link: http://www.independentvoterproject.org/
Who We Are
About the Independent Voter Project
The Independent Voter Project (“IVP”) launched in 2006 with a $1 million grant from John Moores and a directive to identify and execute a strategy to reverse the trend toward dysfunction bred by an increasingly polarized political environment.
IVP conducted large scale, in-election studies during the 2006 and 2008 California elections, in which a broad spectrum of common political communication strategies were tested against alternative approaches in an effort to learn how to increase voter participation amongst independent and “non base” partisan voters. In doing so, IVP identified 3 million “non-base” voters in California as “high-value” communication targets.
But, perhaps the most important lesson learned through this process was that political consultants were severely hampered by a tendency to look at non-base voters through their own partisan lens. In one experiment, IVP took identical information and transcripts from two focus groups and asked a Republican pollster and a Democratic pollster to analyze the data and write a summary. The pollsters reached opposite conclusions from the exact same information, conclusions that matched their respective political preferences.
At the conclusion of the 2008 election, IVP initiated a plan to place a Nonpartisan Open Primary proposal on the 2010 primary ballot. IVP hired the law firm of Nielsen Merksemer, two litigation specialists, and two Constitutional Law experts to draft the measure. IVP Co-chairs Dan Howle and Steve Peace directly supervised this effort.
more information at the link:
http://www.independentvoterproject.org/who_we_areThe video is very good about explaining the history of voting in U.S.A. and the way voting is today.
They are incorrect about the 1887 voting laws, they needed to add a person needed to be a
landowner in addition to being white, male, and over 21 years of age.
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