maine #ElectionReform ivn.us/maine-let-independent…

Buffalo City Hall tried to stop voters from even getting a say on open primaries, ranked choice voting, and better ballot access. The Charter Revision Commission didn’t fold. Now the question is whether voters will get the final word. #OpenPrimaries #RankedChoiceVoting #ElectionReform #Buffalo ivn.us/buffalo-city-hall-tri…

"The message from New Mexico's first semi-open primary was strong: New Mexico independents were never apathetic. They were excluded." - @OpenPrimaryUSA #OpenPrimaries #IndependentVoters #ElectionReform #NewMexico ivn.us/the-myth-of-independe…

57,841 signatures were tossed in Oklahoma for open primaries. No list of which signatures. No clear explanation of why. No transparency for the voters challenging the count. The state' open primary fight is now in the state Supreme Court. #OpenPrimaries #LetUsVote #ElectionTransparency #Oklahoma ivn.us/oklahoma-rejected-nea…

National media is obsessed with Graham Platner’s scandals. But @Smart_Campaigns writes that Maine’s bigger story is what ranked choice voting is doing to campaigns: Candidates asking for second choices, building alliances, and treating voters like adults. #RankedChoiceVoting #Maine #ElectionReform ivn.us/maines-best-political…

Independent Mississippi Sen candidate @TyPinkins says the problem in Washington isn’t that solutions don’t exist. It’s that both parties are too tied to big money to deliver them. IVN author Matt Shinners reports that Pinkins is running against the system that keeps voters locked out. #IndependentVoters #Election2026 #MoneyInPolitics ivn.us/ty-pinkins-makes-the-…

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“The Last Trusted Americans: Veterans Lead the Way in Independent Campaigns.” “Veterans carry a credibility that no party label can manufacture, and at a moment when nearly every institution has shed public trust, it is the one identity that still commands broad, cross-partisan respect.” ivn.us/the-last-trusted-amer… Thank you to @ivn for telling the important story of @IndyVetsAmerica. Our 2026 goal is 100 independent vets. Our longterm goal is a movement to save, protect and defend our democracy. Independent vets are the political calvary America has been waiting for. Leave the partisan herds. Run with the pack.🚨🇺🇸🐺

What did the voters say in the California Primary ? Talking with… thesanfranciscoexperiencepod… @ChadPeace @ivn @dpna @samsinger

IVN Author Matt Shinners interviewed independent US Senate candidate Todd Achilles, who says Congress isn’t broken because of one party. It’s broken because both parties are incentivized to protect themselves first. Now he’s running for US Senate in Idaho as an independent to help break their grip. #IndependentVoters #Idaho #USSenate #Election2026 ivn.us/todd-achilles-says-th…

New Mexico’s first semi-open primary may not have produced an independent voter stampede to the polls. However, it produced something more important: proof that voters will participate when the system stops shutting them out. #OpenPrimaries #IndependentVoters #ElectionReform #NMPol ivn.us/new-mexicos-first-sem…

California’s vote count didn't end on election night, and IVN Editor @ThatShawnG explains that’s not automatically a sign of something nefarious. Mail ballots, signature checks, ballot curing, provisional ballots, and audits all take time. The real danger is when campaigns weaponize the wait. #CaliforniaPrimary #Election2026 #VoteByMail ivn.us/why-does-it-take-cali…

Spencer Pratt may be the headline. But the real story is voter anger. @PaulRieckhoff says Pratt has become a vessel for frustration with the party in power— and nonpartisan primaries give voters the power to show it. #LosAngeles #IndependentVoters #OpenPrimaries #Election2026 ivn.us/paul-rieckhoff-spence…

NEW PODCAST: Party insiders tried to turn California’s Top Two primary into a fear campaign. Then voters voted. The panic collapsed. The system worked. And independent voters mattered. #OpenPrimaries #IndependentVoters #CaliforniaPolitics #TopTwoPrimary ivn.us/podcasts/critics-prov…

For months, party insiders warned California’s Top Two primary would break democracy. Then voters showed up and proved the consultant class wrong. @OpenPrimaryUSA says the doomsday scenario wasn’t analysis. It was manipulation dressed up as political insight. #TopTwoPrimary #IndependentVoters #CaliforniaPolitics ivn.us/the-top-two-panic-was…

In LA, @spencerpratt is running a campaign focused on the anger and frustration many voters have with City Hall. @PaulRieckhoff explains this is what a lot of voters are looking for right now—a 'vessel' to channel anger with Trump, Democrats, city government, all of it. And in the city's nonpartisan primary, voters were free to act on that frustration. #LosAngeles #LAMayor #IndependentVoters #OpenPrimaries #CaliforniaPolitics ivn.us/paul-rieckhoff-spence…

CA governor’s race raised a serious question, writes @Smart_Campaigns: Would candidates spend less time tearing each other apart if more than two advanced to November? That’s the argument behind #MoreChoice Voting. Check the link for more. #CAPolitics #ElectionReform #IndependentVoters #TopTwoPrimary ivn.us/california-wanted-a-g…