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The February 2020 Elections Territorial Poll
Pasquines is proud to announce the first of our 2020 polls, open starting today to all residents of the United States territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. This is the first ever poll to...
Verified Voting on a mission to secure elections
Verified Voting is a “non-partisan non-profit organization that advocates for legislation and regulation that promotes accuracy, transparency, and verifiability of elections.” Its primary concern is ensuring that the means for verifying...
RepresentUS ignores US territories in campaign
RepresentUs was launched as a non-profit organization in 2012 by founder Josh Silver, with a non-partisan aim of combatting legalized corruption in US politics. Its model is inspired by the 2011 American Anti-Corruption Act, which aimed to...
Puerto Rico to hold Democratic presidential primary in March
As one of his final acts in office, former Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló (NPP, D) signed Senate Bill 1323 on August 2, which moves-up the date of the Democratic presidential primary from the first Sunday in June to the last Sunday in...
Ricardo Rosselló makes case for re-election
On March 2, the incumbent Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló announced his intention to seek a second term in office. As the presumptive nominee of the New Progressive Party, Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood party, Rosselló has begun his...
Guam’s political landscape doesn’t fall neatly into the Democrat-Republican binary
Guamanian politics don’t follow the same party lines as mainland America’s two major parties, despite those two parties being the dominant political parties on the island. The Guam Legislature currently has 10 Democrat members and 5 Republican...
Carmen Yulin Cruz announces run for Puerto Rico governor
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (PDP) officially announced that she will run for Governor of Puerto Rico, challenging incumbent governor Ricardo Rosselló (NPP, D). The announcement took place on the Puerto Rican holiday of Emancipation Day, commemorating...
Voterfied could help solve some of democracy’s biggest problems
A democracy relies on participation, and participation rates in the US these days are low. Many people feel that candidates and officeholders don’t listen to them and that their voice doesn’t matter, so they don’t even bother getting involved....
America’s most conservative Democratic governor is in Puerto Rico
The 2018 midterms grew the ranks of the Democratic Governors Association with 9 new members: 7 from states and 2 from the territories, each representing a flip to Democratic control. Nearly half, or 11 out of 25, were sworn in for the first...
Blue wave extends to Guam, US Virgin Islands, as American Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands reelect Republicans
On November 6, residents of most US territories went to the polls to select their governors and Territorial Delegates to the US House of Representatives. Puerto Rico is the only territory to not have had any contests during 2018. Following the...