Independent Voter News covers elections, voter rights, and political reform from a nonpartisan perspective. Journalism that ...

Independent firefighter Mike Thurow is taking on a Republican incumbent in an R+8 Wisconsin district—and early polling suggests voters may be more open to his candidacy than they are to a Democrat.

After a legislative effort to require party registration stalled, the Alabama GOP made closing its primaries an official ...

Democratic National Committee are close to adopting a ranked choice voting ban in the 2028 presidential primary, despite its ...

CA's primary turnout record was powered by Latino independents. So why are party insiders trying to shut the door behind them ...

California's nonpartisan Top Two primary brought record Latino turnout in the 2026 governor's race. Now party insiders are pushing to repeal it, which strategist Mike Madrid warns would silence the ...

South Dakota is now the third Senate race where a Democrat cleared the field for an independent. David Roth exited in Idaho for Todd Achilles and Cindy Burbank withdrew in Nebraska ahead of Dan Osborn ...

A new statewide poll shows New Yorkers overwhelmingly support open primaries and reforms to give independent candidates a ...

Jay Field is a writer, reporter, audio producer and the creator of Unorganized Territory on Substack. A former award-winning public radio journalist, Jay has worked at NPR stations in San Francisco, ...

Independent Voter News covers elections, voter rights, and political reform from a nonpartisan perspective. Journalism that ...

Maine and Washington, D.C. may still use ranked ballots, but Democrats would allocate delegates as though voters never ranked ...

Closed primaries do not protect party purity—they force independent voters to register with parties they do not believe in ...