Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has released a report with recommendations to make her state’s elections run more smoothly. Taking suggestions from the Brennan Center for Justice’s Lawrence Norden, the Ohio Association of Elections Officials, the County Commissioners Association of Ohio and election administration experts in her office, she has put together a list [...]

FairVote’s analysis team has come up with ten surprising stories about Election ’08. Enjoy!
1.    Electoral Reform on the Ballot – New Victories and Implementations for Instant Runoff Voting:  This November’s ballot measures showed that Americans are ready to transform our politics. Landslide majorities voted for spoiler-free, majority elections through instant runoff voting (IRV) in Memphis, [...]

Students have traditionally had a tough time getting to the polls on Election Day, but this year could be different. With record rates of voter registration and high anticipated turnout, the 18-24 year old demographic could swing the election. But the Washington Post reports students at George Mason University in northern Virginia woke up to [...]

Today, FairVote released its third in a series of reports highlighting potential problems in swing states on Election Day. The newest report focuses on Colorado, a state that has been safely “red” in recent years and has only gone Democratic once since 1964 (Clinton won in 1992). Western states like Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada [...]