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Let's Make Every Vote Count
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Author(s): Katrina vanden Heuvel
- Publication: The Nation
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine, highlights FairVote's research in an important piece on the "broad support" growing in the states for the National Popular Vote plan to elect the president. -
No more appointed senators
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Author(s): David Segal
- Publication: Baltimore Sun
- Categories: FairVote
FairVote's David Segal argues for an end to the filling of Senate vacancies by appointment, and supports a national movement to have those vacancies filled through democratic elections. -
Representative Democracy: Two Steps Forward
- Posted: May 13, 2009
- Author(s): John Burbank
- Publication: The Daily Herald
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
The executive director of the Economic Opportunity Institute heralds the passage of the National Popular Vote bill in Washington state. -
The Supreme Court's Hostility to the Voting Rights Act
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Instant runoff voting gets Supreme Court hearing
- Posted: May 13, 2009
- Author(s): Curtis Gilbert
- Publication: Minnesota Public Radio
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Coverage of the Minnesota Supreme Court case on ranked choice voting's constitutionality. -
Bill promotes teen voter registration
- Posted: May 11, 2009
- Author(s): Tonya Jameson
- Publication: The Charlotte Observer
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
North Carolina's bi-partisan 16-year-old advance registration and civics education bill unanimously passed the Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform committee last week. -
Political Newcomers Set Sights on November
- Posted: May 10, 2009
- Author(s): Tracy Clemons
- Publication: NBC 29
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Article on the Charlottesville, VA Democrats' first use of instant runoff voting for their city council and sheriff open caucus. -
Charlottesville Democrats nominate Norris and Szakos for City Council
- Posted: May 9, 2009
- Author(s): Brian Wheeler
- Publication: Charlottesville Tomorrow
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
The Charlottesville, VA Democratic party held its first ever City Council and Sheriff open caucus using instant runoff voting. -
Audit of Aspen's election shows no holes in system
- Posted: May 8, 2009
- Author(s): Carolyn Sackariason
- Publication: Aspen Times
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting
An audit of Aspen's first instant runoff voting election showed that the system had run perfectly. -
IRV appears to have worked, but the debate continues
- Posted: May 7, 2009
- Author(s): Curtis Wackerle
- Publication: Aspen Daily News
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting
Aspen Daily News' analysis of how instant runoff voting worked in Aspen's first election using the system.