About GIV
Who we are:
Our network of independents in Georgia is diverse. We work with and are inspired by the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, Inc. (CUIP), a national strategy center and organizing hub that designs, executes and supports cutting edge tactics to develop America’s growing independent movement. CUIP mounts political, legal, legislative and organizing challenges to partisan control of the political process and has pioneered methods of organizing independents without a political party, creating independent voter associations to project the voice of the 35% plus of the electorate that considers itself independent.
Independents are not “swing voters” who exist to be wooed and swayed by one or the other major party. Independents have strongly held beliefs about how partisanship and ideological labeling are corrupting and constraining progress. Independents defy traditional political labels.
America’s independent voters are concerned about the corruption in our government – 90% indicate that the reason they became independent is because they view the system to be broken. Most support legislative efforts directed toward political reform that will make government more honest and recognize more voters’ voices. Independents share support for radical structural reform of the electoral process and of government.