We hope folks living in the Twin Cities area and in Minneapolis for the big National Conference on Media Reform will join us for a terrific day of electoral reform workshops and a star-studded plenary finale in the early evening next Thursday, June 5th - including Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, The Nation’s John Nichols, In These Times’ Joel Bleifuss prize-winning novelist (Devil in a Blue Dress, etc) Walter Mosley and Common Cause president Bob Edgar. See the latest at our conference website Claim Democracy. The registration deadline approaches!

Thanks to Free Press and our conference partners Citizens for Election Integrity, Common Cause, FairVote Minnesota, League of Women Voters of Minnesota, Liberty Tree and Public Campaign

Other posts by Rob Richie

• Founding FairVote backer and Cincinnati legend Harris Weston dies - July 4th, 2009
• Sarah Palin's resignation to reduce women governors to six - July 3rd, 2009
• Delaware house votes 2 to 1 for National Popular Vote - 29th chamber in 18th state - June 24th, 2009
• Obama's political team: Expediency over principle in "working" Electoral College rather than reforming it - June 21st, 2009
• Special interests upset with instant runoff voting in San Francisco - and broader lessons - June 21st, 2009
• FairVote chair Krist Novoselic makes key point about rights of association in candidacy - June 17th, 2009
• Brennan Center's new report on universal registration joins FairVote in highlighting Canadian model - June 16th, 2009
• Instant runoff voting in Australia: Guest blogger Ben Raue - June 16th, 2009
• Washington, D.C. City council has chance to make D.C. a "beacon of democracy" - June 13th, 2009
• Slamdunk win in Minnesota Supreme Court highlights big week for instant runoff voting - June 12th, 2009