'parties are essential organizing institutions in any modern democracy.'

#FusionVoting 🗳️ is the antidote to the winner-take-all electoral system, solves the wasted vote or spoiler dilemmas that otherwise plague third parties, and allows citizens who identify as independent to participate constructively in politics. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org

New Jersey voters:
1️⃣ understand that the two-party system is undermining our #democracy —and that it will not self-correct
2️⃣ are unhappy with the two major parties and want to vote for alternatives
3️⃣ broadly support the reinstatement of #FusionVoting
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The American Labor Party was founded, in part, to assist FDR in 1936. In New York, a candidate can appear on the ballot under multiple parties (fusion voting). The ALP's endorsement meant FDR's name appeared twice. Nearly 1 in 10 votes for FDR in NY were cast on the ALP line.

Hear from Nolan McCarty about how #FusionVoting 🗳️ played a central role in U.S. politics for the first 125 years of our nation’s history. Fusion Voting offers a compelling way for parties to represent voters sick and tired of rampant polarization. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org

#FusionVoting is a game changer. It allows candidates to be cross-nominated by multiple parties. This amplifies diverse voices and encourages major parties to adopt more representative stances, leading to a more balanced political environment United Kansas cjonline.com/story/opinion/…

#FusionVoting 🗳️✨ is a practice in which a candidate can appear on the ballot as the nominee of more than one party. WATCH Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 discuss how fusion parties such as United Kansas are critical to a functioning #democracy via Washington Journal. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org

By allowing multiple parties to endorse the same candidate, #FusionVoting 🗳️✨ encourages new parties and promotes collaboration. Let's break free from the duopoly and embrace fusion voting as a catalyst for a truly representative #democracy Ben Raderstorf ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-invisibl…

We need a democracy thatserves us, the voters, rather than the biggest donors.

Congress must pass the Freedom to Vote Act to protect and expand our voting rights.

#FusionVoting is a good enough catalyst for change that a couple of weeks ago, our new party filed petitions signed by more than 35,000 everyday Kansans from across the political spectrum.

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Voting is about individual and community power.

Fusion voting would help maximize the power of every vote.

Read more on why we must end the ban on fusion voting in NJ in this piece by my colleague Liza Weisberg: aclu-nj.org/en/news/fusion…

Don't miss this excellent piece by Daniel Stid in National Affairs:
'A development that could help seed new state and local parties, revitalize existing ones, and reinforce pluralism is expanding the use of fusion voting...'
#fusionvoting

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In our latest series of essays, oscar pocasangre provides a descriptive analysis of how fusion voting has unfolded in New York and Connecticut at the congressional level. Check it out here: newamerica.org/political-refo…

More parties, as other essays here argue, could also be better parties that do more than fundraising but engage people around shared interests and ideas. And might help overcome the hostility to parties that becomes skepticism about democracy itself. newamerica.org/political-refo…

Fusion allows parties to cross-endorse candidates from other parties or run their own. Alternate parties can have influence w/o necessarily being spoilers. It's why more parties emerged and merged in the 1900s, before most states banned the practice. newamerica.org/political-refo…

We could have more than two meaningful political parties in the US. And more parties would be better. As this new collection of essays from Political Reform shows, it wouldn't require a constitutional change. Fusion voting would be a start: newamerica.org/political-refo…

Fusion voting was once legal & common in NJ, and we had a vibrant multi-party democracy. Eventually, though, the two dominant parties started to weaken the minor parties and NJ outlawed fusion. But there is now a movement to get it back in the Garden State go.shr.lc/3sCD5Si

Re-legalizing fusion voting — where multiple political parties nominate the same candidate on the ballot — would also be a powerful step toward a multiparty democracy and would allow for a uniquely American version of proportional representation. protectdemocracy.org/work/fusion-vo…

We can break this doom loop by adopting reforms that can move us towards a multiparty democracy, specifically 1⃣ proportional representation and 2⃣ fusion voting.

It was the norm in the US until the 20th century when the two major parties snuffed it out to exert their control over candidates and voters.