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Open Primaries for Every Voter
Over 26 million Americans are locked out of primary elections simply because they refuse to join a political party. IVP is leading the fight to change that.
More Choice Voting
When elections offer only two viable choices, voters settle. More Choice Voting advances reforms that expand the field, increase competition, and force candidates to earn broader support.
End Super PACs
74.9% of Maine voters said yes to capping Super PAC donations at $5,000. Now we're defending that law in court — and building the legal framework to take the fight to all 50 states.
30 million Americans are locked out of their primaries.
In 15 states, closed primaries shut independents out of the first — and often only — meaningful round of voting. IVP and Open Primaries are running a national petition to open them. Add your name.
openmyprimary.org — a project of IVP and Open Primaries
We authored California's Top-Two Primary.
Proposition 14 changed how California elects its leaders — and we wrote it. Now we're taking what works to the rest of the country.
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