America’s political system is broken. We are a cross-partisan nonprofit project that protects and strengthens American democracy by reviving #FusionVoting 🗳️
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What we’re trapped in now isn’t just polarization; it’s a kind of political badlands, a two-party doom loop that keeps us running in place.
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Michael Latner argues that fusion voting isn't just a stopgap for single-seat offices that can't be carved into proportional districts. It's a structurally important complement to PR in a country like ours, and perhaps nowhere more clearly than in the U.S. Senate. @Mlsif
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Fusion voting lets multiple parties nominate the same candidate. Instead of spending scarce resources on long-shot campaigns, smaller parties can negotiate endorsements, influence major-party platforms, and build political power while keeping their own identity. @MattMillerMLive @MLive
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Fusion voting could give smaller parties real power without splitting the vote. Instead of acting as spoilers, parties could endorse major candidates on separate ballot lines — building visible coalitions in Senate, gubernatorial, and presidential races. @ezraklein @leedrutman @NYTOpinion @NewAmerica @PolReformNA
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"The short answer hearkens back to Winston Churchill — that the Americans will do the right thing after they've tried everything else."
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Fusion voting has deep roots in American history. After the Civil War, it helped build cross-racial political coalitions by bringing together Black voters and white working-class voters in the South. For a brief moment, those alliances expanded democracy. @hmcghee
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Fusion voting used to be legal across the United States — and efforts are growing to bring it back. Advocates are fighting to re-legalize fusion voting in states like Kansas and Wisconsin so smaller parties can endorse major candidates without acting as spoilers. @gelliottmorris @leedrutman @newamerica @PolReformNA
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"We are the only major democracy in the world that seats only two parties in its legislature. It was a poorly performing party. There was a leadership crisis. These are things that in normal democracies, you would see the governing party replaced with an alternative. The problem in the U.S. is that the only alternative was an authoritarian one."
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Michigan voters are tired of being told that politics must stay locked into the same system that helped produce today’s crisis. @jefftimmer
Fusion voting offers a modest, practical reform: let parties nominate the candidates they choose; let candidates and parties build broader coalitions; let voters express both a candidate preference and a political identity; and let election results reflect where real support actually comes from.
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What if campaign finance reform actually helped build a healthier multiparty democracy?
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Fusion voting gives candidates the ability to run on multiple ballot lines, helping new coalitions emerge without “spoiler” fears. Pair that with smarter campaign finance rules, and you create incentives for cooperation instead of polarization. leedrutman.substack.com/p/ca…?
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The Supreme Court’s Callais decision is a watershed moment. Political Science Professor and Harvard Law School Research Director Michael Latner argues the only path forward runs through party-centric reforms: ProRep with a side of Fusion Voting.
The twenty-first episode with Michael Latner launched on Monday, June 8th.
Watch now: centerforballotfreedom.org/t…
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Fusion voting can strengthen the political center without creating a “mushy middle.” It makes disagreement more visible and organized, and allows more precise political expression. @jefftimmer
A voter could support the same candidate as a major-party voter, but for different reasons and under a different party line. That isn’t confusion—it’s intentional, meaningful choice.
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Michigan could become the latest state to challenge century-old bans on fusion voting. @MattMillerMLive
The reform would allow multiple parties to endorse the same candidate on separate ballot lines, giving voters more choices while helping smaller parties build influence without acting as spoilers. @MLive mlive.com/politics/2026/05/m…
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Fusion voting could create a legal pathway for voters and parties to build cross-ideological coalitions around shared commitments—democracy, constitutional order, competence, moderation, and reform—without forcing every voter to collapse their political identity into one of two major-party brands. @jefftimmer
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Fusion Voting just makes common sense. It is time to stop having just two parties that can win elections. It is time for a movement. Libertarians need an equal chance at winning.
Fusion voting gives smaller parties another option: support a viable candidate without giving up their own identity, message, or ballot line. @jefftimmer
That means voters can back a candidate who can actually win and vote for the party that best reflects their values. In short, fusion voting lets people say more with their vote—without “throwing it away.”
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Michigan just became the latest front in the fight to restore fusion voting. A new lawsuit challenges the state’s ban on cross-nomination, arguing voters should be able to support coalition-building parties without “spoiling” elections. @jefftimmer @markbrewer @lpmi ballot-access.org/2026/05/22…
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Fusion voting gives smaller parties another option: support a viable candidate without giving up their own identity, message, or ballot line. @jefftimmer
That means voters can back a candidate who can actually win and vote for the party that best reflects their values. In short, fusion voting lets people say more with their vote—without “throwing it away.”
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America’s democracy doom loop won’t end with “better maps” alone. Solutions like proportional representation AND fusion voting could give voters more real choices, stronger coalitions, and a way out of permanent polarization. @gelliottmorris @leedrutman gelliottmorris.com/p/deep-di…
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