By disrupting a winner-take-all electoral system, ranked choice voting is an important step toward strengthening America’s imperiled democracy. But if it is not accompanied by better-informed citizens, elections will continue to devolve into contests where misinformation, money and celebrity win out over truthfulness, integrity and competence. The mission of InformYourVote.org  is to facilitate a social media-powered 21st-century fairness doctrine that brings transparency, accountability and...

NEW YORK, May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- InformYourVote.org, today launched the most convenient voter literacy website ever created for the city's first ranked choice election. The innovative Candidates Video Debate format allows New York voters to easily compare 102 short videos of mayoral candidates answering the same questions in a pundit-free environment. InformYourVote.org is a partnership between the democratizing media non-profit Informing to Empower and New York's Bella Abzug Leadership...

SEBASTOPOL, Calif., Oct. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, the non-profit Informing to Empower launched a vastly expanded Candidates Video Debate covering the most important races of the 2020 election. These include the Presidential and Vice Presidential contests, as well as the top eight hotly-contested Senate races for Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, and South Carolina.   The format presents minute-long videos of every candidate answering every...

Indiana Town Halls and WFYI Productions announced that a Fifth District Congressional Town Hall will be live streamed and broadcast on WFYI Public TV Indianapolis on Tuesday, Sept. 22 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The most hotly contested Congressional race in Indiana features Democrat Christina Hale and Republican Victoria Spartz. They are pursuing an open seat created by the pending retirement of Republican Susan Brooks. Jim Shella, former political reporter for WISH-TV and former host of Indiana...

Released: September 8, 2020 Indiana Town Halls and WFYI Productions today announced that a Fifth District Congressional Town Hall will be live streamed and broadcast on WFYI Public TV Indianapolis on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 from 7 to 8 PM. The most hotly contested Congressional race in Indiana features Democrat Christina Hale and Republican Victoria Spartz. They are pursuing an open seat created by the pending retirement of Republican Susan Brooks. Jim Shella, former political reporter for...

The coronavirus struck during the beginning of the primary election season and political debates were among the first events affected. Many debates were cancelled, while other important congressional debates are now being held virtually as moderated Zoom events. A ground-breaking new web platform called the Candidates Video Debate recently launched to help voters more easily access candidate videos and conveniently share them over their social networks. The “democratizing media” platform is...

INDIANAPOLIS, May 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A unique collaboration between Indiana Town Halls, WFYI public television and the non-partisan, non-profit Informing to Empower today announced that Indiana's first-ever virtual congressional primary Town Hall is now viewable on the innovative new Candidates Video Debate platform. "Our focus--the suburban Indianapolis 5th District--is a purple district with no incumbent and is the first competitive Indiana congressional race in decades," stated Les...

ATLANTA, May 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In collaboration with the Atlanta Press Club's prestigious Loudermilk-Young Debate Series, the non-profit Informing to Empower today launched the Candidates Video Debate, a non-partisan democratizing media platform, for seven different Republican and Democratic congressional primary debates in Georgia. The innovative web format breaks existing debates into minute-long videos of every candidate answering every question asked of them and presents these in a...

SEBASTOPOL, Calif., March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Informing to Empower has launched the Candidates Video Debate, a non-partisan democratizing media platform. The mission of the non-profit CandidatesVideoDebate.com is to bring transparency, accountability and integrity to an electoral process now corrupted by political advertising paid for by corporate and special interest donors. Our free website does this by creating easily accessible, two-minute videos of every candidate answering every...