National Open Ballot Project
The National Open Ballot Project was formerly known as the New Majority Education Fund. When it was the New Majority Education Fund, it was a project of the Tides Center. It is now a project of the Progressive America Fund.
Transition from NMEF
The New Majority Education Fund was a project of the Tides Center. It was affiliated with the New Party.
Its website is archived back to December 6, 1998, when it was a site titled, "Social Justice Jobs." It shared that it was a project with the Progressive Organizing Program and Democracy Summer, which as projects of the New Majority Fund and Tides Center.
On February 6, 2007, the website transitioned to the National Open Ballot Project.
Fusion
The National Open Ballot Project champions electoral fusion, a formerly legal voting procedure throughout the United States in the 19th century. It allows the candidate to list themselves as a major party candidate on some state ballots and as a third party candidate on other state ballots. It was used especially by Populists, the Citizens Party, the Union Party, and others.
Currently, it is legal in eight states and commonly used in New York and Connecticut alone.[1]