Six independent candidates for Senate and the House lost in the 2024 midterm elections, while Alaska's race remains undecided ...

The court wanted to know why Secretary of State Benjamin M. Lepak did not explain why he rejected nearly 58,000 signatures in support of nonpartisan open primaries.

California is spending more than two-thirds of the $1.2 billion raised nationally for 2026 ballot measure campaigns, with ...

From November 2 to November 4, IVN brings the only live election coverage built around independent voters: the races they ...

That is the real reason Trump hates Alaska: the state’s election system makes cross-party coalitions count, and the White House keeps pushing to repeal it. Nevertheless, it appears the Democrats may ...

Dirty tricks like recruiting same-name candidates to split votes has a history not limited to a single state or party. But it ...

Before approving a one-time tax on the wealth of billionaires who lived in the state at a certain point in time, Californians ...

FairVote's analysis of 7,500 elections over 25 years found recounts changed the outcome just three times. Experts say ...

As Republicans cry foul over a same-name candidate in the Senate race, independent Bill Hill says anonymous texts are ...

IVN is a co-publication of two nonpartisan nonprofits, the Independent Voter Project (IVP) and the Foundation for Independent ...

Rey David López-Calderón is a longtime reform advocate, former executive director of California Common Cause, and currently a strategic advisor to the Independent Voter Project.

Drawing on his childhood surrounded by gang culture in Los Angeles, reform advocate Rey David López-Calderón explains why California's effort to repeal the Top Two primary is about more than elections ...